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Governor gives California students a seat at the table |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation last week that will give student representatives seats on the new state Advisory Commission on Special Education, as well as on an advisory board for each school district’s Local Control and Accountability Plan. He also signed Senate Bill 955, which will give middle and high school students one excused absence to take part in civic activities like candidate forums and town halls. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/governor-gives-california-students-a-seat-at-the-table |
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California will now break down data by English learner subgroup |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law, that will break down academic achievement data for subgroups of English learners. Assembly Bill 1868 requires the California Department of Education to report standardized test scores in English language arts, math and science for subgroups of English learners, including long-term English learners, defined as students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools for six years or more and have not advanced on the English proficiency test in two or more years, and those at risk of becoming long-term English learners. The bill also requires the department to report how many students are both English learners and have a disability. |
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#california-will-now-break-down-data-by-english-learner-subgroup |
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Newsom vetos bill to expand school health clinics |
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A bill that would have doubled the number of health clinics at California schools died Friday when Gov. Newsom vetoed it. AB 1940 would have set aside $100 million to create or expand health clinics on school campuses, offering free medical and dental care, reproductive health care and mental health services to students and in some cases, the local community. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/newsom-vetos-bill-to-expand-school-health-clinics |
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Huge Workload, Low Pay: Close to Half of California Teachers Thinking About Leaving the Profession |
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Amid significant teacher shortages in school districts throughout California, a new survey (PDF) of thousands of educators depicts a profession marked heavily by burnout and job dissatisfaction. “Close to half of teachers are thinking about leaving the profession in the next three years,” said Tyrone Howard, co-faculty director of UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, which produced the report in collaboration with the California Teachers Association and Hart Research Associates. |
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https://www.kqed.org/news/11927544/huge-workload-low-pay-close-to-half-of-california-teachers-thinking-about-leaving-the-profession |
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LA District downplays student harm after cyber gang posts sensitive data online |
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The Vice Society ransomware gang reportedly published over the weekend a trove of sensitive student records from the Los Angeles school district. The data was posted to the gang’s dark-web “leak site,” after education leaders refused to pay — and at first even acknowledge — a ransom. Yet in a press conference Monday, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho sought to downplay the damage done, particularly as it relates to records about children. An initial news report on the data dump said that student psychiatric evaluation records had been published online, citing a confidential law enforcement source. That reporting, Carvalho said, is “absolutely incorrect.” |
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https://www.laschoolreport.com/cyber-gang-posts-los-angeles-students-sensitive-data-on-dark-web-after-hack/ |
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Racism Sidelines 2 California High School Football Teams |
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Two recent racist incidents involving a mock slave auction and violence against Black people have sidelined two Sacramento-area high schools for the remainder of the varsity football season. The Sacramento Bee reported Monday that Amador High School canceled the rest of its season because of a Snapchat group named “Kill the Blacks" and that River Valley High School in Yuba City forfeited its Friday game after a TikTok video created by players involving a mock slave auction surfaced. |
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https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/racism-california-high-school-football-teams/3019940/ |
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Hank Waddles saw all the ‘Why I Quit Teaching’ essays—so he explained why he stayed |
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For the last two years, social media has been awash with a new subgenre of writing: the “Why I Quit Teaching” essay. After two challenging years for students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic, waves of educators have been leaving the profession or retiring early, with many having their say on the way out the door. Long Beach wasn’t immune, with an uptick in the number of Long Beach Unified School District employees retiring. Stanford Middle School teacher Hank Waddles saw those personal stories of frustration, and on the eve of the 2022-23 school year, he wrote his response, a blog post titled “Why I Teach” that could just as easily have been called “Why I Didn’t Quit Teaching.” Waddles’ post is a tribute to the joys of being a teacher—in contrast to the many pieces from exasperated educators making the rounds on social media. |
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https://lbpost.com/news/education/why-i-didnt-quit-teaching-essay-lbusd |
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