OCDE Education in the News

Friday, August 17, 2018

WASHINGTON POST

Going mobile: The government’s most crucial financial aid form

Generations of students and parents have groaned over a chore essential for those who need assistance in paying for college: filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Some get stuck on what can be a complicated sequence of questions. Others miss deadlines or skip the process entirely.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/08/16/going-mobile-the-governments-most-crucial-financial-aid-form/

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN

This Inland Empire charter school is teaching students to be the boss

Chartered through San Bernardino City Unified, Entrepreneur High opened in a long-vacant Kmart this month.

https://www.sbsun.com/2018/08/16/this-inland-empire-charter-school-is-teaching-students-to-be-the-boss/

PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH

New Cal State Long Beach student goes from drugs and prison to a President’s Scholar

The chemistry teacher wanted to see his star student after class. She was a Distinguished Scholar, took honors classes, played first-chair violin in the orchestra. If you would have met her in those early years at Wilson High in Long Beach, Taryn Williams would have told you her dream was to study computational physics at the UC San Diego. Would the teacher be commending her genius? Not quite.

https://www.presstelegram.com/2018/08/17/new-cal-state-long-beach-student-goes-from-drugs-and-prison-to-a-presidents-scholar/

EDSOURCE

One California charter school's struggle for approval and a building close to its parents

The clock ran out for Promise Academy in its extended battle with San Jose Unified to open a charter school this fall — a delay that reflects escalating tensions between school districts and charter school organizations in California.

https://edsource.org/2018/one-california-charter-schools-struggle-for-approval-and-a-building-close-to-its-parents/601370

Gary Hart, author of California’s charter school law, reflects on its impact

The original law capped the number of charter schools statewide at 100, with no more than 10 in any one district and 20 in Los Angeles Unified. In 1998, the Legislature raised the limit to 250 charter schools plus an additional 100 more each year after that.

https://edsource.org/2018/gary-hart-author-of-californias-charter-school-law-reflects-on-its-impact/601212

KPCC

Did meeting between LAUSD and teachers union leaders make a strike less likely? Depends on who you ask

At stake is whether the more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles stay on the job or ultimately decide to walk out of the nation's second largest school district.

http://www.laist.com/2018/08/16/lausds_superintendent_met_with_the_teachers_unions_leader_they_dont_agree_on_what_happened.php

NPR

Teachers Turning To Free Supply Shops To Outfit Their Classrooms

The Teacher Supply Swap, a free store for educators in Baltimore, is serving a community with a child poverty rate higher than the national average. Teachers say the Swap and similar organizations across the country are making a real dent in the amount of money they pay every year out of pocket for classroom supplies.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/636832519/teachers-turning-to-free-supply-shops-to-outfit-their-classrooms

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