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OCDE NEWSROOM
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School backpack giveaway helps take away ‘obstacles to learning’ |
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School supplies can be pricey, no matter how students prepare for school. To help some students and their families, the Santa Ana Unified School District and the nonprofit Regional Center of Orange County held separate events on Saturday, Aug. 5, to provide free backpacks and school supplies. In an inaugural back-to-school bash at the district’s sports complex, the district gave away 3,500 backpacks, each filled with $20 worth of school supplies. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/05/school-backpack-giveaway-helps-take-away-obstacles-to-learning/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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This college-prep STEM program has a 100% high school graduation success rate |
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Over 20 years ago when Paul Riordan was teaching U.S. history at Santa Ana High School, he had a bright student who suddenly stopped showing up to class.
“He was always two chapters ahead of me,” Riordan said of teaching the student. “Then he was gone for a couple of weeks and that bothered me.” |
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http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-wknd-et-aiss-20170803-story.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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High school football participation dropping in Bay Area, state, US |
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A survey released last week by the California Interscholastic Federation discovered that while overall high school sports participation continues to increase, football participation actually decreased by 3.12 percent over the past year and about 10 percent over the past decade. That is the second consecutive year that football participation decreased by more than 3 percent, although it still remains the high school sport with the most participants in the state. |
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http://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/High-school-football-participation-dropping-in-11736944.php |
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WASHINGTON POST
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What should America do about its worst public schools? States still don’t seem to know. |
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Two years after Congress scrapped federal formulas for fixing troubled schools, states for the most part are producing only the vaguest of plans to address persistent educational failure. So far, 16 states and the District of Columbia have submitted proposals for holding schools accountable under the 2015 law known as the Every Student Succeeds Act. With few exceptions, the blueprints offer none of the detailed prescriptions for intervention, such as mass teacher firings or charter-school conversions, that were once standard elements of school reform. |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/2017/08/06/db2d6dcc-76c6-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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San Jose Unified creates gender-neutral restrooms on all campuses |
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Responding both to student demand and a change in state law, the San Jose Unified School District expects to designate at least one gender-neutral restroom at each of its campuses and offices by the end of the calendar year. The district’s Lincoln High paved the way for the move, when in April 2016 the school created more restrooms available to all genders. |
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http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/04/san-jose-unified-creates-gender-neutral-restrooms-on-all-campuses/ |
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The later the better? Sleep-in bill would change school start times for some California students |
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Here’s a bedtime story for you: Asking middle school and high school students to attend class earlier than 8:30 a.m. is setting them up to fail. So contends Start School Later, a nonprofit coalition of health professionals and educators with 94 chapters in 26 states. Citing, well, you name it — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Medical Association, the National Sleep Foundation — Start School Later lobbies, ardently, for later school start times for teenage students. |
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http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/06/the-later-the-better-sleep-in-bill-would-change-school-start-times-for-california-students/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Growing number of California schools districts offer students free college entrance exam |
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An increasing number of school districts and charter school organizations in California are offering either the SAT or ACT, the other college readiness test, for free to all high school juniors. Newly published research concluded that one benefit — a statistically significant increase in 4-year college enrollment — shows the effort is a smart investment. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/more-evidence-supports-school-districts-that-offer-free-satact-to-all-students/585696 |
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KPCC
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Like in middle school, charter schools' kindergarten vaccination rates trail district-run schools |
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Seventh graders in California charter schools were significantly less likely than their peers in district-run public schools to have received all of the vaccinations state law requires last year, KPCC reported last week.
Now, a follow-up analysis of state Department of Public Health data revealed roughly the same gap between charter schools — publicly-funded, but run by independent boards and non-profits — and their district counterparts in another grade: kindergarten. |
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http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/07/74389/like-in-middle-school-charter-schools-kindergarten/ |
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New effort to reform early education gives some a sense of déjà vu |
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A group of researchers, policymakers and educators is working to streamline the state’s complicated early childhood education system. Unlike the K-12 system — where funding, curriculum and training is centralized — the early childhood system is splintered. A similar group tried to do the same thing 30 years ago, but no major policy changes materialized. |
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http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/08/07/74345/new-effort-to-reform-early-education-gives-some-a/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Video: Summer program in Saddleback Valley uses the arts to promote English literacy |
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Beth Sussman, a teaching artist with the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, calls it “covert learning.” That’s because this summer enrichment program for English language learners in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District makes lessons fun by blending critical literacy skills with the arts. “They’re having a great time,” Sussman said. “They don’t even realize they’re learning all this stuff.” |
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/video-summer-program-in-saddleback-valley-uses-the-arts-to-promote-english-literacy/ |
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