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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Huntington Beach City School District lands new superintendent |
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A veteran educational leader from Laguna Beach Unified has been tapped to serve as the next superintendent of the Huntington Beach City School District. Dr. Leisa Winston, whose career spans more than 20 years as an elementary special education teacher, program specialist, director, assistant superintendent and deputy superintendent, will assume the role of HBCSD’s top administrator pending contract negotiations and final approval by the school board on Dec. 15. With an anticipated start date of Jan. 4, she will take the reigns from Greg Magnuson, who will continue to serve as interim superintendent through December.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/huntington-beach-city-school-district-lands-new-superintendent/ |
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OC Pathways Showcase takes a virtual journey through career and technical education in Orange County |
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“It’s never too early to start building your network.” That’s the advice Doug Palladini, global brand president for Vans, said he would give to high school students as they equip themselves for a successful career. “Connect the dots, find something you’re passionate about, and connect that passion back to your work,” said Palladini. “It’s never too early to start.” Building a passionate network of business leaders and connecting them to students and educators is exactly the mission of OC Pathways, which on Nov. 18 celebrated six years of developing career pathway opportunities and programs in Orange County.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/oc-pathways-showcase-takes-a-virtual-journey-through-career-and-technical-education-in-orange-county/ |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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East Bay teens develop sanitizing drone to help clean school during pandemic |
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Dublin High School’s robotics team has come up with a creative solution to help clean parts of the school outside during the pandemic — a sanitizing drone. They call it the TERSUS Project — meaning “clean” in Latin, and also an acronym for Technologically Effective Rapid Smart Unmanned Sanitizer. The drone was designed by the Gael Force Robotics Team, and the project has 10 students working to design, construct and eventually fly the sanitizing drone.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/11/19/east-bay-teens-develop-sanitizing-drone-to-help-clean-school-during-pandemic/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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San Bernardino campuses will stay closed through 2020-21 school year |
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With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations again on the rise in San Bernardino County, a majority of San Bernardino City Unified school board members have voted to keep instruction exclusively online through the end of the 2020-21 school year. Only students with “extreme needs” will be allowed to return to campus to learn in small groups when state and county health officials say it’s safe to do so, the Board of Education said.
It is unclear at the moment how or when those students will be selected.
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https://www.sbsun.com/2020/11/18/san-bernardino-campuses-will-stay-closed-through-2020-21-school-year/ |
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EDSOURCE
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How Kusema Thomas missed six weeks of distance learning in LA Unified middle school |
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Kusema Thomas II got Fs on his first sixth-grade report card at a Los Angeles Unified middle school. His homeroom teacher marked him absent for 38 days over 10 weeks.
The grades hardly came as a shock. Kusema hadn’t attended classes for most of the first six weeks of school at the Stephen M. White Middle School STEAM Magnet.
But not for lack of interest or for lack of trying.
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https://edsource.org/2020/how-kusema-thomas-missed-6-weeks-of-distance-learning-in-6th-grade-in-la-unified/644077 |
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DAILY BREEZE
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Manhattan Beach Unified TK-2 graders to be back in school after Thanksgiving |
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Manhattan Beach Unified School District will soon bring students from transitional kindergarten to second grade back to campuses after months of entirely virtual learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. But they will have to wait until after Thanksgiving.
The district has received approval from the LA County Department of Public Health to let those students return to campus on a hybrid basis — meaning part of their instruction will remain virtual — and will start doing so on Dec. 1.
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https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/11/18/manhattan-beach-unified-tk-2-graders-to-be-back-in-school-after-thanksgiving/ |
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KQED
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Child Care System for Families in Need on Verge of Collapse, Warn Providers |
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Child care providers who care for some of California's neediest families have been warning for months that the system is going to collapse if they don’t get help soon. In-home providers already operated on razor-thin margins. Now, those who take care of kids receiving state subsidies for care say their costs and responsibilities are skyrocketing, and support from the state has not kept pace. The newly formed union representing those providers, Child Care Providers United (CCPU), filed on Tuesday an unfair labor practice complaint against the state, accusing officials of failing to collaborate with providers on solutions to pandemic-related issues.
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https://www.kqed.org/news/11847863/child-care-providers-say-californias-subsidized-system-is-collapsing-under-pandemic-pressure |
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CALmatters
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Not dire, for now: California expects $26 billion windfall despite pandemic |
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The good news: The recession California officials predicted in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic has not been as dire as they thought it would be, leaving the state with a $26 billion windfall heading into the next fiscal year. The bad news: A reason for the unanticipated cash reveals the state’s stark economic divide. Pandemic-induced job losses have been concentrated among low-wage workers, who pay relatively little taxes to begin with, while wealthy residents have continued to make money and pay taxes, leading to much greater tax collections than officials predicted in early summer.
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https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/11/not-dire-for-now-california-expects-26-billion-windfall-despite-pandemic/ |
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