OCDE Education in the News

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

OCDE NEWSROOM

New digital printing program at La Vista/La Sierra high schools to give students career path

La Vista and La Sierra high schools are launching a third career tech education course this school year to give continuation and at-risk students real life work experience. A new Graphics Production Technologies program will grant teenagers access to color printing services and put them “on a pathway to find skilled employment,” Principal Sandi Layana said.

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/01/new-digital-printing-program-at-la-vistala-sierra-high-schools-to-give-students-career-path/

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Brown vetoes a bill to make school districts consider ties between zero-tolerance policies and suicide

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Monday that would have required school districts that have zero-tolerance policies toward drugs or alcohol use to hold community-wide conversations on whether expulsions related to substance abuse deter students from seeking help for mental health problems. Brown said in a statement that he declined to sign the bill because, while he agrees with its goal, "this is a matter more appropriately handled at the local level."

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-essential-education-updates-southern-brown-vetoes-marc-berman-suicide-zero-tolerance-bill-htmlstory.html

DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES

Pacoima charter school opens new shipping container classrooms — a first for LAUSD

Fifth-grade teacher Berny Contreras faced his new students in a new classroom Tuesday at Vaughn Next Century Learning Center in Pacoima. “If you take a good look around, a good observer’s going to notice what we are standing in,” Contreras told the children. “Who can tell me, what it is that you are standing in?”

http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20170801/pacoima-charter-school-opens-new-shipping-container-classrooms-a-first-for-lausd

NEW YORK TIMES

A Wakeup Call on Writing Instruction (Now, What’s an Adverb?)

On a bright July morning in a windowless conference room in a Manhattan bookstore, several dozen elementary school teachers were learning how to create worksheets that would help children learn to write. Thirty miles away at Nassau Community College, Meredith Wanzer, a high school teacher and instructor with the Long Island Writing Project, was running a weeklong workshop attended by six teenage girls.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/education/edlife/writing-education-grammar-students-children.html

EDSOURCE

Cal State drops intermediate algebra requirement; allows other math courses

A new policy from the California State University system will soon allow students to take courses other than intermediate algebra to satisfy general education math requirements. The new rules go into effect starting in the fall of 2018 and will apply to both CSU freshmen and community college students transferring into the 23-university system.

https://edsource.org/2017/cal-state-drops-intermediate-algebra-requirement-allows-other-math-courses/585595

KPCC

'No shots, no school'? Vaccination rates lag in California charter schools

Vaccination rates in California schools reached an all-time high last school year, but one subset of public schools still appears to be lagging behind: charter schools. A KPCC analysis of recently-released state vaccination rate data shows students in charter schools are much less likely than their peers in traditional, district-run public schools to be up-to-date on all of the shots California law says they should receive by seventh grade.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/02/74295/no-shots-no-school-vaccination-rates-lag-in-califo/

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