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OCDE NEWSROOM
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State department of education announces new partnership to connect students in need |
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The state superintendent of public instruction on Wednesday announced a new collaboration with Apple and T-Mobile to provide internet-enabled iPads at a discounted price to districts across California. According to a press release from the CDE, “Apple and T-Mobile will fulfill orders from districts — which could reach up to 1 million students — with discounted iPads already equipped with high-speed internet connectivity.”
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/state-department-of-education-announces-new-partnership-to-connect-students-in-need/ |
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VOICE OF OC
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OC School Reopening Reignites Debate Over Alternative Education, Charter Schools |
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Waving signs and American flags, demonstrators turned out earlier this week to the Santa Ana offices of the California Teachers Association on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision last month to restrict classrooms to largely virtual, distance learning settings. Many of the demonstrators who showed up to the teacher’s union building on Tuesday described themselves as parents who feel they’ve been left out of the decision making process around in-person versus virtual learning — a process they see as more responsive to bureaucratic and union interests than their kids.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2020/08/oc-school-reopening-reignites-debate-over-alternative-education-charter-schools/ |
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OC Youth Sports Largely Cancelled as Coronavirus Transmission Rates Remain Clouded by Uncertainty |
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“Outdoor and indoor sporting events, assemblies, and other activities that require close contact or that would promote congregating are not permitted at this time. For example, tournaments, events, or competitions, regardless of whether teams are from the same school or from different schools, counties, or states are not permitted at this time,” reads guidelines from the state Department of Public Health released Monday. The guidelines call for outdoor sports where athletes can keep six-feet away from each other. And for the activities to take place with people who’ve already been around each other to limit transmission.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2020/08/oc-youth-sports-largely-cancelled-as-coronavirus-transmission-rates-remain-clouded-by-uncertainty/ |
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CAPISTRANO DISPATCH
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Coral Thrift Shop Awards Scholarships to 50 Local High School Seniors |
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Coral Thrift Shop has awarded $50,000 in scholarships to 50 graduating high school seniors in South Orange County. Each student was awarded $1,000 to go toward their fall college semester, scheduled to begin in the next couple of weeks. Headed by Walter Switzer, chair of Coral Thrift Shop Scholarship Committee, the scholarship committee comprises the thrift store’s own staff. All Coral Thrift Shop profits, donations, and their staff’s salaries go toward the store’s scholarship program.
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https://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/coral-thrift-shop-awards-scholarships-to-50-local-high-school-seniors/ |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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A Peninsula school district is offering pandemic day care for working families. Not everyone can afford it |
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San Carlos parents are cheering that the school district is offering full-time pandemic day care to working parents, but the cost — $1,750 a month — means it’s out of reach for some families. The program, an extension of a paid after-school program, will offer two teachers to supervise play time and distance learning for a group of 12 to 15 students in transitional kindergarten to third grade who bring their own classwork and technology.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/A-Peninsula-school-district-is-offering-pandemic-15458112.php |
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USA TODAY
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Kids less likely to die from coronavirus, but schools could become hot spots for spread |
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As many school districts across the USA prepare to reopen campuses, some fear classrooms will become the next incubators for large coronavirus outbreaks. About 245,000 youth from birth to 17 have tested positive, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hundreds have transmitted the virus at summer camps and youth programs that have welcomed kids, often with the kinds of hygiene, masking and physical distancing rules proposed by many schools. It's unknown how effectively children might spread the virus to both kids and adults.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/08/05/covid-19-back-school-plans-fuel-fear-spread-children-adults/5572061002/ |
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'Hoping it goes well': Students among first to return offer lessons for reopening schools |
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Abigail Alexander shuffled through a stack of papers trying to find instructions for logging in to her school-issued laptop. The 10-year-old chatted with her best friend, a fellow fifth grader, about who is in their classes this year at Head Middle Magnet Prep in Nashville and what period they have a specific teacher. Their conversation Tuesday sounded like a typical one between excited, anxious students on the first day at a new school — except this year's first day of school was like no other.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/08/06/covid-19-returning-students-provide-lessons-reopening-schools/3304403001/ |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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Monterey Peninsula Unified School District to offer free child care for teachers, staff |
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As the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District begins to ramp up the start to the school year, teachers and other staff members who are parents will have one less thing to worry about as the district will provide free child care. “What we heard in the spring from many of our teachers was that it was extremely challenging to have to teach from home while also caring for their children,” said MPUSD Superintendent PK Diffenbaugh. He said the program is for any MPUSD employee who has a child and the child does not have to be a student in the district.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/06/monterey-peninsula-unified-school-district-to-offer-free-child-care-for-teachers-staff/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Alternative schools’ ‘relentless’ fight to keep track of students during pandemic |
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When Amistad continuation high school closed its campus in March due to the pandemic, the staff went into overdrive to stay in touch with students. They called all 205. If a student’s phone was disconnected, they went to the student’s house. If no one answered, they asked neighbors. Amistad High is typical of California’s 430 alternative schools in its commitment to keeping track of students during the pandemic — students who are at especially high risk of dropping out, said Gerardo Abrica, president of the California Continuation Education Association and a math teacher at an alternative school in Tulare County.
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https://edsource.org/2020/alternative-schools-relentless-fight-to-keep-track-of-students-during-pandemic/637750 |
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Official figures released on state, federal CARES Act funding to districts to address Covid-19 |
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As Congress and President Trump wrestle over how much to provide in the next round of relief from the coronavirus, California school districts, county offices of education and charter schools must decide what to do with the $6.8 billion that’s already coming their way. They’ll have flexibility but not much time. In passing the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March, Congress set a Dec. 31 deadline to spend the money.
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https://edsource.org/2020/official-figures-released-on-state-federal-cares-act-funding-to-districts-to-address-covid-19/637746 |
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California makes internet-enabled tablets available to nearly 1 million students |
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California education officials working to equip all students with computers and internet at home announced a new initiative on Wednesday that could connect up to 1 million students with internet-enabled tablets during distance learning this school year. Nearly 97% of California’s 6.2 million students will start the next school year from their homes as the number of coronavirus cases continues to increase across the state. But nearly 700,000 students are still without the technology they need in order to participate in online classes while schools are closed for in-person instruction, according to the latest estimates from the California Department of Education.
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https://edsource.org/2020/california-makes-internet-enabled-tablets-available-to-nearly-1-million-students/637773 |
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KPCC
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Most Teachers Concerned About In-Person School; 2 In 3 Want To Start The Year Online |
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As the school year starts in many districts across the country, a new national poll of teachers from NPR/Ipsos finds overwhelming trepidation about returning to the physical classroom. Eighty-two percent of K-12 teachers say they are concerned about returning to in-person teaching this fall, and two-thirds prefer to teach primarily remotely. On the latter point, teachers are aligned with parents and the general public.
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https://scpr.org/news/2020/08/06/93926/most-teachers-concerned-about-in-person-school-2-i/ |
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KPBS
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San Diego County Creates Grant Program For Day Care Providers Hurt By Pandemic |
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Child care providers in San Diego County can now apply for cash grants to help them stay in business. The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to spend $25 million in federal CARES Act funding on grants to existing child care providers that are struggling to stay afloat because of class-size restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/aug/05/san-diego-daycares-can-apply-grants-cover-covid-ex/ |
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