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OCDE NEWSROOM
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California high schools to require personal finance course for graduation under new bill |
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Beginning with the graduating class of 2031, high school students in California will be required to complete one semester of a personal finance course before receiving their diplomas. On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom supported legislation to require personal finance education for high school graduates after the state Senate and Assembly passed Assembly Bill 2927. This would make California the 26th state to require finance-related instruction for graduating high school seniors. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/california-high-schools-will-require-personal-finance-course-for-graduation-under-new-bill/ |
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Weekly roundup: Fullerton students join park restoration effort, TK students exempt from English-language proficiency test, and more |
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Inspired to expand their own cleanup efforts, a teacher and students from Fullerton Union High School have embarked on a mission this summer to preserve and restore Coyote Hills Tree Park, a 3.64-acre community space known for picnicking and leisurely strolls. Guided by Danica Perez, an AP environmental science teacher and advisor to the Environmental Science Club, the high schoolers are embracing the hands-on conservation efforts, focusing on removing invasive plants to restore the park’s native coastal sage scrub ecosystem. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/weekly-roundup-fullerton-students-join-park-restoration-effort-tk-students-exempt-from-english-language-proficiency-test-and- |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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LAUSD is exempt from stormwater regulations. Environmentalists say that needs to change |
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As California looks to improve its ability to capture and store stormwater throughout the state, there is at least one sizable public landowner that is exempt from such efforts: The Los Angeles Unified School District. One of the largest real estate holders in the Greater L.A. area, the school district owns more than 3,200 parcels of land that occupy more than 10 square miles combined — an area almost twice the size of Beverly Hills. Now, environmental groups are urging state water regulators to include the district’s K-12 campuses in updated stormwater regulations, saying that LAUSD could make a considerable contribution to reducing pollution and enhancing water supplies in the region. |
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-30/los-angeles-schools-are-exempt-from-stormwater-regulations |
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EDSOURCE
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San Diego Unified aims to create a parking lot for homeless families, children |
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The San Diego Unified School District and the city are working together to create a parking lot with 50 spaces for homeless community members with children to sleep in their cars, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.
If the city proceeds with the project, the lot would become San Diego’s fifth specifically for the homeless community; and, the school district would lease the lot to the city for free.
The parking lot would sit on the old Central Elementary school — which was recently moved to another shared campus. Meanwhile, that older campus is being developed into hundreds of affordable apartments.
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https://edsource.org/updates/san-diego-unified-aims-to-create-a-parking-lot-for-homeless-families-children |
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Tougher rules for pre-kindergarten rattle districts, cloud program’s future |
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This past school year, 4-year-old Yoshua would’ve been home, watching TV or playing on his tablet if he hadn’t been enrolled in Garden Grove Unified’s transitional kindergarten (TK) program, according to his mom, Briseida, who asked that her last name not be used. “Learning the English language, learning how to start writing his name, learning colors and numbers, knowing that he goes to school with his classmates and can talk and play with them, knowing that his teacher will teach him new things,” Briseida said in Spanish in a district video about the importance of TK, an additional year of public education prior to kindergarten. “All of that has been very positive for us because if he had stayed at home, he would not have learned any of those things.” |
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https://edsource.org/2024/states-last-minute-changes-for-some-tk-students-put-school-districts-in-a-bind/714707 |
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District’s $94 million staffing cuts weren’t enough to avoid $100 million deficit |
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San Diego Unified, the state’s second-largest school district, adopted a $1.1 billion unrestricted budget with a $114 million deficit, despite already making multimillion dollar staffing cuts, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. This spring, the 90,000-student district made $94 million in staffing cuts by laying off five dozen non-teaching staff and eliminating over 550 other positions from central office, classrooms including teachers, special education services and English learner support, the Union-Tribune reported. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/districts-94-million-staffing-cuts-werent-enough-to-avoid-100-million-deficit |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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LBUSD selects new Top of the World Elementary principal, special education program specialist |
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The Laguna Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) has named Thomas Turner as the new principal of Top of the World Elementary School. Turner will replace Meghan Schooler, who has taken a principal position with the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District. Schooler was the principal of Top of the World Elementary for four years. The district has also hired Jennifer Moss as the new program specialist for special education services. Both new hires will formally join the district staff this summer, before the 2024-25 school year. The LBUSD Board of Education approved their appointments at a special meeting held on Friday, June 21. |
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/lbusd-selects-new-top-of-the-world-elementary-principal-special-education-program-specialist/ |
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NPR
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New York City is moving to ban phones from school. Will it work? |
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It may soon be phones down for students in New York City, the largest school district in the nation. David Banks, the chancellor of New York City Public Schools, announced Wednesday that he and Mayor Eric Adams plan to ban the use of phones in the coming weeks, saying phones have gone from a distraction to an addiction for many of the city’s more than 900,000 students. |
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https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-5021605/school-cellphone-bans-new-york-city |
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CALmatters
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Lawmakers reach agreement on $10 billion school bond |
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The Legislature announced today a $10 billion bond to pay for repairs and upgrades at thousands of K-12 school and community college buildings across California, some of which have languished for years with dry rot, mold, leaks and other hazards due to lack of funds. K-12 schools would get $8.5 billion and $1.5 billion would go to community colleges. |
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https://calmatters.org/education/2024/06/school-bond-california/ |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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For many teachers, summer break is no such thing |
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The idea of summer as two months paid leave for America’s teachers is full of holes.
Nearly half planned to take a second job, according to a recent survey, while 76 percent will be doing some kind of professional development — and not all of them are even paid by their districts over the summer months.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4746715-teachers-summer-break-second-jobs/ |
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