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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Braille Institute to build new $10 million campus in Anaheim |
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The Braille Institute is replacing its local headquarters with a $10 million, easier-to-navigate campus that will integrate newer technologies into the education of its students. City officials recently approved the institute’s plans to tear down the collection of homes it has turned into offices on North Dale Avenue in southwest Anaheim for the construction of a single, 14,735-square-foot building dubbed the Anaheim Regional Center. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/05/braille-institute-to-build-new-10-million-campus-in-anaheim/ |
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Esperanza High aquatics program receives $5,000 from alumna to replace vandalized, stolen equipment |
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An Esperanza High School alumna donated $5,000 Friday, June 30, to the school’s aquatics program, which was the subject of vandalism and theft last weekend when someone broke into the pool area, destroying and damaging equipment. Jacki Cisneros, a 1988 graduate, and her husband, Gilbert Cisneros, read about the vandalism in the Register, and felt compelled to give back. The pair won California’s Mega Millions jackpot of $266 million in 2010. Since then they’ve given generously to various causes and institutions |
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/30/esperenza-high-aquatics-program-receives-5000-from-alumna-to-replace-vandalized-stolen-equipment/ |
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Unions and school district agree funding formula making raises hard to give |
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Agreements reached with the two unions representing most employees in the Placentia- Yorba Linda school district don’t include salary increases for the just-completed 2016-17 school year, a plight attributed to California’s four-year-old Local Control Funding Formula. And prospects for pay hikes in future years don’t look promising, according to Linda Manion, president of the Association of Placentia-Linda Educators, which represents district teachers in negotiations with school management. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/30/unions-and-school-district-agree-funding-formula-making-raises-hard-to-give/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Student suicide prevention plan in the works for Newport-Mesa schools |
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In line with state legislation, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is expected to launch a program this fall intended to educate district staff members and students on ways to prevent youth suicide. The district board Tuesday unanimously approved the first reading of a new policy directing staff to implement a districtwide suicide prevention program for kindergartners through 12th-graders. |
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http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-suicide-prevention-20170629-story.html |
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Schools are boosting graduation rates by offering 'credit recovery.' But what are students learning? |
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Schools around the country started to amp up credit-recovery efforts 15 years ago, when the federal government began pressuring districts to improve graduation rates. Its heavy use has been criticized, including in New York City, which has the only school district larger than L.A.’s.
Still, graduation rates are popular indicators of district success, and the pressure to increase them is great.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-pass-credit-recovery-20170701-htmlstory.html |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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US schools rethink meal-debt policies that humiliate kids |
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Teaching assistant Kelvin Holt watched as a preschool student fell to the back of a cafeteria line during breakfast in Killeen, Texas, as if trying to hide.
"The cash register woman says to this 4-year-old girl, verbatim, 'You have no money,'" said Holt, describing the incident last year. A milk carton was taken away, and the girl's food was dumped in the trash. "She did not protest, other than to walk away in tears."
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http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article159565929.html |
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EDSOURCE
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Summer and school year programs give the very lowest math achievers answers, and hope |
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School districts around California are creating programs to help students at the very lowest math levels. Some students are just a few grade levels behind, but some have floundered since kindergarten, developing math mental blocks as young as age 5. Teachers at high-poverty middle schools say it’s not unusual to see students who struggle with basic arithmetic and even counting. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/very-lowest-math-achievers-find-answers-and-hope-at-some-schools/584264 |
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Votes coming on teacher tenure, for-profit charters, other key bills |
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Between now and July 21, when they take a month off, state legislators will have to decide the fate of bills that passed one chamber of the Legislature and await action in the other. Among those are key education bills that would lengthen teacher probation periods, require more accounting for spending under the Local Control Funding Formula, mandate a later start time for middle and high schools and further restrict student suspensions. What follows is a summary of the bills EdSource is following. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/votes-coming-on-teacher-tenure-for-profit-charters-other-key-bills/584138 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Better career readiness measure another year away |
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The state’s new system for evaluating school performance is likely to go at least one more year without more comprehensive indicators for measuring when a student is ready to enter the work force, according to a memo from the California Department of Education. After several years of development, the CDE and the state board of education unveiled a web-based dashboard in March that allows parents, taxpayers and policymakers to view school performance based on a number of key measures including test scores, graduation rates, absenteeism and parent engagement. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/curriculum-instruction/better-career-readiness-measure-another-year-away |
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School safety report shows mostly positive outcomes |
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Fewer teachers and students are reporting instances of bullying or other unsafe behaviors than 10 years ago, but stubborn trouble spots remain according to a federal school safety report.
Despite the overall positive findings in the National Center for Education Statistics’ latest study on school safety trends, researchers found that bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students was nearly double that of heterosexual students between 2014 and 2015.
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/human-resources/school-safety-report-shows-mostly-positive-outcomes |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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OCDE’s accountability plan targets technology, parental outreach and college/careers readiness |
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The Orange County Department of Education has developed a plan for the upcoming school year that aims to expand access to technology, increase college and career readiness opportunities and strengthen parental and community engagement.
OCDE’s Local Control and Accountability Plan, or LCAP, was unanimously approved by the Orange County Board of Education at its regular meeting on June 28. The plan outlines initiatives and programs the department will create and expand in coming years to help improve outcomes for the 6,485 students OCDE directly serves.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/ocdes-accountability-plan-targets-technology-parental-outreach-and-collegecareers-readiness/ |
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Five strategies to help combat summer learning loss |
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Summer learning loss. Summer slide. Brain drain.
These are three terms used to describe how students can fall behind during long periods with no school-related tasks. As a result, teachers often start each new school year by going over material from the previous year.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/five-strategies-to-help-combat-summer-learning-loss/ |
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