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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading |
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Alhambra High School English teacher Joshua Moreno is working to align grades with what students are learning, not on behavior, deadlines or quantity of work. A few years ago, high school teacher Joshua Moreno got fed up with his grading system, which had become a points game. Some students accumulated so many points early on that by the end of the term they knew they didn’t need to do more work and could still get an A. Others — often those who had to work or care for family members after school — would fail to turn in their homework and fall so far behind that they would just stop trying.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-08/as-ds-and-fs-soar-schools-ditch-inequitable-grade-systems |
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VOICE OF OC
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Students to Vote on Changing Anaheim High School’s ‘Colonists’ Mascot as Pushback Continues |
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It’s been exactly a 100 years to the day since Anaheim High Students first decided their mascot name — the Colonists. Now, a century later, Anaheim High School students will vote to either keep the controversial mascot, get rid of it — or keep the name, but change the imagery behind it following growing community calls to replace “the colonists” mascot and the symbols associated with it, according to the school website.
The vote is also taking place amid Native American Heritage Month and pushback from community members and some of Orange County’s indigenous residents who say the mascot is a racist symbol.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2021/11/students-to-vote-on-changing-anaheim-high-schools-colonists-mascot-as-pushback-continues/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Sen. Padilla, other officials buoy LAUSD’s efforts to give vaccines to students 5-11 |
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Some of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s youngest learners received their first coronavirus vaccine dose on Monday, Nov. 8, as the nation’s second-largest school district rolled out its vaccination program to children ages 5 to 11. Mobile vaccination teams will be deployed to various school sites this week to administer pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Thirteen school-based clinics will start offering the doses as well beginning Nov. 16. Some school-based clinics will also be open on select Saturdays.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/08/sen-padilla-other-officials-buoy-lausds-efforts-to-give-vaccines-to-students-5-11/ |
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EDSOURCE
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SAT and ACT slip in priority among California high school students |
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In a normal year, high school senior Marissa Cuellar would have prepped a lot before she took the dreaded SAT exam, working for a solid score to bolster her college applications. After all, she is a very good student, with a lot of extracurricular activities, and could be a competitive candidate for such campuses as the University of California San Diego and Stanford.
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https://edsource.org/2021/sat-and-act-slip-in-priority-among-california-high-school-students/663354 |
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Find out how much California school districts and charter schools will get in Covid relief | Database |
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The $15.3 billion that California is receiving from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is the last and biggest of three rounds of funding under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, totaling $26.4 billion, that Congress passed for K-12 schools to respond to the pandemic and the recession. Districts and charter schools primarily must use the money to address Covid-related learning and school reopening challenges. The database below shows how much money districts were allocated from:
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https://edsource.org/2021/california-districts-and-charter-schools-get-covid-relief-funding-under-american-rescue-plan-act/650922 |
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Port, Long Beach Unified launch maritime career pathway for high school students |
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To prepare students for careers in the maritime industry, the Port of Long Beach and Long Beach Unified School District recently launched a career pathway at a local high school. The initiative, based at Jordan High School, comes amid a tumultuous time for the maritime industry globally, as supply chain shortages affect ports around the world. In the high school academy, students will gain experience in advanced manufacturing, maritime engineering and construction.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#port-long-beach-unified-launch-maritime-career-pathway-for-high-school-students |
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KPBS
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Help Wanted: San Diego Unified looking for special needs support |
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Jenny Kingston is a dedicated mother who loves her fur babies and the four children she and her husband Bryan raised. Each Kingston kid adopted a dog for emotional support. The pets have been an important part of their education as students with special needs.
Kingston is also a substitute paraeducator with San Diego Unified School District. She taught her own children and got them through COVID-19 distance learning and is now ready to apply for a permanent position to help others.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2021/11/08/help-wanted-san-diego-unified-looking-for-special-needs-support |
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NPR
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California coronavirus updates: Sacramento City school district to hold vaccine clinics for people ages 5 and older |
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Sacramento City Unified School District announced today that all upcoming COVID-19 vaccination clinics hosted by the district will now be able to serve all community members ages 5 and up. SCUSD vaccine clinics are held together with the Del Paso Heights Vaccine Clinic, Sacramento County Public Health, Dignity Health, University of California, Davis, and other health partners.
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https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/11/08/california-coronavirus-updates-november-2021/#scusd-kidsvax |
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