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OCDE NEWSROOM
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COVID-19 update: Orange County outdoor, high-contact school sports cleared to resume |
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The California Department of Public Health Tuesday released updated COVID-19 data, which revealed the adjusted case rate per 100,000 is 11.7 for Orange County. This means that per the state’s revised high school sports guidelines, outdoor, high-contact sports like football are now cleared to resume. As previously mentioned, the CDPH last Friday released new guidelines, now allowing high-contact sports to be played in counties that are in the purple and red tiers of the state’s COVID-19 monitoring system, if counties have a case rate at or below 14 per 100,000 people, and if the schools conduct weekly testing for COVID-19.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/coronavirus-update/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Orange County plans to open multiple vaccination sites for school employees |
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School employees could soon have access to multiple locations for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine shot as Orange County begins to inoculate its education sector.
A vaccination site that, for now, is serving educators 65 years or older is expected to reopen for appointments in the Garden Grove Unified district on Wednesday, Feb. 24, as shipments of doses delayed by the recent winter storms across the country begin to arrive. Next, the Orange County Department of Education is planning to roll out several more vaccination pods (points of dispensing) on school properties throughout the county over the next several weeks, department spokesman Ian Hanigan said. In a collaboration with the OC Health Care Agency, the county education department is targeting districts and areas such as Capistrano Unified, Saddleback Valley Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Anaheim and Orange Unified as potential destinations for the pods to spread them around the county, Hanigan said. They will be open to public and private school employees.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2021/02/23/orange-county-plans-to-open-multiple-vaccination-sites-for-school-employees/ |
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Santa Ana Unified paid $2.2 million in sex abuse case involving fired coach |
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Santa Ana Unified School District quietly paid $2.175 million last October to settle a lawsuit filed by the families of six boys who said they were sexually abused and harassed from 2013 to 2015 by a former Segerstrom High School part-time baseball coach.
The lawsuit, filed in 2017, alleged that their cases were part of a broader pattern at Segerstrom High, claiming the school was negligent in hiring and supervising Carlos Salcito Sales Jr. and other part-time coaches, and that officials failed to report Sales’ crimes to authorities to protect the school’s reputation. [Warning: This story contains graphic content.]
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https://www.ocregister.com/2021/02/23/sex-abuse-case-involving-a-former-assistant-baseball-coach-prompts-santa-ana-unified-to-pay-2-175-million/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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L.A. school reopening contingent on full staff vaccinations, making for uncertain date |
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Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner on Tuesday presented a plan to the school board for reopening campuses that includes the full period needed for employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, delaying the return of elementary students to early April at best. School officials repeatedly targeted April 9 for a campus reopening date, but Beutner described the date as an estimate, saying that the crucial issue is access to vaccines for the 25,000 employees needed for the operation of elementary schools serving 250,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school system.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-24/l-a-school-board-moves-forward-with-reopening-plans-that-assume-staff |
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VOICE OF OC
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Outdoor Youth Sports Expected to Return in OC, State Officials Consider School Reopening Changes |
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Orange County kids are expected to be able to play football, rugby, soccer and other outdoor sports starting this Friday, after not playing in organized fashion for nearly a year since the coronavirus pandemic began. The county’s overall virus situation has been getting better, following the massive case spikes that began in November, which led to the tsunami of patients who flooded hospitals throughout December and early January.
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https://voiceofoc.org/2021/02/outdoor-youth-sports-expected-to-return-in-oc-state-officials-consider-school-reopening-changes/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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EDSOURCE
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Homeless students in L.A. charter schools struggle more than peers at traditional schools, study finds |
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Homeless students attending charter schools in Los Angeles County have significantly lower attendance and graduation rates than their peers at traditional public schools, according to new research from UCLA. Homeless students in Los Angeles County charter schools had a graduation rate of 45% in 2018-19, more than 35 percentage points lower than the rate of homeless students at the county’s traditional public high schools according to “Unseen and Unsupported Students in Charter Schools,” published by the Black Male Institute at the university’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
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https://edsource.org/2021/homeless-students-in-l-a-charter-schools-struggle-more-than-peers-at-traditional-schools-study-finds/649815 |
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BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN
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Kern County's three biggest school districts saw academic performances take hit during distance learning period |
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The school year unlike any other has resulted in report cards unlike any other. Students are coming home with fewer As, Bs and Cs and a lot more Ds and Fs compared to last year. That’s been true across the country and state — in schools where they’re still giving grades — and it’s true in the three school districts where 45 percent of Kern County students go to school.
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https://www.bakersfield.com/news/article_88f63672-7615-11eb-8450-8bebf6e6ae7c.html |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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California governor says deal to reopen schools is close |
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As the vast majority of California students approach one year of distance learning, Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed Tuesday that classrooms will reopen “very, very shortly.” But his forecast was called into question by Los Angeles teachers who continue to insist that the state’s largest school district won’t open without more vaccinations. “The pressure building to return to schools is political. It is not science,” the United Teachers Los Angeles said in a statement. The union said it will vote next week to refuse resuming in-person classes unless certain demands are met, including that all returning staff get access to vaccinations and COVID-19 case numbers in the county continue to decrease. |
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https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-los-angeles-distance-learning-california-coronavirus-pandemic-e07fde4712c16df71838f171f0d3f812 |
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Parents Divided Over Return to LAUSD Campuses |
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She’s never stepped foot in a classroom, let alone a protest, but on Monday 5-year-old Cali was on strike. She skipped her daily two-hour Zoom kindergarten session and instead joined her mom, Renee Bailey, at a protest in Westwood. “I’m not a teacher. I have no idea if what I’m teaching her is on track with the curriculum for kindergartners,” said Bailey, who is currently juggling remote work for her full-time job with a pharmaceutical company with educating her two children.
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https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/education/2021/02/23/parents-divided-over-return-to-lausd-campuses |
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