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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Educators, law enforcement gather in OC for annual Safe Schools Conference |
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Eleven years ago, Kyler Erickson was a high school senior in Nebraska who happened to be visiting the nurse’s office to ice his ankle, which was injured the night before during a varsity basketball game. That’s when it happened. A few feet away, a suspended classmate walked into an adjacent office, pulled out a gun, and fatally shot Assistant Principal Vicki Kaspar. The student then shot the school’s principal three times and fired down a hallway before fleeing the campus and taking his own life in his car. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/educators-law-enforcement-gather-in-oc-for-13th-annual-safe-schools-conference/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Interested in joining the Orange County Board of Education? There’s an open spot |
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The Orange County Board of Education will appoint its fifth member following the resignation of Trustee Beckie Gomez. Registered voters who live in the board’s First District area, which covers Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, portions of Garden Grove, and Tustin, can apply by 4 p.m. Aug. 5 with a resume and a letter asking to be appointed.
The board plans to interview applicants who qualify during an Aug. 17 meeting.
Gomez resigned July 1 after Santa Ana resident Mike Tardif, who is on the board of a charter school that Gomez did not approve, filed a lawsuit against her.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2022/07/13/interested-in-joining-the-orange-county-board-of-education-theres-an-open-spot/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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A nonprofit school and therapy center in Buena Park helps students with special needs reach their potential |
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The mission at the Speech and Language Development Center is to nurture growth for students like Joshua Manso, who now attends Cerritos College. |
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https://lat.ms/3O43ugV |
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EDSOURCE
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Sacramento teachers union alleges district engaged in bad-faith bargaining |
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Sacramento City Unified teachers who went on strike for eight days this spring could get back pay if California’s state labor agency agrees the district engaged in bad-faith bargaining practices, the Sacramento Bee reported. The Sacramento City Teachers Association filed a charge against the district with the California Public Employment Relations Board in May, and PERB took up the complaint on July 6. |
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#sacramento-teachers-union-alleges-district-engaged-in-bad-faith-bargaining |
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GreatSchools won’t be using 2020 or 2021 testing data in its rankings |
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GreatSchools, the Oakland-based website that ranks K-12 public schools nationally, announced that it will not be using testing data from 2020 or 2021. “The cancellation of standardized testing in 2020 and the partial resumption in 2021 has produced two years of nonexistent or, at best, incomplete data,” wrote Orville Jackson, vice president of data strategy at GreatSchools, in a piece for The 74. Student participation in testing varied widely from state to state from 97% in Mississippi to 23% in California, Jackson noted. |
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https://edsource.org/updates/greatschools-wont-be-using-2020-or-2021-testing-data-in-its-rankings |
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NPR
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The U.S. student population is more diverse, but schools are still highly segregated |
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The U.S. student body is more diverse than ever before. Nevertheless, public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. That's according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). More than a third of students (about 18.5 million of them) attended a predominantly same-race/ethnicity school during the 2020-21 school year, the report finds. And 14% of students attended schools where almost all of the student body was of a single race/ethnicity. |
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https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1111060299/school-segregation-report |
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