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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Ocean View School District board again votes to censure trustee |
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Norm Westwell used to be known by the nickname of “Firecracker.”
Discontent about Westwell’s actions on the Ocean View School District Board of Trustees exploded again during a meeting on May 10. Westwell was censured for the third time by his colleagues on the board, by a 4-1 vote. His was the only dissenting vote. The allegations against Westwell, serving in his fourth term on the board, included two times — on Feb. 8 and March 22 — when he reported during open session activities and discussions from closed session.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2022-05-16/ocean-view-school-district-board-again-votes-to-censure-trustee |
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L.A. coronavirus hospitalizations start rising again |
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Los Angeles County’s coronavirus-positive hospitalizations are rising again, causing health officials to urge residents to put masks back on if they have stopped doing so. Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer urged residents Monday to wear masks inside schools, stores and workplaces. Ferrer has strongly recommended indoor mask use ever since the L.A. County Department of Public Health ended its 7½-month universal mask order on March 4. But Ferrer’s message seemed to take a more urgent tone Monday, with coronavirus-positive hospitalizations rising 29% in the last week, to 312 as of Sunday.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-16/la-coronavirus-hospitalizations-start-rising-again |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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COVID in California: S.F. schools report highest number of COVID cases since winter omicron surge |
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The rising tide of new coronavirus cases in California and the Bay Area may offer a glimpse of what “living with COVID” really means. For almost the entire pandemic, San Francisco’s COVID-19 case rates have been lower than the nation’s as a whole. But no longer. |
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/COVID-California-17177254.php |
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EDSOURCE
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In the San Joaquin Valley, rapidly growing school districts endure overcrowding |
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When it was time to put down roots and buy a home for their family, Bay Area residents Mandeep Kaur and Jimmy Singh decided it was time to leave their cramped apartment in Fremont and purchase a home in the San Joaquin Valley.
They landed in Patterson, a small but rapidly growing town of 24,000 off the Interstate 5 freeway. The development they moved into in February is so new that not all the homes on their street have been finished.
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https://edsource.org/2022/in-the-san-joaquin-valley-rapidly-growing-school-districts-endure-overcrowding/672175 |
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Covid stipends cause outcry at Alameda County Office of Education |
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The superintendent of Alameda County apologized last week after her office spent about $600,000 in Covid relief funds on stipends for her staff, mostly managers who took on extra duties during the pandemic. Giving the money to staff was allowed under the federal and state grants, but has riled union leaders who say managers – and not union members – got the bulk of the funds, and the process wasn’t transparent or legal under the education code. |
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https://edsource.org/2022/covid-stipends-cause-outcry-at-alameda-county-office-of-education/672413 |
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Most California teacher preparation programs flunk math instruction |
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Most California teacher preparation programs are failing to adequately train future teachers to teach elementary school level mathematics, according to a National Council on Teacher Quality report released today. The organization reviewed 1,100 teacher preparation programs nationwide to determine how much time each spent on math instruction and the content of that instruction. The findings were reported in “Teacher Prep Review: Preparation for Teaching Elementary Mathematics.” |
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#most-california-teacher-preparation-programs-flunk-math-instruction |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Can college courses for high school students lure families back to LAUSD? |
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Los Angeles Unified high school senior Hailey Galvan had never considered attending one of the country’s most elite colleges — until she took a special college course offered at her school. It was in the National Equity Lab class at Santee high school in Southeast L.A. that Wesleyan University professors taught Hailey and her classmates the works of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche in a course called “The Modern and The Postmodern.” |
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https://laschoolreport.com/can-college-courses-for-high-school-students-lure-families-back-to-lausd/ |
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