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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Garden Grove Unified spotlights students and staff during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month |
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The Garden Grove Unified School District is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by recognizing its own staff members and students on social media, giving the school community an opportunity to learn about what this month means to their peers and neighbors. The annual celebration held in May recognizes the historical and cultural contributions of individuals and groups of Asian and Pacific Islander descent to the United States. The district has spotlighted students in varying grade levels, along with a community liaison, a teacher, an assistant principal and a director. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/garden-grove-unified-spotlights-students-and-staff-during-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Five Southern California students battle in National Spelling Bee |
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Five Southern California students are trying to spell their way to the national spelling bee crown this week. Aaron Lim is an eighth grader at El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim. He won the Orange County Spelling Bee in March. In the third round of the preliminaries, Lim correctly spelled “muckraker,” which means “to search out and publicly expose real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business,” earning him a spot in the quarterfinals. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2023/05/30/five-southern-california-students-battle-in-national-spelling-bee/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Transgender teacher’s Pride flag burned at Saticoy Elementary, where protests escalate |
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A North Hollywood elementary school already dealing with parental protests over an upcoming Pride assembly was further aggrieved after a transgender teacher’s Pride flag was burned by a campus intruder, police and sources said. The angst at Saticoy Elementary School has ratcheted up since parents created an Instagram account on May 16 protesting the school’s Pride month assembly, during which administrators planned to talk about families with gay parents. Some parents planned to keep their children home, and others posted furiously about teaching “sexuality” in schools. |
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-31/saticoy-elementary-school-pride-flagged-burned |
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CAPISTRANO DISPATCH
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CUSD Announces Leading Candidate for New Superintendent |
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The Capistrano Unified School District has announced the leading candidate to fill the role of superintendent. CUSD trustees are considering Dr. Christopher Brown, who is currently the assistant superintendent for Research, Assessment, and School Improvement at the Long Beach Unified School District, according to a news release.
The Board of Trustees voted, 4-3, to terminate the contract of previous Superintendent Kirsten Vital Brulte for undisclosed reasons during a special meeting last December. Clark Hampton has been serving as interim superintendent since then.
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https://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/cusd-announces-leading-candidate-for-new-superintendent/ |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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Rally set for embattled Temecula Valley High drama teacher |
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Temecula Valley High School drama students are preparing to rally in support of their teacher, who was accused by a parent and a pastor of assigning a sexually explicit and inappropriate play. Temecula mother Tracy Nolasco told the school board May 16 that her sophomore daughter was told she had to read “Angels in America,” or else she would “fail.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the AIDS epidemic along with religion, race, drug use and homosexuality. Murrieta pastor Tim Thompson echoed her concerns, asked for the teacher to be fired and said the district needed a new policy to prevent such occurrences. |
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https://www.dailybulletin.com/2023/05/31/rally-set-for-embattled-temecula-valley-high-drama-teacher/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Teachers who claim gender equality may show bias against girls, study suggests |
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Math teachers who believe women no longer face discrimination tend to be biased against girls’ ability in math, according to an experiment conducted with over 400 math teachers across the United States, as The 74 reported. The findings were published in a peer-reviewed article that appeared in April 2023 in the International Journal of STEM Education. In this experiment, teachers were asked to evaluate a set of student solutions to math problems. The teachers didn’t know that gender and race specific names, such as Tanisha and Connor, had been randomly assigned to the solutions. The idea was to see if the teachers had any unconscious biases, as The 74 reported. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/teachers-who-claim-gender-equality-may-show-bias-against-girls-study-suggests |
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KPBS
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Carlsbad High School students stage walkout, claiming lack of support for the LGBTQ community |
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Students at Carlsbad High School walked out of class Tuesday morning to protest recent actions by their vice principal and the Carlsbad Unified School District.
Earlier this month, vice principal Ethan Williams spoke at Mission Church in Carlsbad and urged the audience to attend meetings about the district’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging plan. "We want no sexual identity or gender ideology curriculum, groups, or celebrations on public school campuses,” Williams told the audience in a recording obtained by KPBS.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/05/30/carlsbad-high-school-students-stage-walkout-claiming-lack-of-support-for-the-lgbtq-community |
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