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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Districts must show how they’re addressing learning gaps with new plan |
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This year, school districts won’t be expected to produce those long-range planning guides tied to budget projections, otherwise known as Local Control and Accountability Plans, or LCAPs. Instead, they’ll be required to complete an accountability plan of a different kind, but with very similar initials. The Learning Continuity Plan — sometimes called the LCP, or Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan — was written into the latest state budget. The intent is to show how districts are responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on instruction and, most notably, how they’re offsetting potential learning losses.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/districts-must-show-how-theyre-addressing-learning-gaps-with-new-plan/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Westminster School District trustee asks district attorney to review colleague’s eligibility |
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Westminster School District trustee Jamison Power has asked officials to “move expeditiously” with an investigation into whether a colleague committed voter fraud.
In late June, after Power decided against seeking a third term in the 2020 election, Westminster School District trustee Frances Nguyen officially changed her longtime address to a home near Power’s precinct. Although in the city of Westminster, that house actually sits just outside the school district’s boundary line – within the Ocean View School District.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/08/18/westminster-school-district-trustee-asks-district-attorney-to-review-colleagues-eligibility/ |
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VOICE OF OC
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Criminal Charges and Residency Questions Amp Up Westminster School Board Races |
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An elected Westminster school board member has resigned in the face of criminal residency fraud charges. Similar residency questions now surround another. All of the drama comes ahead of an election this November where two seats on the Westminster School District’s Board of Trustees are up for grabs. The newly vacant seat could either be filled by special election or appointment.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2020/08/criminal-charges-and-residency-questions-amp-up-westminster-school-board-races/ |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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San Francisco schools beef up distance learning on first day back, after shaky spring |
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San Francisco schools threw open their virtual doors Monday, starting a new academic year with a distance learning game plan officials hope will offer more live instruction than the spring. Until the district’s 53,000 students can return to class, they will have to log on for an education with their 3,600 teachers. The stakes are high, with parents fearing a repeat of what was largely a disastrous start to distance learning in the spring, when schools were required to switch to remote instruction overnight.
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https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/SF-schools-beef-up-distance-learning-on-first-day-15490755.php?t=2ac656c88b |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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Fremont parents, teachers zoom into debate over how much ‘live” online instruction is needed |
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With roughly 35,000 students about to start classes again on Aug. 26, Fremont educators say they’re confident their distance learning plans will be a success but some parents are fretting that there might not be enough live instruction. Fremont Unified School District has decided to allow each of its 42 campuses to set their own class schedules just as they would in a typical year where students actually sit inside classrooms. However, those schedules must comply with state requirements for daily online instructional minutes.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/18/parents-teachers-zoom-into-debate-over-how-much-live-online-instruction-is-needed/ |
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PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH
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FRESNO BEE
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Fresno students get ‘mooned,’ Clovis class Zoombombed during week one of online school |
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Distance learning got off to a rough start in the Fresno area after students at one school turned an email into a 1,000+ reply chain, which included memes, and a student mooning the camera. At another school, an intruder yelled an obscene word before being removed from a Zoom class. The incidents spotlight technical challenges confronting schools during the early stages of the new era of distance learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article245064055.html#storylink=mainstage_lead |
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KPCC
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Everything We Know About LAUSD's Program To Test Students And Staff For Coronavirus |
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Way back in March, Stephanie Mednick remembers talking with a group of fellow school nurses about what steps they'd need to take to reopen campuses. The idea of widespread coronavirus testing did come up. But these nurses knew better than to expect that the Los Angeles Unified School District would actually do it. "It sort of was like, 'Oh, yeah right, we're really going to do that,'" said Mednick, who's been an LAUSD nurse for 38 years.
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https://laist.com/2020/08/18/coronavirus_lausd_how_where_do_i_get_tested_losangeles_unified_covid19_screenings.php |
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KPBS
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How San Diego School Districts Are Dealing With Discipline In The Age Of COVID-19 |
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On the first day of the new school year at the Sweetwater Union High School District, a student brandished a firearm during a virtual class session. The police were called and officers arrived at the student’s residence to find that the weapon was a BB gun and no one was harmed.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/aug/19/how-san-diego-school-districts-are-dealing-discipl/ |
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