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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Organization names County Superintendent Dr. Al Mijares a champion for empowering students |
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Positively impacting the Orange County community and the thousands of students served by nonprofit organization Junior Achievement of Orange County are just a couple reasons why County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Al Mijares is being honored as a Spirit of JA. Based in Costa Mesa, JA Achievement of Orange County helps prepare local students in grades K-12 to succeed in the real world by delivering educational programs that address topics related to work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/organization-names-county-superintendent-dr-al-mijares-a-champion-for-empowering-students/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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FRESNO BEE
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This Fresno school opened safe space for students 12 years ago. Now the idea is spreading |
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One of the first things you notice when entering Yosemite Middle School’s Bear Cave, the campus’ social-emotional hub, are the many pairs of rainbow-colored hand-prints covering the walls. Yesenia Lopez, a social-emotional paraprofessional who staffs the room, said it’s a tradition among students who use the space to leave their mark, literally, so future students can see how many of their peers came here before them. But those handprints only begin to capture the mark that the Bear Cave, which takes its name from the school’s mascot, has also left on Yosemite’s students. |
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https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article261887610.html#storylink=cpy |
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EDSOURCE
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New program will put AmeriCorps public health volunteers in schools |
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California’s unprecedented investment in students’ health and wellbeing got a little boost from the federal government this week, as AmeriCorps announced it would dispatch dozens of public health volunteers into schools and communities.
Five organizations in California, including several that work in schools, are part of the first wave of a new AmeriCorps grant program intended to boost public health among children and families, especially those who have been hard hit by the pandemic.
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https://edsource.org/2022/new-program-will-put-americorps-public-health-volunteers-in-schools/674741 |
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High praise for state’s Cradle-to-Career Data System in new case study |
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The state’s Cradle-to-Career Data System hasn’t flipped a switch yet, but a national nonprofit that advocates for state education data systems and has been a past critic of California’s laggard efforts is now lavishing praise on California in a just-released case study. “Today, California stands at the precipice of education data excellence,” proclaims the Washington, D.C.-based Data Quality Campaign in a report subtitled “How California’s P–20W Cradle-to-Career Data System Could Take the State from Last to First.” |
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#high-praise-for-state-8217-s-cradle-to-career-data-system-in-new-case-study |
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Universal preschool bill advances in the Assembly |
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Universal preschool might become available to all California 3- and 4-year-olds if a new bill eventually gets signed into law. Introduced by state Sen. Connie M. Leyva,D-Chino, Senate Bill 976 would remove requirements that students be low-income to enroll in free state preschool and allow community child care providers such as in-home day cares to tap into state funds. The bill passed out of the Assembly Human Services Committee Tuesday. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/universal-preschool-bill-advances-in-the-assembly |
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Child care providers reach agreement with state over healthcare access |
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Child Care Providers United (CCPU), the union which represents 40,000 child care providers in California, has reached an agreement with Governor Newsom to provide funding for urgent health care needs and as well as develop a strategy for retirement planning as part of the new state budget. Many child care providers, a workforce dominated by women of color who often survive on poverty wages, are cheering this as a historic move. The state will set aside $100 million in a trust to meet ongoing health needs. |
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#child-care-providers-reach-agreement-with-state-over-healthcare-access |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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California late start law aims to make school less of a yawn |
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Beginning this fall high schools in the nation’s most populous state can’t start before 8:30 a.m. and middle schools can’t start before 8 a.m. under a 2019 first-in-the-nation law forbidding earlier start times. Similar proposals are before lawmakers in New Jersey and Massachusetts. Advocates say teens do better on school work when they’re more alert, and predict even broader effects: a reduction in suicides and teen car accidents and improved physical and mental health. |
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https://apnews.com/article/science-health-education-california-5197d3c602b0497d60c15d0bae20ad94 |
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