LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Judge denies H.B. blogger's motion against Ocean View School District trustee |
An Orange County Superior Court judge on Thursday denied a motion by a Huntington Beach blogger who argued that a school board member’s legal actions against him unfairly limited his right to criticize an elected official. Judge Sheila Recio denied HB Sledgehammer publisher Chuck Johnson’s anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation, or anti-SLAPP, motion, against Ocean View School District trustee Gina Clayton-Tarvin. SLAPP cases are considered an attempt to intimidate critics by burdening them with the costs of a legal defense. |
http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-hb-anti-slapp-20180810-story.html |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Chula Vista school to refund parents forced to pay for cheerleading clothes |
For their children to be on the Olympian High School cheerleading team last school year, parents were told to pay $50 for shoes, $50 for a black body liner, $50 for practice clothes, $25 for warm-up embroidery, $25 for bloomers, $20 for socks and $15 for bows.
Altogether, it cost at least $235 to be a cheerleader — at a public high school.
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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-me-cheerleading-20180812-story.html |
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Charter schools scramble to become legal as new school year nears |
With the new school year just days away, hundreds of San Diego-area charter school students and their parents are waiting to see if their school will be legally allowed to exist. For years, independent study California charter schools, many of which combine in-class and online instruction, had opened “satellite” locations outside of the school district that authorized them under the assumption that state law allowed it. |
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-me-charter-schools-20180813-story.html# |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Few California school districts have tested water for lead, even though it’s free |
As students head back to class across California this month, many will sip water from school fountains or faucets that could contain high levels of lead.
That’s because two-thirds of the state’s 1,026 school districts have not taken advantage of a free state testing program to determine whether the toxic metal is coming out of the taps and, if so, whether it exceeds federal standards.
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https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Few-California-school-districts-have-tested-water-13150281.php?t=923bc8a3c6 |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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De Anza Middle School students raise $5,000 to build water well in Sudan |
De Anza Middle School students have been raising funds for the past four years to provide a water well for families in Sudan. Their efforts have paid off. The seventh-grade students have raised more than $5,000, which is enough for Water for Sudan, a nonprofit, to fund one fully-functioning well. Seventh-grade English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers at the school, 1450 S. Sultana Ave. in Ontario, designed a Project-Based Learning instructional unit based on the book, “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. |
https://www.dailybulletin.com/2018/08/11/de-anza-middle-school-students-to-be-recognized-for-raising-funds-to-build-water-well-in-sudan/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California student leaders focus on affordability |
The three students who vote on the governing boards of California’s three gigantic systems of higher education say they want to focus attention this year on the costs of housing and textbooks. While tuition will not increase for the 2018-19 school year, those other costs of living and study are increasingly major burdens to many students, according to the students who will be able to vote on such issues at the California Community Colleges’ Board of Governors, the California State University’s Board of Trustees and the University of California’s Board of Regents. |
https://edsource.org/2018/california-student-leaders-focus-on-affordability/601020 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Bill would improve access to mental health resources |
Lawmakers continue to push a bill aimed at increasing mental health resources available to California students as the end of the current session quickly approaches.
SB 972, which would require middle and high schools to print suicide prevention hotline numbers and text crisis hotlines on the back of student’s identification cards, passed a key legislative committee last week.
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https://k-12daily.org/politics-education/bill-would-improve-access-to-mental-health-resources |
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