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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Anaheim High School is home to a new ‘Beast’ |
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The Anaheim Union High School District, in partnership with Waste Not OC and Impact the Change, has unveiled the world’s first off-the-grid, fully sustainable, 100 percent solar-powered freezer unit to store thousands of frozen meals for people in need.
After three years of planning and building, “The Beast” was created from a 40-foot refrigerated cargo container and will be housed in the parking lot at Anaheim High School. This one-of-a-kind freezer is able to store up to 25,000 vacuum-packed, frozen meals for the community, serving as a hub for Orange County food recovery.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/anaheim-high-school-is-home-to-a-new-beast/ |
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COVID-19 update: Orange County removed from state’s COVID-19 monitoring list; 14-day countdown clock in motion |
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OCDE and local school districts continue to track the latest developments related to COVID-19 while following guidance from the California Department of Public Health and the Orange County Health Care Agency. Below is our running digest, with newer stories posted at the top.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/coronavirus-update/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Orange County removed from state coronavirus watch list |
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Orange County on Sunday was removed from the state’s watch list of counties hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, punctuating weeks of improvement from a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in July. Now, if Orange County can keep its rate of new cases, percentage of positive tests and other watch list metrics at acceptable levels for two weeks, K-12 students could physically go back to newly spaced-out classrooms after Labor Day weekend. The decision to reopen schools lies with each district.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/08/23/orange-county-removed-from-state-coronavirus-watch-list/ |
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Social distancing, masks: Welcome back to football |
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Temperature checks. Social distancing and masks. Welcome to high school football practice in 2020. The season was supposed to start this week in Orange County. It didn’t, of course. The coronavirus pandemic that has changed just about everything also pushed back the start of the season to January. But athletes are allowed to start conditioning and practicing outdoors.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/08/22/social-distancing-masks-welcome-back-to-football/ |
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Why is US facing a back-to-school laptop shortage? |
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Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year’s most crucial back-to-school supplies: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning, an Associated Press investigation has found. The world’s three biggest computer companies, Lenovo, HP and Dell, have told school districts they have a shortage of nearly 5 million laptops, in some cases exacerbated by Trump administration sanctions on Chinese suppliers, according to interviews with over two dozen U.S. schools, districts in 15 states, suppliers, computer companies and industry analysts.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/08/22/why-is-us-facing-a-back-to-school-laptop-shortage/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Prop. 209’s affirmative action ban drove down Black and Latino UC enrollment and wages, study finds |
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California’s ban on affirmative action has significantly harmed Black and Latino students by reducing their enrollment across University of California campuses, lowering their graduation rates and driving down subsequent wages, a new UC Berkeley study has found. The study, released Friday, also found evidence that the affirmative action ban imposed by Proposition 209 did not significantly harm Asian American and white students denied admission to UC’s most selective campuses. That’s because they enrolled instead at universities of comparable high quality and earned similarly high earnings in the following years.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-22/prop-209s-affirmative-action-ban-drove-down-black-and-latino-uc-enrollment-and-wages-study-finds |
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VOICE OF OC
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Orange County Sounds Off On Returning to Schools During Era of The Coronavirus Pandemic |
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After weeks of combing through thousands of emails sent to the Board of education, the Voice of OC is publishing the comments to amplify those voices in the community.
Over 4,000 emails were sent into the county’s board of education from parents, teachers, educators, students, medical professionals and community members on their recommendations. Overall, 73% of the emails in the database were against sending kids back to school without masks and social distancing, about 15% were for and roughly 12% did not have a definitive stance on the board’s reopening recommendations.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2020/08/orange-county-sounds-off-on-returning-to-schools-during-era-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic/ |
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DAILY BREEZE
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To bridge ‘homework gap,’ LA parks facilities could serve as childcare, ‘learning centers’ |
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Los Angeles parks facilities could soon look more like classrooms under a proposed program to convert 50 recreational centers in low-income neighborhoods into alternative learning and after-school centers for middle-school students. The program, which needs the approval of the Los Angeles City Council, comes as the Los Angeles Unified School District’s online classes have begun, forcing many parents to face the challenge of balancing work and finding adequate care and supervision for their children during the day.
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https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/08/21/to-bridge-homework-gap-la-parks-facilities-could-serve-as-childcare-learning-centers/ |
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KPCC
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Why Grab-And-Go Meals Around SoCal Could Change This School Year |
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On Alhambra Unified's first day of school last week, Vivien Watts saw a teenager biking around a grab-and-go meal site. He saw they were handing out meals, so he pulled over and asked, "Are these meals free?" she said. If he had asked last spring — or even over the summer — the answer to that question would have been yes. But because he asked this school year, Watts said the food staff were required to answer his question with a question of their own: "Are you a student here?"
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https://laist.com/2020/08/21/grab_and_go_free_meals_fall_2020.php |
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KPBS
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Schools Remain Cautious Even As San Diego Moves Off State’s COVID-19 Monitoring List |
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While San Diego County is getting closer to meeting the state requirement for reopening schools amid the pandemic, the schools themselves aren’t in a hurry to welcome students back to campus. Under state mandate, a county must be off the monitoring list for high COVID-19 infection rates for 14 days before its schools can start in-person learning. As the county enters its fourth day of being off the list, some San Diego County schools say they’re sticking to online or, at most, hybrid instruction even if the county reaches the 14-day mark.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/aug/21/san-diego-county-states-covid-19-monitoring-list-s/ |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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Laguna Beach’s Class of 2020 gifts mural to high school |
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The Class of 2020 has left a colorful mark on Laguna Beach High School’s campus to cap one of the most unconventional school years in history. In light of the pandemic’s closure of normal school activities, the 2020 Senior Graduation Committee commissioned Laguna Beach artist Jesse Bartels to create a tiled mural depicting a hilltop view of the High School. Bartels said in a phone interview that he finished installation Tuesday of the piece entitled “2020 Vision, Seeing Light in the Darkness” on the exterior of the Theater Box Office. The quote was authored by Laguna Beach High Senior Luka Salib, according to a press release.
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/laguna-beachs-class-of-2020-gifts-mural-to-high-school/ |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Thousands of California students use pandemic-shuttered classrooms for day camps and tutoring programs |
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Los Angeles Unified School District kindergartners scribbled their assignments and stretched their hands in the air, each working behind a clear plastic partition that is now as much a part of school’s visual lexicon as milk pints and chalkboards. But these L.A. students aren’t back in school. Instead, they’ve joined thousands of youngsters who log into class from day camps and tutoring programs such as this one — many alongside their pre-COVID classmates, and some in the very classrooms that were shuttered by the pandemic.
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https://ktla.com/news/local-news/thousands-of-california-students-use-pandemic-shuttered-classrooms-for-day-camps-and-tutoring-programs/ |
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