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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OCDE unveils resources to help educators teach about airborne illnesses, vaccines |
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OCDE has partnered with the Orange County Health Care Agency to produce a series of mini-lessons, activities and informational handouts on COVID-19 and the new vaccines intended to curb the pandemic. The materials, which are divided by grade span, were developed by members of OCDE’s Educational Services team to equip educators with timely and accurate information to help students understand how airborne diseases and illnesses spread. Also featured are tips on keeping physically and mentally healthy and strategies for analyzing health information.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocde-unveils-resources-to-help-educators-teach-about-airborne-illnesses-vaccines/ |
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COVID-19 update: Othena system, used by OC to register for vaccinations, now available in Spanish |
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The online system for Orange County residents and workers to register for their COVID-19 vaccinations — and schedule appointments when they’re eligible — is now available in Spanish. Those who visit the Othena.com website can click on “English” at the top of the page and select “Español” to receive instructions in Spanish. Officials say a Vietnamese language version is coming soon, and additional updates to the Othena app are in the works. While shortages have been reported across the country, more than 570,000 Orange County residents and workers have been registered through Othena since Jan. 1, and more than 131,000 individuals have been vaccinated, county officials said. Nearly 144,000 appointments have been scheduled.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/coronavirus-update/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Huntington Beach schools return on-campus for hybrid learning |
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As coronavirus case rates continue to drop in Orange County, students in Huntington Beach have made their way back to campuses for the first time in weeks. Huntington Beach Union High School District marked the start of the second semester Tuesday with a return to a hybrid learning model. Students had been distance learning exclusively for about a month, since Jan. 4. Huntington Beach City School District and Ocean View School District also returned to their hybrid models on Monday.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2021-02-03/huntington-beach-schools-return-on-campus-for-hybrid-learning |
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Teachers face pressure to return even before COVID-19 vaccinations completed |
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The battle over reopening California schools intensified Wednesday when Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Biden administration said campuses can safely reopen without teachers being vaccinated — and unions pushed back, calling for school workers to be immunized as part of any sweeping reopening effort to return students to classrooms.
Echoing the debate, the Southern California chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics called for schools to open immediately, asserting that the harms of keeping children out of school outweigh the risks of reopening. Meanwhile, United Teachers Los Angeles accused officials of playing politics with the lives of its members, students and their families.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-04/california-debates-teacher-vaccines-reopening-schools |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Newsom on return of youth and high school sports: ‘We want to see this happen" |
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If a high school football season doesn’t happen in this spring, or any number of other sports, really, it won’t be for a lack of effort. The hurdles thus far have been too steep to clear, the colored tiers not nearly favorable enough to allow competition, showing too much angry purple. Teenagers from San Diego County at the southern border of California to Siskiyou County at the northern border and all points between have been ready since March.
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https://www.sacbee.com/sports/high-school/article248984965.html#storylink=mainstage_card7 |
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Sacramento City Unified considers more budget cuts. See what could be slashed |
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The Sacramento City Unified School District is considering a new wave of budget cuts at its Thursday night board meeting, after spending past meetings listening to students and community members asking them to reconsider deep slashes.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article248948589.html |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Schools can safely move to reopen even if teachers are not all vaccinated, Newsom says |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said he believes schools can begin to reopen even if all teachers are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19, provided that proper safety measures and supports are in place — although some teachers unions, including United Teachers Los Angeles, have said vaccinations should be a prerequisite to resuming in-person instruction. “We can safely reopen schools as we process a prioritization to our teachers of vaccinations,” Newsom said Wednesday.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2021-02-03/schools-can-reopen-before-all-teachers-get-covid-vaccine |
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WASHINGTON POST
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Report: California ‘wasting’ millions of dollars funding online charter schools |
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A new report on California’s online charter schools says that the state is “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year by funding these schools at a level far above their costs.” The report, published Tuesday by a Washington -D.C.-based nonprofit research and policy organization called In the Public Interest, also says that the “track record of online charter schools has been uniformly negative for every demographic subgroup of students” despite the promise of online education.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/02/02/report-california-wasting-millions-online-charters/ |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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EDSOURCE
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Credential testing required for California teachers would be reduced under new proposal |
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California teacher candidates may be able to use coursework they have taken to satisfy their degree requirements to prove they are ready to teach, instead of taking some state tests currently required to obtain a teaching credential, according to a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom. If legislators approve the proposal, teacher candidates will no longer have to take the California Basic Educational Skills Test, or CBEST, or the California Subject Examinations for Teachers, otherwise known as the CSET. Those two tests are among several that teacher candidates are required to pass before they earn a credential, and many potential teachers have failed.
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https://edsource.org/2021/testing-required-for-california-teachers-would-be-be-reduced-under-new-proposal/648081 |
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Joining national debate, San Francisco enters uncharted territory in battle over reopening schools |
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By deciding to sue its own school board and district, San Francisco has opened up a new front on the battleground to open schools for in-person instruction. The city filed suit in the San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday for what City Attorney Dennis Herrera alleges are violations of a state law requiring districts to adopt a clear plan during the pandemic “to offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible,” as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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https://edsource.org/2021/joining-national-debate-san-francisco-enters-uncharted-territory-in-battle-over-reopening-schools/648060 |
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