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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Drinking lead: Why California may force all schools to test their water |
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When a therapy dog refused to drink at a San Diego grade school, it was the first clue that something was wrong with the water. Tests revealed why the pup turned up its nose—the presence of polyvinyl chloride, the polymer in PVC pipes that degrade over time. But further analysis found something else that had gone undetected by the dog, the teachers and students of the San Diego Cooperative Charter School, and the school district: A elevated levels of lead. |
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http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20170820/drinking-lead-why-california-may-force-all-schools-to-test-their-water |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Juvenile crime rates plummet amid new approaches to tackling youth crime |
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When San Diego County went looking for grant funds to help build a 300-bed jail for juveniles, officials argued that the 1950s-era Juvenile Hall on Meadowlark Lane was strained to the breaking point. “There is literally no more room at the inn,” the county warned in a grant application in 1999 seeking $36 million in construction funds for what would become, in 2004, the East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility. |
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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-juvenile-crime-20170803-story.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Oakland launches new public school in effort to prevent families from fleeing |
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For the first time in more than a decade, Oakland Unified is opening a new public school in a bid to keep families from fleeing the district to attend charters they see as innovative or private schools they view as superior.
The Oakland School of Language, or Oakland SOL, will be the district’s first dual-immersion middle school when it opens its doors to nearly 75 sixth-grade students Monday, offering academic subjects in Spanish and English. The school will phase in seventh and eighth grades over the next two years.
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http://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Oakland-launches-new-public-school-in-effort-to-11946091.php |
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PRESS-ENTERPRISE
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Top 5 new things as Southern California students start school |
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Fall hasn’t arrived, but more than 6 million children have already returned or are about to head back to more than 10,000 schools across California.
As students hit the books and parents start fretting over their kids’ math homework, here are five things to watch for in campuses across Southern California:
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http://www.pe.com/2017/08/19/top-5-new-things-in-southern-california-in-the-new-school-year/ |
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EDSOURCE
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'A pathological optimist,' counseling award winner urges students to pursue college aid |
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At many urban schools in California, counselors would be delighted if 67 percent of recent graduates were headed to four-year colleges and 31 percent to community colleges. But for Lynda McGee, college counselor at the Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles, that rate was a bit of a drop from the year before, partly because of increased selectivity at UC and CSU. She pledges to boost the numbers next year, working to help enroll the 250 seniors — most from low-income and immigrant families — at colleges that match their skills and provide enough financial aid. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/a-pathological-optimist-counseling-award-winner-urges-students-to-pursue-college-aid/585968 |
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Dyslexia, once the reading disability that shall not be named, comes into its own in California |
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Jamie Bennetts created a spreadsheet of every child’s reading scores in the small Knightsen Elementary School District a few summers ago, identified the laggers and greeted them in the fall with state-adopted reading interventions. She was new to her job as a reading interventionist, a position she sought after the unnerving experience of teaching 7th-graders, many of whom she’d taught as 1st- or 2nd-graders, and discovering that the 6- and 7-year-olds she’d known as poor readers were still reading poorly at 12 and 13. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/new-california-dyslexia-guidelines/586051 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Opioid abuse poised to trickle- down into OC schools |
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With the opioid epidemic spiking in Orange County’s tony beach communities, health officials say that school districts should be prepared for when the drug abuse problems begin to trickle down into the high schools.
Emergency room visits in the county have more than doubled over the last decade while the rate of opioid overdose is among the highest statewide, according to a report released last week by the Orange County Health Care Agency.
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/human-resources/opioid-abuse-poised-to-trickle-down-into-oc-schools |
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