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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Virtual conference will focus on enhancing interpretation and translation services |
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Educators, parents and community members can learn how to further enhance school interpretation and translation services at OCDE’s fourth annual Interpreters and Translators Conference, which kicks off virtually Aug. 26. The month-long professional learning series is designed to support the work of bilingual staff, administrators, interpreters, translators, parent advocates and others seeking to ensure equitable access for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/virtual-conference-will-focus-on-enhancing-interpretation-and-translation-services/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Education is a top U.S. priority, and there’s wide support for online learning, poll finds |
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As children begin school in Los Angeles on Thursday, public education is among Americans’ top priorities, and most believe students should continue their education through some form of distance learning, a national poll has found. More than half, 54%, of the 2,200 adults surveyed said public school education should be a top priority for local officials, along with COVID-19, health care, the economy and safety/crime, according to the poll conducted by Morning Consult, a private company that does national political polling.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-20/national-poll-finds-majority-of-likely-voters-support-continuing-remote-education |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Southern California parents demonstrate for sooner school reopening |
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Dozens of parents rallied outside the headquarters for United Teachers Los Angeles on Wednesday, Aug. 19, to demand the union representing 35,000 teachers in L.A. Unified switch positions and support reopening campuses for those students who want to attend.
By about 5:30 p.m., more than 65 people, many from Orange County, gathered in front of the UTLA Plaza near Wilshire Center holding signs and chanting.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2020/08/19/southern-california-parents-demonstrate-for-sooner-school-reopening/ |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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San Diego County approves 19 schools to reopen |
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Nineteen San Diego-area schools are the first to get county approval to reopen, having obtained waivers from the state’s school closure mandate. They are all private schools except for one school district, the small Rancho Santa Fe district. State rules say that schools granted waivers can’t reopen until at least two weeks after the date they applied for a waiver. The county received its first waiver applications early last week, so schools with approved waivers won’t be able to reopen until next week.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-08-19/san-diego-county-approves-seven-schools-to-reopen |
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USA TODAY
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'Silent spreaders' of COVID-19: Kids who seem healthy may be more contagious than sick adults, study says |
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A new study adds to growing evidence that children are not immune to COVID-19 and may even play a larger role in community spread than previously thought.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Hospital for Children found that among 192 children, 49 tested positive for the coronavirus and had significantly higher levels of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in intensive care units, according to the study published Thursday in the Journal of Pediatrics.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/20/covid-study-kids-mild-no-symptoms-more-contagious-than-adults/3392088001/ |
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PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH
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Operation School Bell provides Long Beach students with supplies, hygiene kits amid coronavirus |
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A Long Beach organization that has spent more than two decades helping children from low-income families get ready for the new school year, hasn’t let the coronavirus pandemic stop it from fulfilling its mission — but how it goes about that mission has changed a bit. Rick Rackers, an auxiliary of the Assistance League of Long Beach, will begin distributing school supplies and hygiene kits — including masks and hand sanitizer — next week as part of Operation School Bell.
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https://www.presstelegram.com/2020/08/19/operation-school-bell-provides-long-beach-students-with-supplies-hygiene-kits-amid-coronavirus/ |
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VENTURA COUNTY STAR
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Oxnard School District weighs Spanish-language board meeting |
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At Wednesday's board meeting, Oxnard School District trustees will discuss holding a special school board meeting in Spanish. Trustee Denis O'Leary said the idea was suggested by fellow Trustee Jarely Lopez at a board meeting about two months ago. In O'Leary's 17 years on board, he said the district has never held a board meeting in Spanish. Typically, the school board holds its meetings in English with translators available for Spanish-speaking attendees.
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https://vcstar.com/story/news/2020/08/19/oxnard-school-district-weighs-spanish-language-board-meeting/3392198001/ |
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KPCC
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What One LAUSD Teacher Learned About Why 'Daily, Live' Lessons Matter |
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Last spring live video lessons weren't mandatory and expectations weren't always clear. As a result, parent surveys and LAUSD's own data show Black, Latino, English learner and special education students were far less likely than their peers to engage in distance learning. This school year, a new distance learning agreement with LAUSD's teachers union will aim to ensure more consistent, real-time interactions between teachers and students. Today, new daily class schedules based on these new rules begin in earnest after two days of online orientation.
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https://laist.com/2020/08/20/lausd_distance_learning_rules_coronavirus_online_instruction_zoom_classes.php |
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NPR
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California Students With Disabilities Could Soon Return To In-Person Schooling |
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Iolani Van Brusselen’s right hand is becoming so stiff she can hardly use it. The 11-year-old has cerebral palsy, among other conditions, and her mother JoAnna Van Brusselen is watching the change with constant concern. “It’s just turned into a claw again,” she said. “We had done so much therapy that it had loosened up and she started using it, and now it just looks terrible.” Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Iolani was attending Leonard Flynn Elementary School in San Francisco. She was receiving occupational therapy and had a team of people to remind her to use the hand, her mother said.
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https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/08/19/california-students-with-disabilities-could-soon-return-to-in-person-schooling/ |
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