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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Orange County’s 2020 census response is exceeding state and national averages |
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Keep it up, OC. The latest figures available on the U.S. Census website show Orange County has a higher rate of participation than California and the rest of the country. And 10 local cities have already surpassed their 2010 response rates. As of Monday, 70.3 percent of Orange County residents had filled out their census forms, which means we rank sixth out of California’s 58 counties. The state’s overall response rate was 63.1 percent, and the national response was hovering just shy of 62 percent.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/orange-countys-2020-census-response-is-exceeding-state-and-national-averages/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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O.C. Department of Education advises schools to postpone summer athletic programs |
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Orange County high schools were advised Monday, July 6 by legal counsel for the Orange County Department of Education to postpone summer athletic programs until further guidelines from health officials. In a letter from general counsel Jeffrey J. Riel to district superintendents and assistant superintendents, Riel detailed Orange County and California’s reopening efforts and a clarification that “recreational team sports were not permitted under the guidance for day camps”, according to the California Department of Public Health.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/06/o-c-department-of-education-advises-schools-to-postpone-summer-athletic-programs/ |
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With school’s namesake accused of possible KKK ties, family asks district to remove name |
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The grandchildren of Brea educator William E. Fanning knew him as a compassionate man who never missed an opportunity to nurture young minds. Among other lessons, the amateur apiarist would invite neighborhood kids to observe – from the safety of his screened porch – a demonstration in beekeeping. But almost four decades after his death, Fanning would become associated with the antithesis of the kind of person his family remembers. In 2017, the alternative newspaper OC Weekly reported that Fanning appears on a 1920s list of Ku Klux Klan members.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/07/06/with-schools-namesake-accused-of-possible-kkk-ties-fanning-family-asks-district-to-let-the-healing-begin-and-rem |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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If LAUSD stays online for fall, there will be an ‘ambitious set of expectations,’ says superintendent |
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Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday there’s still no timetable on when school facilities may reopen due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the district may need to create a balance of online and in-person classes for the next academic year that starts Aug. 18. “As we look ahead to the start of a new school year, the challenge is to build on the foundation that’s been put in place over the past few months and apply the learnings to provide the best possible education for students,” Beutner said during his weekly coronavirus briefing.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2020/07/06/if-lausd-stays-online-for-fall-there-will-be-an-ambitious-set-of-expectations-says-superintendent/ |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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How will Bay Area classrooms work in the fall? Teachers imagine the future of school |
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Kindergartners in California will not only learn their ABCs this fall, but also why they need to keep their hands out of their mouths and off each other. They’ll need to sing their childhood songs behind masks, and those songs will be altered to reflect a pandemic rather than play. “If you’re happy and you know it, wash your hands.”
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/How-will-Bay-Area-classrooms-work-in-the-fall-15381406.php |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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Far East Contra Costa schools diverge on in-person, remote learning |
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Schools in far East County are headed toward different paths, with high schools set for a hybrid online/in-person schedule while the Brentwood Union School and Oakley Union school district feeder schools have opted for full distance learning in the fall.
In a special meeting on Monday, Liberty Union High School District voted to push back the start of the school year two weeks to Aug. 10. Several hours later, both Brentwood Union and Oakley Union separately decided not to bring students on campus and return to distance learning on their normal starting dates — July 28 and July 27, respectively.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/07/07/far-east-contra-costa-schools-diverge-on-in-person-remote-learning/ |
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FRESNO BEE
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Fresno teachers open up about online classes. ‘I was not prepared for how hard it really is’ |
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Teachers said the “social-emotional” effects the shutdown had on students and teachers couldn’t really be measured. It’s just one of the many reasons some teachers say they are eager to return to the classroom.
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article243725082.html |
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CALmatters
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With California schools opening soon, kids lack needed tech to learn remotely |
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Betty Hunter and her rising eighth grader had a challenging spring of distance learning.
On one hand, Hunter felt “blessed” that her son, Angel, received at least some form of live instruction each day from his teachers at the Mary L. Booker Leadership Academy, the San Francisco charter school he attended this spring. Educators also made themselves available through office hours, another plus. Then there were the struggles. Hunter was forced to balance her day job and serve as her son’s de facto teacher.
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https://calmatters.org/education/2020/07/california-digital-divide-distance-learning/ |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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'How the hell are we going to do this?' The panic over reopening schools |
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Pediatricians say schools should strive to bring kids back to classrooms. Teachers unions are on the verge of revolt, in fear of infections. Local school districts are struggling with everything from technology to staging schools for socially distanced learning. And Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is largely on the sidelines, saying the coronavirus back-to-school planning is a state and local issue.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/04/coronavirus-school-opening-348405 |
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