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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Westminster School District digs up time capsules from students’ past |
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Prized possessions from decades past were rediscovered this year by students in the Westminster School District, where a pair of elementary schools dug up time capsules just before the start of summer. In May and June, classes from DeMille and Willmore elementary schools also had the opportunity to create their own time capsules as they reflected on the relics they found dating back almost 20 years. The event placed a spotlight on the history of the district, which will soon celebrate 150 years since first opening its classroom doors. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/westminster-school-district-digs-up-time-capsules-from-students-past/ |
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EDSOURCE
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National financial aid applications from high schoolers increase |
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As of July 1, national high school financial aid application completions are up 4.6% from last year, representing about 92,000 additional applications according to a report released earlier this month by the National College Attainment Network, or NCAN. The nonprofit research organization found only 11 states had fewer completions of the Federal Application for Free Student Aid, or FAFSA this year. Other states like New Mexico and Mississippi saw gains, including California with a 6.6% increase this year compared with last year. However, Texas and Alabama saw significant increases in application completions after those states started universal FAFSA policies for the first time this academic year. The Texas completion rate increased by nearly 26%, and Alabama by about 25%. |
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#national-financial-aid-applications-from-high-schoolers-increase |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Students Are Learning Well Again. But Full Recovery? That’s a Long Way Off. |
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After the pandemic sent a jolt through the American education system, interrupting the learning of millions of children, a new report offers a glimmer of hope: By the end of the last school year, many students had returned to a normal pace of academic growth for the first time since the pandemic began. Still, the pace was not nearly fast enough to have made up for steep pandemic losses. At this rate, elementary school students may need at least three years to catch up to where they would have been had the pandemic not happened, and middle school students may need five years or more, according to the report released on Tuesday by NWEA. |
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https://worldnewsera.com/news/us-news/students-are-learning-well-again-but-full-recovery-thats-a-long-way-off/ |
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Study: Student gains last year narrowed COVID learning gap |
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Despite a year of disruptions, students largely made academic gains this past year that paralleled their growth pre-pandemic and outpaced the previous school year, according to new research released Tuesday from NWEA, a nonprofit research group that administers standardized tests. Gains across income levels partially closed the gap in learning that resulted from the pandemic, researchers found. But students in high-poverty schools had fallen further behind, making it likely they will need more time than their higher-income peers to make a full recovery. |
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https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-health-education-1d2f79e2c242d2212ff47983050e5330 |
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Nearly 70% of homeless students in Los Angeles Unified chronically absent last year |
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Jennifer Kottke has worked with LAUSD homeless and foster care youth for more than 20 years — but she has never seen chronic absenteeism among these students become the crisis it did during the pandemic. While nearly half of all LAUSD students were chronically absent during most of the 2021-22 school year, the numbers among homeless and foster care youth are staggering: Nearly 70% of homeless LAUSD students, and nearly 60% of students in foster care were chronically absent during the last school year, according to school system data. |
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https://www.laschoolreport.com/nearly-70-of-homeless-students-in-los-angeles-unified-chronically-absent-last-year/ |
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Students fought for green schools; now they’re on the verge of changing LBUSD policy |
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There was a tempered celebration during Monday night’s meeting of the Long Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education, where board members were set to vote on a policy that would wean campuses off fossil fuels. As has been the case for the last two years, a healthy contingent of kids representing the student-led Long Beach Green Schools Campaign was on hand. They hoped to witness the vote, which would’ve set a host of climate goals including “aggressively transitioning to zero-emissions vehicles and machinery” as quickly as the budget allows. |
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https://lbpost.com/news/long-beach-green-schools-campaign-board-vote |
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