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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Santa Ana students ask astronaut about life on the International Space Station during live stream |
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Students at Mendez Intermediate School in Santa Ana Unified spent part of their morning Thursday peppering an astronaut with questions about life in outer space. Astronaut Ricky Arnold, orbiting about 255 miles above California on the International Space Station, answered the gamut of questions through a live audio stream, ranging from what research his team is currently conducting to how they use the bathroom in zero gravity. |
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/santa-ana-students-ask-astronaut-about-life-on-the-international-space-station-during-live-stream/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Students take part in pirate battles aboard tall ships, as part of DA’s gang prevention program |
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Altair Ayoub, 9, of Anaheim was among 200 fourth- and fifth-grade students who got a chance on Thursday, Sept. 6, to sail aboard five tall ships that left Dana Point Harbor and participated in mock cannon battles on the high seas just off the Dana Point Headlands. The students — who came from schools in Anaheim, Buena Park and Fullerton — earned their opportunities for the special outing for improving their performance, behavior or attendance. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/09/06/students-take-part-in-pirate-battles-aboard-tall-ships-as-part-of-das-gang-prevention-program/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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At LAUSD, 1 in 4 kindergartners is chronically absent. It’s costing the district millions |
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Los Angeles Unified has a multimillion-dollar problem: kids aren’t coming to school. And it’s particularly bad among their youngest students. New district data show that 1 in 4 kindergartners misses 15 or more days of school each year. This year’s message to parents and school staff is: Keep the number of days any student is absent to seven or less. And parents will start seeing that message at their schools this Friday, which the district is designating “Attendance Matters Day.” |
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https://www.dailynews.com/2018/09/06/at-lausd-1-in-4-kindergartners-is-chronically-absent-its-costing-the-district-millions/ |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Referee sues San Diego Unified School District and former student for $1 million |
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A high school football referee has sued the San Diego Unified School District and a teenage Crawford High graduate, claiming $1 million in damages for injuries that he says the former student caused him during a game three years ago. The referee, John Herlich, claims that Crawford athletics officials knew of, but failed to stop, intentionally aggressive and unsportsmanlike behavior from the football player, including multiple late hits, which he says led to his injuries |
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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-me-referee-lawsuit-20180904-story.html#nt=oft12aH-2la1 |
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EDSOURCE
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Chronic absenteeism pervasive in California and nationwide, report shows |
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Nearly 8 million students nationwide were chronically absent during the 2015-16 school year, with California accounting for more than 760,000 of those children, according to a report released last week representing the most comprehensive analysis to date of chronic absenteeism in the nation’s schools. These numbers equate to approximately 15 percent of all students nationally and 12 percent in California. |
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https://edsource.org/2018/chronic-absenteeism-pervasive-in-california-and-nationwide-report-shows/601980 |
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California to add chronic absenteeism, career/college indicators to education 'dashboard' |
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After lengthy discussion, a conflicted State Board of Education voted Thursday to expand the college/career readiness indicator and to add it and chronic absenteeism to the next version, later this year, of the California School Dashboard. The dashboard, introduced last year, rates schools and school districts on a number of areas of student performance, including test scores, graduation rates and suspension rates. |
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https://edsource.org/2018/california-to-add-chronic-absenteeism-career-college-indicators-to-education-dashboard/602050 |
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CALmatters
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As school year begins, California ends practice that uprooted migrant students |
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Oscar Ramos teaches students of migrant farm workers in his classroom at Sherwood Elementary School in Salinas, California. He sees students disappear because they must follow the crops with their parents, moving from town to town, making a steady education difficult. One year, a 4th grade teacher started the year with 28 students and ended with just three. One reason that’s been happening in some California communities: the “50-mile regulation” defining who qualifies to live in one of 24 state-subsidized migrant housing centers. |
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https://calmatters.org/articles/california-stops-uprooting-migrant-students-50-mile-regulation-exemption/ |
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