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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Two new K-8 schools open in Orange County this week |
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State-of-the-art learning labs, eco-friendly designs and that new classroom smell greeted students at two brand new schools that opened this week in Irvine and Rancho Mission Viejo. Cadence Park School in the Great Park neighborhood in Irvine Unified and Esencia School in Capistrano Unified are Orange County’s newest campuses. They will both eventually serve students in PreK through grade eight. |
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/two-new-k-8-schools-open-in-orange-county-this-week/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Survey: Fewer California teens use marijuana even as legalization kicks in |
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Marijuana use among California students dropped in recent years, even as laws legalizing the drug for adults 21 and older started to kick in, according to the latest state-commissioned California Healthy Kids Survey. One possible reason is that students told surveyors marijuana is harder to get now than it was a few years ago.
Legalization advocates are calling the results early evidence that regulating marijuana protects kids better than banning it — a pattern that has so far played out in other states.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/22/survey-fewer-california-teens-use-marijuana-even-as-legalization-kicks-in/ |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Medical pot on school grounds: Parents, Bay Area legislator making the push |
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Every day at noon, Karina Garcia drives to her son’s South San Francisco high school to give him a dose of cannabis oil to prevent potentially life-threatening seizures.
But she can’t do it on campus. She has to take Jojo, a 19-year-old with severe epilepsy, off school grounds to squirt the drug into his mouth, then bring him back for his special-education classes. It doesn’t matter that Garcia’s son has a doctor’s note recommending he take the drug, nor that the medication is legal for both medicinal and recreational purposes in California. Marijuana use is strictly forbidden on school grounds because it violates federal law.
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Medical-pot-on-school-grounds-Parents-Bay-Area-13171927.php?t=96a61f7760 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Deadline for bus safety alert systems to be extended |
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Local educational agencies who have struggled to meet new safety requirements on school buses will be given more time to comply, under a bill pending in the Legislature.
After the death of a student with special needs who had been left unattended on a school bus, lawmakers adopted mandates on districts to install alarm systems that must be manually turned off at the back of the vehicle. The bill, signed into law in 2016, gave LEAs until the beginning of this school year to comply.
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https://k-12daily.org/human-resources/deadline-for-bus-safety-alert-systems-to-be-extended |
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Should soft skills be developed at home or in school? |
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Employers, teachers and parents tend to agree that children who develop better communication skills or character traits are more likely to lead successful lives, but results from a new survey show disagreement regarding where K-12 students should cultivate those abilities. A Gallup poll of more than 4,000 parents, teachers, principals and superintendents found a majority agree that skills like creativity, problem solving and grit–known as soft skills–are just as crucial to success as academics. Yet in a report detailing the survey results, authors also found that many respondents said that responsibility should fall on the family. |
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https://k-12daily.org/curriculum-instruction/should-soft-skills-be-developed-at-home-or-in-school |
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