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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Anaheim Union High School District pivots after technical difficulties on opening day |
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The Anaheim Union High School District received a lesson on Wednesday, Aug. 12, about just how fragile the distance-learning model can be. On the first day of its 2020-21 school year, the district shifted to an alternate virtual platform after a Spectrum internet outage the day before made its regular learning site temporarily unavailable, a district spokesman confirmed Wednesday. The outage temporarily took down the district’s learning management platform, Schoology, an online tool also used by the Tustin Unified School District to help teachers contact students with homework and updates.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/08/12/anaheim-union-high-school-district-pivots-after-technical-difficulties-on-opening-day/ |
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VOICE OF OC
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OC Board of Education and Department Ramp Up Taxpayer Spending On Internal Lawsuits |
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Orange County’s education leaders have spent just over $2 million on lawsuits against each other in the last two years, and are set to spend nearly another $2 million more this year. The county Board of Education and Department of Education have butted heads for years, with their most recent spat over the board calling for students to return to schools without masks or social distancing turning into national news. Just three years ago, neither the board or department had any legal expenditures on outside counsel aside from settlement fees on old cases that were argued by their in-house counsel.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2020/08/oc-board-of-education-and-department-ramp-up-taxpayer-spending-on-internal-lawsuits/ |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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Distance learning is back for Bay Area schools, but will it be better this time? |
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Sabrina Albright propped up her school-issued laptop on a history textbook at her kitchen table Wednesday morning as she prepared to greet her new students through the computer screen on the first day of class. Although it wasn’t exactly how Albright — a 26-year teacher in Union City’s New Haven Unified School District — would have hoped to start the new year, she was confident that distance learning was going to happen more smoothly this time than last spring.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/12/distance-learning-is-back-for-bay-area-schools-but-will-it-be-better-this-time/ |
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‘Awfully late’: In 11th hour reversal, San Jose teachers allowed to work from home |
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Less than 24 hours before teachers were set to give their first lessons of the new school year from inside their empty classrooms, the San Jose Unified School District has decided to give them the choice to work from home. San Jose Unified was one of only a handful of districts in the region, including Morgan Hill Unified, that planned to make teachers return to campuses even without students there. Most of Morgan Hill Unified’s teachers showed up Monday.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/11/one-day-before-going-back-to-school-san-jose-teachers-granted-the-choice-to-work-from-home/ |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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Inland schools round up laptops as online learning resumes |
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With a new round of distance learning getting started, Inland officials are working to make sure every student has access to virtual instruction.
The Riverside County Office of Education Foundation launched the All For One fundraiser to collect devices for students in need after the coronavirus pandemic shut schools. The goal of trying to eliminate the digital divide got a major boost Tuesday, Aug. 4, when the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted to donate $10 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to the cause.
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https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/08/12/inland-schools-round-up-laptops-as-online-learning-resumes/ |
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PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH
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EDSOURCE
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Ask a reporter: Back to school in California during Covid-19 |
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Back-to-school season is always a time of excitement and uncertainty about the year ahead. But the coronavirus pandemic has led to new challenges and questions about how to continue education while school campuses across California are closed.
On Wednesday, more than 300 guests tuned in to a virtual town hall where EdSource reporters answered readers’ questions about what school will look like this fall, from what happens if a student tests positive for the virus, to campus housing for college students, to teacher preparedness for the year ahead.
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https://edsource.org/2020/ask-a-reporter-back-to-school-in-california-during-covid-19/638156 |
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Oakland Unified opens virtually with thousands of students lacking computers and hotspots |
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Acitywide campaign in Oakland raised $12.5 million to purchase computers and Wi-Fi hotspots to equip students for distance learning, but school began on Monday and many students did not have what they needed to join in virtually. Officials said about 7,000 of Oakland Unified’s approximately 35,000 registered students lacked equipment and hotspots on the first day of school for a variety of reasons.
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https://edsource.org/2020/oakland-unified-opens-virtually-with-thousands-of-students-lacking-computers-and-hotspots/638140 |
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