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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Five things to know about Sunburst Youth Academy |
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A non-traditional high school in Orange County is giving students who’ve faced significant obstacles a second chance at life. Operated by the California National Guard in partnership with OCDE, Sunburst Youth Academy is a community high school for at-risk youth. Students who attend the program are immersed for five and a half months in a military-style environment where they can earn high school credits while developing leadership, pride, confidence and academic skills. During their time at Sunburst, cadets live on base, attend high school during the day and work on physical fitness, life skills, team building and goal setting activities before and after school.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/five-things-to-know-about-sunburst-youth-academy/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Huntington Beach high school district to begin in-person instruction Nov. 3 |
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Huntington Beach High School math teacher Benji Medure knows about bringing people together to face a challenge. He coaches the school’s successful baseball team that competes in Division 1 of the CIF Southern Section. It’s with that spirit that Medure is embracing the reopening of classrooms in the Huntington Beach Union High School District amid the coronavirus pandemic. The district is scheduled to begin in-person instruction in its hybrid plan on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/31/huntington-beach-high-school-district-to-begin-in-person-instruction-nov-3/ |
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OC School of the Arts delays start of in-person learning to January |
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The Orange County School of the Arts will delay its start of in-person learning to Jan. 11. The Santa Ana-based public charter school, known for its arts conservatories, was to start in-person learning as part of its hybrid model on Wednesday, Nov. 4. The school’s Board of Trustees approved the revised plan Friday, Oct. 30. A majority of the school’s 80 academic teachers objected to the Nov. 4 date, saying they were concerned for their safety amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/30/oc-school-of-the-arts-delays-start-of-in-person-learning-to-january/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Mid-semester, many L.A. students are drifting, beset with anxiety and struggling in class |
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Every day, almost every one of Nicolle Fefferman’s students logs into her virtual classrooms at John Marshall High School in Los Feliz. A significant number do not turn their cameras on. Many don’t respond when she asks questions and don’t turn in work she assigns offline.
When the history teacher issued her 10-week progress reports, nearly one-third of her students were failing.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-02/teachers-distance-learning-difficulties-los-angeles |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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LAUSD likely won’t reopen before January at earliest, teachers union affirms |
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Schools in Los Angeles Unified likely won’t reopen until January at the earliest, the head of the teachers union said Friday, Oct. 30, affirming a timeline that school board members are said to support. “Given L.A. County’s rising COVID infections, we believe the earliest possible date for a safe and academically sound physical return to school is the beginning of the second semester — January 2021,” Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, said during her weekly message to union members.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2020/10/30/lausd-likely-wont-reopen-before-january-at-earliest-teachers-union-affirms/ |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Here’s why reopening high schools in a pandemic is tricky |
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On Oct. 20, campuses in the Vista Unified School District opened to the general student body for the first time since March, in a move to bring 10,000 students back to classrooms. Just days later, in separate incidents, two students tested positive for COVID-19. The students most likely did not catch the infection at school, but they could spread it there. And with six or seven high school classes each, that potential for transmission is multiplied.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2020-11-01/high-school-reopening |
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USA TODAY
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Kids are now in school at majority of nation’s biggest districts – just as COVID cases surge |
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The U.S. has entered a second round of back-to-school, just as the coronavirus surges around the nation. In smaller school districts, careful in-person reopenings in August and September didn’t lead to an explosion of COVID-19 cases. And now, the country's largest school systems, which had largely eschewed in-person instruction, are venturing partially back into the classroom. The majority of the 15 largest districts in the nation now have at least some students in school buildings. Only two of those districts had any form of in-person learning as of early September.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/11/01/school-covid-cases-us-surge/5992498002/ |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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Coronavirus: Failing grades spike in Bay Area schools with distance learning |
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The first round of progress reports are being sent home for students caught in California’s experiment with online distance learning this fall, and for many, the grades are not good.
Districts around the Bay Area are reporting sharp spikes in failing grades so far this fall during a term that has largely been taught online over computers to students stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/01/coronavirus-failing-grades-spike-with-fall-term-distance-learning/ |
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PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH
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First the UCs didn’t require SAT, and now it’s not allowed, say judges |
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In a unanimous decision, a three-member panel of the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco lifted a stay on the lower court injunction, thus barring campuses from accepting or considering the scores for at least the 2021-2022 school year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The court noted that six of 10 UC campuses already agreed not to accept the test scores this year.
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https://www.presstelegram.com/2020/10/30/first-the-ucs-didnt-require-sat-and-now-its-not-allowed-say-judges/ |
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