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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Teens flock to flavored vaping. Mango, strawberry, mint e-cigarettes hide grave health dangers |
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High schoolers rallying in downtown Los Angeles this week chanted “Fight the flavor” as they showed their support for banning the flavored tobacco products that health experts say are fueling an epidemic of nicotine addiction among youths. Among the demonstrators was Jennyfer Cortez, 16, who said she tried an e-cigarette for the first time five years ago because it tasted like blueberries, her favorite fruit. She didn’t like vaping because it made her cough, but she has seen her peers vape at their lockers, in the school bathroom and sometimes even in class.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-25/flavored-tobacco-vaping-ban-menthol-cigarettes |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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A top charter school got California’s first desegregation order in 50 years |
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Willow Creek is at the center of an emotional battle that has brought fresh attention to long-festering racial inequities in liberal Marin County. Last month, the tiny Sausalito Marin City School District was hit with the state's first school desegregation order in half a century. The district has just two schools: Willow Creek, with an enrollment of 361, and Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy, a traditional K-8 campus located a little more than a mile away in Marin City, across the 101 Freeway. Its 104 students are predominantly African American and Latino.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article235495297.html#storylink=cpy |
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PRESS-ENTERPRISE
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Student dies 9 days after campus attack at Moreno Valley Landmark Middle School |
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The 13-year-old boy whose head hit a pillar during what authorities called an attack by two other students at Moreno Valley Landmark Middle School has been pronounced clinically dead. The boy, identified as Diego, was hospitalized after the Sept. 16 incident and died from his injuries, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
“Preparations by Diego’s family are underway for organ donation to transform this tragedy into the gift of life for other children,” the agency said.
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https://www.pe.com/2019/09/25/moreno-valley-landmark-middle-school-student-dies-from-fight-injuries/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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FRESNO BEE
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Hundreds of California school administrators have pensions that exceed IRS limits |
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Hundreds of California school administrators hired decades ago are collecting retirement incomes that are too big to qualify as public pensions under federal tax law.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System issued payments last year for 359 pensions over the IRS public pension limit, according to the retirement system’s data.
Today, pensions for teachers and administrators hired after Jan. 1, 2013 are less generous. California that year capped public pensions at a limit the IRS sets each year. The IRS limit varies per person based on retirement age, years worked and a range of benefit decisions, but is based on a benchmark annual amount that in 2018 was $220,000.
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article235407962.html |
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EDSOURCE
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More math adds up to more Long Beach high school students eligible for college |
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As California grapples with how much math students need to qualify for admission to its public universities, leaders of at least one school district say they have it figured out.
Nearly six years ago, Long Beach Unified decided to increase the number of years students have to take math for a high school diploma from two to four years. Since adding the more stringent requirements, the proportion of 12th-graders in the district meeting the minimum California State University admissions requirements went from 38 percent in 2014-15 to 58 percent in 2018-19, according to district data.
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https://edsource.org/2019/more-math-adds-up-to-more-long-beach-high-school-students-eligible-for-college/617953 |
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KPCC
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Cal State Scrapped 'Remedial' Math, And So Far Students Are Getting Along Fine |
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Earlier this year, we reported a pretty dismal statistic: in the summer of 2017, more than 2,700 freshmen were dropped from the rolls in the 23-campus California State University system because they hadn't passed their remedial math and English classes in their first year. Clearly, the system wasn't working — so in 2017 Cal State administrators scrapped the remedial classes and began creating courses and tinkering with existing ones to better prepare students for college-level work. The new approach went into effect last year.
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https://laist.com/2019/09/26/cal-state-remedial-math-english-college-prep-student-graduation-rates.php |
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LAUSD Abruptly Cracks Down On Charter Schools That Took District Classrooms, Then Didn't Use Them All |
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A state law known as Prop. 39 requires California school districts to offer classrooms at a relatively modest cost to any charter school that asks for them — and in L.A., many charters do ask. Roughly one out of every five charter schools in the city is "co-located" on an LAUSD campus. But recently — and abruptly — LAUSD officials have decided to crack down on co-located charter schools that over-estimated the amount of space they'd need. On Tuesday, LAUSD leaders said they're demanding payment of hefty "over-allocation fees" from 41 co-located charter schools that, in the end, didn't enroll enough students to justify the number of classrooms the district gave them
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https://laist.com/2019/09/25/lausd_charter_schools_colocation_prop_39_classroom_space_overallocation.php |
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