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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Serra, Aliso Niguel, Yorba Linda baseball decline spots in CIF SoCal Regional playoffs |
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The Lions, Mustangs and Wolverines will not participate in the regional playoffs that begin May 30. Aliso Niguel will not play in the regional because of scheduling conflicts. Aliso Niguel, which defeated San Marcos 11-1 in the Division 3 final Saturday, has graduation ceremonies and final exams next week. JSerra won its second consecutive Division 1 championship with a 1-0 win over Santa Margarita in eight innings Saturday night. JSerra coach Brett Kay said his players chose not to participate. “The seniors are already out of school,” he said, “and the underclassmen have finals this week. They all said there is no better way to go out.” |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/22/jserra-baseball-declines-invitation-to-play-in-cif-socal-regional-playoffs/ |
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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High school textbooks fall short on teaching Latino history, experience, Johns Hopkins analysis finds |
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U.S. history textbooks for high schoolers are lacking when it comes to covering the Latino experience, a report by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Latino civil rights organization UnidosUS found. Researchers focused on five states with significant Latino student populations — New Mexico, California, Texas, Florida and New York — and two with smaller Latino demographics, Iowa and West Virginia. They identified commonly used textbooks in those areas and settled on five high school U.S. history textbooks and one Advanced Placement U.S. history book. |
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/24/high-school-textbooks-fall-short-on-teaching-latino-history-experience-johns-hopkins-analysis-finds/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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EDSOURCE
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Teachers unions demand housing, transportation and other student supports during negotiations |
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Teachers unions in school districts across the country are demanding improved salaries, benefits and class sizes when it’s time to renew their contracts. They are also leveraging negotiations to benefit school employees, students and their families. This process, known as bargaining in the common good, has been used to gain agreements on a host of items, such as housing assistance for low-income students, updating antiquated school facilities and increasing the number of psychologists, social workers and nurses on campuses. |
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https://edsource.org/2023/teachers-unions-demand-housing-transportation-and-other-student-supports-during-negotiations/691450 |
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KPCC
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The Funding: Gone. The Room: Barren. The Teacher: A Substitute, Who Helped Students Revive A School's Music Program |
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When Jasmyne Pope began substitute teaching music at Dorsey High in fall 2021, she was only planning on staying for a couple of weeks. Then she walked into the school’s music room: it was practically empty, minus an old set of drums and a broken piano. There were no working instruments. It had been over a decade since the school had a functioning music program. |
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https://laist.com/news/education/crenshaw-dorsey-high-school-arts-funding-cut-music-program-revival |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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New Proposed California Budget Offers $4 Billion Less for Education |
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While strong tax revenues in some states are boosting lawmakers’ efforts to increase funding for K-12 schools, policymakers in one of the country’s largest markets are preparing for a more significant hit to the education budget than originally expected.
New, gloomy fiscal projections in California have led Gov. Gavin Newsom to amend his initial state budget proposal, and the revised blueprint reflects a more negative impact to districts than the original draft released earlier this year.
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https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/new-proposed-california-budget-offers-4-billion-less-education/ |
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Carnegie, ETS team up to develop competency-based assessments |
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Two major players in K–12 education launched a joint effort last month to develop new assessments that could help shift schools’ focus away from traditional “seat time” requirements and toward more accurate measures of mastery over academic content.
The new tests, to be created by the Educational Testing Service and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, are meant to usher in competency-based forms of schooling that would allow students to proceed through academic material at their own pace. Leaders of both organizations hope they will also capture a broader array of non-cognitive qualities, like teamwork and relatability, that are highly prized in the modern workforce but undetectable through conventional academic metrics like grade point average or school attendance.
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https://www.laschoolreport.com/carnegie-ets-team-up-to-develop-competency-based-assessments/ |
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OUSD’s annual attendance fell 4% as a result of the teachers strike |
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At the Oakland school board’s first meeting since the teachers strike, school district leaders discussed the ramifications of the seven-day work stoppage, its impact on attendance, and the cost of the agreement, which includes substantial raises for teachers. Only about 4% of Oakland Unified School District’s 34,000 students attended school during the strike between May 4 to May 12, according to data shared by OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell on Wednesday. About 10% attended school on Monday, May 15, when the end of the strike was announced. |
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https://oaklandside.org/2023/05/25/ousds-annual-attendance-fell-4-as-a-result-of-the-teachers-strike/ |
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