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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Man who jumped to death at Disneyland was Huntington Beach school principal |
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A man who jumped to his death from a parking structure at Disneyland on Saturday night was the principal of a Huntington Beach elementary school and a musician who taught and played throughout Southern California. Christopher Christensen, 51, of Westminster, also faced misdemeanor child endangerment and battery charges after he was arrested last month. He was due in court on Monday, Dec. 5. On Saturday around 9 p.m., Christensen was found dead after someone reported a man fell from the Mickey & Friends parking structure, according to Anaheim police and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Christensen was the principal at Newland Elementary School. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2022/12/04/man-jumps-to-death-from-disneyland-parking-structure/ |
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JSerra High takes a snow day |
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The temperature was in the mid-60s Friday in San Juan Capistrano, but students still played in the snow. About 60 tons of icy stuff was trucked onto the campus of JSerra Catholic High School and converted into a sledding hill and snow play area. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2022/12/02/jserra-high-takes-a-snow-day/ |
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VOICE OF OC
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Westminster Unveils New Public Park Honoring Latino Pioneers Who First Challenged Racism in America’s Schools |
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Long before the historic Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) school desegregation case, there was Mendez vs. Westminster (1947). Eight years before Brown hit the courts, Latino families in Orange County successfully challenged school segregation in federal court. This month, Westminster is unveiling a new public park dedicated to this integral case borne of Latino activism, and its role in ending segregation in public schools in Orange County and across America. |
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https://voiceofoc.org/2022/12/westminster-unveils-new-public-park-honoring-latino-pioneers-who-first-challenged-racism-in-americas-schools/ |
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WASHINGTON POST
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These teens won the right to vote. Their county disenfranchised them. |
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If all had gone as planned, thousands of high-schoolers in Oakland would have cast their ballots for the first time on Election Day. Many of them had worked since their freshman year to lower the voting age to 16 for school board races, arguing that no one had a higher stake in who led their district. |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/11/30/oakland-teens-voter-suppression/ |
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EDSOURCE
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What Prop. 28 funding will mean for arts education in California |
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On Nov. 8, Californians overwhelmingly passed Proposition 28, which will bring a windfall of arts education funding to California schools. Advocates say the investment is long overdue, as arts education has declined in most districts — particularly those in low-income areas — for decades. While the state requires arts education in grades one to six and a year of arts education in high school, it’s up to districts to decide how to fund and implement it. The result has been an inconsistent patchwork of arts programs that leave many children with little exposure to music, dance, art and other creative forms of expression. |
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https://edsource.org/2022/what-prop-28-funding-will-mean-for-arts-education-in-california/682054 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Paso Robles residents move to replace ‘extremist candidate’ appointed to school board |
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Some Paso Robles residents want to replace a local school board member known for his far-right political views. Critics of Kenney Enney filed a petition with roughly 800 signatures on Nov. 10 with the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education and the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder’s Office to hold a special election for Enney’s seat on the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District. Enney was appointed to the school board on Oct. 11 to replace Chris Bausch, who took a seat on the Paso Robles City Council. |
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https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/education/article269480202.html#storylink=cpy |
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