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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Fountain Valley district grieving principal who died at Disneyland |
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Counselors fanned out to Fountain Valley School District campuses on Monday, Dec. 5, the first day back for grieving students and employees following the death of Newland Elementary School principal Christopher Christensen, who police believe intentionally jumped to his death from a parking structure at Disneyland on Saturday.
Christensen, 51, previously was the principal at Courreges Elementary School, also in the Fountain Valley district, where he had been an administrator for 22 years. Before then, he had been a music instructor in the Long Beach Unified School District.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2022/12/05/counselors-help-students-cope-with-death-of-principal-of-fountain-valley-district-school/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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New gym, auto shop and classrooms reflect inventive-based approach with youth at Orange County Juvenile Hall |
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“A lot of us get in the habit of being punitive ...” supervising correctional officer Erick Bieger said. “Well, best-practices evidence shows us that doesn’t work.” The new Multipurpose Rehabilitation Center features meeting rooms that can be used to host classes and gatherings. It has a garage equipped with a vehicle lift that will allow staff to teach entry-level auto shop inside Juvenile Hall. |
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https://bit.ly/3hbSe7I |
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EDSOURCE
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California court decision ups the odds for passing school parcel taxes |
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Last month, 52% of the 438 school district voters in the unincorporated low-income Central Valley farm communities of Cutler and Orosi voted in favor of a parcel tax. But as also happened four years earlier, that wasn’t enough. Supporters fell several dozen votes shy of the two-thirds majority they needed to pass a $48 per property tax to fund staff for summer youth sports. |
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https://edsource.org/2022/california-court-decision-ups-the-odds-for-passing-school-parcel-taxes/682086 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Many kids are struggling. Is special education the answer? |
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The COVID-19 pandemic sent Heidi Whitney’s daughter into a tailspin.
Suddenly the San Diego middle schooler was sleeping all day and awake all night. When in-person classes resumed, she was so anxious at times that she begged to come home early, telling the nurse her stomach hurt. Whitney tried to keep her daughter in class. But the teen’s desperate bids to get out of school escalated. Ultimately, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, failed “pretty much everything” at school and was diagnosed with depression and ADHD.
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https://apnews.com/article/special-education-disability-depression-adhd-82c09d1d97b05c63cff195077d0c4fb9 |
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Solving the Black male educator shortage |
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Across the country, Black male educators make up just 2% of teachers. In the Los Angeles Unified school district, just 8.3% of teachers are Black compared to 30.6% White and 46% Latino teachers, according to the district’s data.
Uric Lamb, a Black 11th grader at Fremont High School said Black teachers are always there for him. “They are really determined to see Black kids succeed in life. They are so cool that they would always have tutoring to help kids get their grades up. They will always be on you to do the right thing.”
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https://www.laschoolreport.com/solving-the-black-male-educator-shortage/ |
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