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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Students learn about compassion, the world and so much more … Bravo! |
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Some 100 students from Fullerton School District learned about ideal communities during this year’s GATE Talent Academies at Hermosa Drive School. The focus of the academies is cultivating creative connections through fostering creativity, solving problems and developing talent. The students brainstormed what makes up an ideal community, what components, structures and people are important to include, and then they created visual representations of their community. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/27/students-learn-about-compassion-the-world-and-so-much-more-bravo/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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As talks with teachers heat up, LAUSD budget shows a higher ending balance, with caveats |
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For months, the Los Angeles Unified School District had been saying that, despite an ending balance of $4.93 billion for the current school year, the district could be at financial risk in the future. Part of that equation changed Monday, when the district updated that figure to $5.12 billion — while also stating the system’s potential financial risk is unchanged and the available money for employee raises may be tighter than before. |
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-28/lausd-budget-inches-higher-as-teacher-union-talks-heat-up |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Was the LAUSD strike illegal? That’s up to a judge to decide |
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The Los Angeles Unified School District strike may be a concern of the past, but the question of whether the three-day walkout was illegal remains an issue to be resolved in the future. That question will not be answered by the district or labor leaders, but by an administrative law judge who will rule on the unfair labor practice charges that the district filed against its two unions with the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). |
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https://www.dailynews.com/2023/03/27/was-the-lausd-strike-illegal-thats-up-to-a-judge-to-decide/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California districts vary enormously in reading achievement, report finds |
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Some districts with substantial numbers of low-income Latino students vastly outperform others when it comes to reading and writing. The results appear to have more to do with how schools are teaching students to read and less about their family’s income or their English proficiency. That’s according to a new report from the California Reading Coalition, a literacy advocacy group made up of organizations of educators, advocates and researchers. |
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https://edsource.org/2023/california-districts-vary-enormously-in-reading-achievement-report-finds/687517 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Poll of LAUSD parents shows catching up on lost classroom instruction top priority |
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Los Angeles parents demanded higher quality education for their children in the third year of pandemic learning, with an emphasis on recovering social-emotional and academic learning skills. In a poll conducted in the 2021-22 school year by GPSN and the Loyola Marymount University Center for Equity for English Learners, parents expressed the need to close learning gaps caused by the pandemic with access to high quality tutoring and emotional enrichment programs. |
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https://www.laschoolreport.com/poll-of-lausd-parents-shows-catching-up-on-lost-classroom-instruction-top-priority/ |
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Brian Kim Named Agricultural Teacher of the Year Finalist |
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The California FFA, California Farm Bureau, and Nationwide recognized Brian Kim, an agricultural teacher at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, as a finalist for the 2022-2023 Agricultural Educator of the Year honor through Nationwide’s Golden Owl Award on February 24. As a finalist, Kim will receive a $500 cash prize and be recognized on stage at the 95th Annual State FFA Leadership Conference in Ontario later this week. |
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https://fullertonobserver.com/2023/03/26/brian-kim-named-agricultural-teacher-of-the-year-finalist/ |
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Local girls get 'fired up' about firefighting careers |
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Girls from across Southern California took part in the Fired Up! Girls Empowerment Camp held at the El Segundo fire station, where Deena Lee is the first female fire chief in the South Bay region. The two-day camp was aimed at educating girls between the ages of 12 and 19 about the firefighting profession as a viable career option, and provided hands-on training with female firefighters from fire stations around the region. Women make up less than 5% of firefighters in the United States and about 3.5% in Los Angeles County. |
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https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/education/2023/03/27/local-girls-get-fired-up-about-firefighting-careers |
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LBUSD and TALB at impasse in contract negotiations, will enter state mediation |
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Last Friday’s last-ditch bargaining session between the Long Beach Unified School District and the Teachers Association of Long Beach didn’t see the two sides come to an agreement on compensation or the district’s proposal to add four pupil-free days to the school year. That means that the city’s largest employer and its largest union are at a formal impasse and will proceed to state mediation, overseen by California’s Public Employee Relations Board. |
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https://lbpost.com/news/lbusd-and-talb-at-impasse-in-contract-negotiations-will-enter-state-mediation |
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SFUSD cuts a blow to underserved schools in Mission, Excelsior |
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As San Francisco public school principals turned in their 2023-24 budget proposals to Superintendent Matt Wayne this past Friday, many scrambled to find solutions to cuts at schools that have seen slight enrollment reductions over the last few years.
So far, John O’Connell, June Jordan and Cleveland are three of the schools in for cuts of around $200,000 each. These are smaller schools that provide a specialized, intimate classroom for their majority socioeconomically disadvantaged student body. A large margin of enrolled students are Latinx and Black.
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https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/sfusd-cuts-schools-mission-excelsior/ |
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