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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

OCDE NEWSROOM

OCDE’s homeless education program seeks supplies for local families
OCDE’s stockpile of supplies for families experiencing homelessness is running on empty. Jeanne Awrey, who coordinates the department’s homeless education program and oversees the OCDE-led HOPES Collaborative, says the pandemic has taken its toll, driving up demand for clothes, shoes, diapers, hygiene products, laundry detergent, school supplies and other necessities.
https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocdes-homeless-education-program-needs-supplies-for-local-families/

LOS ANGELES TIMES

DAILY PILOT
After 8 months of online classes, secondary students return to Newport-Mesa campuses
Cars flowed into the Costa Mesa High School one after another — one car door would open, one student would get out. Teachers and employees were checked for their temperatures, each clad in masks as students hustled across campus to beat the first-period bell. Monday was the first day “back” to school for thousands of secondary students in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. The first cohort of secondary students returned to campuses across Newport Beach and Costa Mesa this Monday. The second cohort will begin on Thursday.
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-11-09/after-8-months-of-online-classes-secondary-students-return-to-newport-mesa-campuses

No sharing, use ‘airplane arms’: Las Virgenes kids are among first in L.A. to return to school
Learning to share is typically among the first lessons for kindergartners. But not when hundreds arrived on campus Monday, the first public school children in Los Angeles County to return to something like a regular classroom amid surging coronavirus infections. No shared pencils or crayons. No sitting together at tables. No bouncing a ball from one person to another. Use outstretched “airplane arms” to keep distant from classmates. The first groups of students returned to campuses Monday after Calabasas-headquartered district received waivers from the county to reopen schools for kindergarten to 2nd grade students.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-09/coronvirus-reopening-public-private-schools-las-virgenes

VOICE OF OC

Santa Ana High School Students Tackle Distance Learning; District Adapts to Offer More Support
For months, as some school districts across Orange County reopened classrooms, Santa Ana Unified School District officials held off as high virus case rates in the surrounding neighborhoods – among the highest in the county –  made opening impossible. That’s forced students to quickly navigate the ups and downs of online learning, with mixed results for many. 
https://voiceofoc.org/2020/11/santa-ana-high-school-students-tackle-distance-learning-district-adapts-to-offer-more-support/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Here’s how Biden’s win could help California school districts, teachers and students
Biden’s education plan focuses on increasing school support, including a significant boost in what the federal government covers for special education services, while doubling the number of psychologists, counselors, nurses and social workers in schools.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Here-s-how-Biden-s-win-could-help-California-15714496.php

WASHINGTON POST

With DeVos out, Biden plans series of reversals on education
Under Trump, the Education Department has been led by Secretary Betsy DeVos, who alienated many by casting public schools as failures and promoting alternatives to them. Through executive action and negotiations with Congress, Biden wants to bolster public schools. He has promised hundreds of billions of dollars in new education spending, for preschool through college. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/biden-education-change/2020/11/08/b5b25c7a-21d5-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Some Livermore parents fed up with distance learning, demand schools reopen
Some Livermore school district parents, fed up with distance learning at home and not happy with the way the district is deciding whether to reopen its elementary schools, are calling on the schools to use a hybrid model.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/09/some-livermore-parents-fed-up-with-distance-learning-demand-schools-reopen/

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE

Coronavirus outbreak temporarily closes campus at La Puente High
An outbreak of the coronavirus has resulted in the temporary closing of the La Puente High School campus, district officials have confirmed. Superintendent Alfonso Jimenez in a Nov. 6 letter to the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District community said that seven positive cases were reported among people working at the high school.
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2020/11/09/coronavirus-outbreak-temporarily-closes-campus-at-la-puente-high/

VENTURA COUNTY STAR

Ventura County's smallest school districts face issues reopening
With 20 public school districts of varying sizes in Ventura County, the path to school reopening differs based on size, geography, enrollment and a host of other factors. Some of the smaller school districts, though similar to local private schools in size, don't necessarily have the same funding or manpower to reopen. 
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/2020/11/10/ventura-county-school-reopening-plans-small-school-districts/6037375002/


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