OCDE NEWSROOM
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Brea siblings turn virtual language lessons into a charitable business |
What started as a weekly game of “Go Fish” with grandma has turned into a charitable business for a brother-sister duo from Brea. Aria and Aarav Pal, siblings from Olinda Elementary in the Brea Olinda Unified School District, recently started a business to teach children their native language of Hindi. Originally intended to provide them with some extra spending money, the young entrepreneurs have donated over $1,000 to a charity called RISE — short for Rural India School Enterprise — which is focused on educating kids in rural India who have no access to schooling.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/brea-siblings-turn-virtual-language-lessons-into-a-charitable-business/ |
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COVID-19 update: State releases early guidance for graduations, sports FAQs and outbreak data |
California health officials announced this week that the organizers of upcoming graduation ceremonies can begin making plans based on the state’s “Outdoor Live Events with Assigned Seats and Controlled Mixing” guidelines, which take effect on April 1. The relevant section can be found on page 5 of this Blueprint for a Safer Economy document that breaks down what activities are allowed in each tier of California’s color-coded monitoring system. (OC is in the red tier, though that could change.) The California Department of Public Health says more detailed guidance is forthcoming.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/coronavirus-update/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Esperanza High recovers $1.5 million after embezzlement by finance clerk |
Esperanza High School in Anaheim has recovered more than $1.5 million stolen by a former finance clerk, district officials said, and the campus plans to put that money into programs, buildings and ticket reductions. Last year Cynthia Marie Campbell, 65, of Midway City was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for embezzling more than $700,000, a figured determined by an audit, from the school’s Associated Student Body. Authorities said she’d been taking money for years, including making out checks apparently to her husband and dead mother. |
https://www.ocregister.com/2021/03/17/esperanza-high-recovers-1-5-million-after-embezzlement-by-finance-clerk/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Final approval expected for divisive California ethnic studies curriculum model |
California’s Board of Education is expected Thursday to pass the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for high schools, after nearly four years of heated debate, division and rewrites.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article250004574.html |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH
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EDSOURCE
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Schools chief uses influence to shape policy during pandemic, but lacks power to make big decisions. |
Tony Thurmond, California’s state superintendent of public instruction, didn’t expect the school closures across the state last year to last more than a few weeks. County school superintendents that he spoke with about the pandemic response weren’t too concerned either. It would be an extended spring break, Thurmond thought. “I don’t think any of us understood the significance of what this really was, what we were facing,” Thurmond said.
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https://edsource.org/2021/state-schools-chief-lacks-power-to-make-big-decisions-uses-influence-to-shape-policy-during-pandemic/651480 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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US schools prepare summer of learning to help kids catch up |
After a dreary year spent largely at home in front of the computer, many U.S. children could be looking at summer school — and that’s just what many parents want.
Although the last place most kids want to spend summer is in a classroom, experts say that after a year of interrupted study, it’s crucial to do at least some sort of learning over the break, even if it’s not in school and is incorporated into traditional camp offerings.
Several governors, including in California, Kansas and Virginia, are pushing for more summer learning. And some states are considering extending their 2021-22 academic year or starting the fall semester early.
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https://apnews.com/article/connecticut-california-coronavirus-pandemic-6482e19ff50609352a38f022143b935d |
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