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Northern California’s largest school district is reopening campuses. How they did it |
Just over one year after the Elk Grove Unified School District closed campuses – sending shock waves through the region as the COVID-19 pandemic began – students in Northern California’s largest district will begin returning to classrooms on Tuesday.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article249848643.html |
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EDSOURCE
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'No one is sure what to expect': Schools, colleges add more counseling services to address student mental health |
As students begin returning to the classroom as the pandemic eases, schools are bracing for an onslaught of serious mental health conditions that, for some students, may take years to overcome. In the year that campuses were closed due to Covid-19, students experienced waves of loneliness, fear, upheaval and grief. Some lost loved ones, others saw their parents lose their jobs and their families sink into poverty. Nearly all experienced a degree of depression from being apart from their friends and missing important milestones like proms, graduations and being on campus as college freshmen.
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https://edsource.org/2021/schools-add-more-counseling-services-but-students-mental-health-impacts-may-linger-for-years/651272 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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California ethnic studies debate: Whose stories get told? |
Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools statewide.
The process took over two years, multiple versions, and drew nearly 100,000 public comments.
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https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-education-california-d4e28bba7b0c54fcd446ec456fa38e14 |
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FAFSA applications fell after COVID — and for many incoming freshmen, they haven’t recovered |
New research from California shows a sizable decline in applications for university financial aid during the first phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. The trend among first-year college students has not reversed itself, the data show, and declines are particularly acute in low-income neighborhoods and those with higher minority populations.
Financial aid applications are a useful proxy for college attendance, which makes it reasonable to wonder whether fewer completed FAFSA forms today will lead to less college attendance tomorrow.
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http://laschoolreport.com/fafsa-applications-fell-after-covid-and-for-many-incoming-freshmen-they-havent-recovered/ |
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Judge Rules in Favor of North County Parents Suing Over School Reopening Rules |
A judge Monday ruled in favor of a group of North County parents who sued the state to overturn pandemic-related rules they allege have unfairly prevented school districts from reopening for in-person learning. The temporary restraining order issued by San Diego Superior Court Judge Cynthia Freeland prohibits the state from enforcing the provisions of its January framework for reopening schools, which the plaintiffs allege has interfered with local school districts’ reopening plans and includes “arbitrary” restrictions that have impeded in-person instruction from resuming.
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https://timesofsandiego.com/education/2021/03/15/judge-rules-in-favor-of-north-county-parents-suing-over-school-reopening-rules/ |
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Pushback from United Teachers of Pasadena leaves district reopening date in limbo |
One week after the Pasadena Unified Board of Education decided on a reopening date to get its youngest students back in the classroom, the local teachers union is calling on officials to shift their original March 30 plan to a proposed start on April 13.
Even though a date is set, the union and the district still do not have a firm agreement for the return to in-person learning. This protest and ensuing negotiations could lead to a change in the proposed schedule, district officials said.
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https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2021/03/15/pushback-from-united-teachers-of-pasadena-leaves-district-reopening-date-in-limbo/ |
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