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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Buena Park School District fills vacancy on board |
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Buena Park School District trustees have tapped a district parent to fill a vacant board seat. The seat was left open in August by the resignation of former school board president Brian Chambers, according to a district release.
After interviewing five candidates at a special meeting on Sept. 6, trustees appointed Tharwa Ahmad.
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/09/18/buena-park-school-district-fills-vacancy-on-board/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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LAUSD to try out sex ed classes for fourth-graders |
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The Los Angeles Unified School District will test new sex education lessons this year for children as young as 9 years old. “Puberty: The Wonder Years,” a course authored by renowned health educator and nurse Wendy Sellers, is among the lessons that will be offered to fourth-grade students, as well as those in fifth and sixth grades at a handful of schools. Why is sex ed necessary for students who are so young? Because ignorance doesn’t help anyone, Sellers said. |
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http://www.dailynews.com/2017/09/17/lausd-to-try-out-sex-ed-classes-for-fourth-graders-2/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Rocklin charter schools OK transgender books in elementary school |
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A Rocklin school board voted unanimously late Monday night to retain the policies that allowed a book about a transgender child to be read in kindergarten, but adopted a provision to forewarn parents of potentially controversial subject matter. The vote followed months of controversy that erupted over the book being read at a Rocklin charter school’s story time. |
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http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article174072431.html |
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EDSOURCE
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Vinnie Pompei wants you to know that we're all biased, and we can work with that |
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Vincent “Vinnie” Pompei is director of the Youth Well-Being Project of the Human Rights Campaign, a national civil rights organization, and the chair of Time to Thrive, an annual national conference about LGBT student inclusion. He spent more than 10 years as a middle school teacher and high school counselor in the Paramount and Val Verde unified school districts in Southern California. Pompei is also a past president of the California Association of School Counselors. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/vinnie-pompei-wants-you-to-know-that-were-all-biased-and-we-can-work-with-that/586200 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Bar on surprise bills makes for a routine end of session |
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Lawmakers closed the legislative session on Friday, sending hundreds of bills to the governor including one adjusting the spending cap imposed on school districts, and another that would hike in state support for home-to-school transportation. Gov. Jerry Brown has also begun wadding through the cascade of paperwork, signing a budget amendment that adjusts the fee schedule for child care and preschool services, as well as extending the California-Grown Fresh School Meals program another three years through July, 2021. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/politics-education/bar-on-surprise-bills-makes-for-a-routine-end-of-session |
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NPR
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Research Shows Spanish Speakers Take Longer To Learn English. Why? |
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A recent study out of Philadelphia tracked kindergartners who were learning English and found that four years later there were major discrepancies between which groups of students had mastered the language. Students whose home language was Spanish were considerably less likely to reach proficiency than any other subgroup. And, on the extreme end, Spanish speakers were almost half as likely as Chinese speakers to cross the proficiency threshold. |
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http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/09/15/545629043/research-shows-spanish-speakers-take-longer-to-learn-english-why |
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How One Group Is Working To Build A More Diverse Teaching Force |
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There are more nonwhite teachers than there used to be. But the nation's teaching force still doesn't look like America. One former education school dean is out to change that.
New research shows that the number of K-12 teachers who belong to minority groups has doubled since the 1980s, growing at a faster rate than the profession as a whole. But big gaps persist, with around 80 percent of teachers identifying as white.
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http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/09/19/547855939/how-one-group-is-working-to-build-a-more-diverse-teaching-force |
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