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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Podcast featuring OCDE explains the state’s system for assisting underperforming districts |
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Last year, state officials deployed the new California School Dashboard, giving parents, educators and the community a comprehensive and user-friendly look at how districts and their campuses are performing. The dashboard, available online, offers a ton of information on everything from test scores and graduation rates to parent engagement and school climate. But to paraphrase basically every episode of G.I. Joe from our childhood, knowing is only half the battle. |
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/podcast-highlights-ocdes-role-in-supporting-local-districts/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears ready to sign California’s education plan |
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The State Board of Education will likely approve yet another set of revisions to California’s plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act at its meeting in Sacramento next week — and this time state officials are “very optimistic” that the plan will finally get U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s signature. |
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https://edsource.org/2018/devos-appears-ready-to-sign-californias-education-plan/599927 |
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Low pay for child care workers puts more than half at poverty level, study finds |
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A majority of child care workers in California are paid so little they qualify for public assistance programs, according to a new report on the early education workforce.
Fifty-eight percent of child care workers in California are on one or more public assistance programs, such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a federally funded program that helps pay for food, housing and other expenses, the report by UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment found. This is according to the most recent data by the American Community Survey and Current Population Survey.
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https://edsource.org/2018/low-pay-for-child-care-workers-puts-more-than-half-at-poverty-level/599790 |
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San Francisco school finds key to raising math scores: Teacher training |
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One elementary school in California says it has found the key to turning around persistently stagnant math scores: Heavy investment in teacher preparation, to improve not only classroom instruction but also the overall climate of the school.
San Francisco Unified’s John Muir Elementary, where almost all students are low-income, African-American or Latino, used grant money from the district to hire substitutes so every teacher could be freed up to participate in Common Core math training.
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https://edsource.org/2018/san-francisco-school-finds-key-to-raising-math-scores-teacher-training/599874 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Lawmakers consider expansion of state pre-school program |
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A bill pending in the state Senate would broaden qualifications for state-sponsored pre-school, in hopes more families can take advantage of services already paid for.
Although lawmakers provided $46 million two years ago to open some 9,500 new slots in the program, many districts send back money to the state because not enough qualified students applied.
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https://k-12daily.org/politics-education/lawmakers-consider-expansion-of-state-pre-school-program |
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KPCC
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LA's Schools Are Segregated. LAUSD Says There's Only So Much They Can Do |
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The research is increasingly clear: children of all races learn better in racially-integrated schools. Yet in the Los Angeles Unified School District, more than half of the students — around 289,000 kids — attend a school that's more than 90 percent black and Latino.
Maybe that's not a shock in a district in which white children make up less than one-tenth of the student body — and Latino kids make up nearly three-quarters of it. Still, an outsized share of California's most racially-isolated schools are found in LAUSD.
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http://www.laist.com/2018/07/03/las_schools_are_segregated_lausd_says_theres_only_so_much_they_can_do_about_it.php |
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Trump Administration Rescinds Obama-Era Guidance Encouraging Affirmative Action |
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The White House is withdrawing Obama-era guidance documents that encouraged schools and colleges to promote diversity through their admissions process.
The departments of Justice and Education announced on Tuesday that they have retracted several letters and memos that advised schools on how they could legally consider race in admissions and other decisions.
Education and diversity advocacy groups have reacted with alarm.
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https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/07/03/84459/trump-administration-rescinds-obama-era-guidance-e/ |
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