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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

VOICE OF OC

OC Board of Education, County Education Department Host Dueling Ethnic Studies Forums
The Orange County Department of Education plans to host a “colloquium” at 2 p.m. tomorrow, where educational leaders will define Ethnic Studies — a course that has become subject to fiery debate across the country in the past few months. The colloquium is being held less than a week before the County’s Board of Education holds their own forum to provide information on the course and Critical Race Theory on July 27. The dueling forums are the latest in a long string of faceoffs between the board of education and Mijares — faceoffs that sometimes land in court at the expense of the taxpayer.
https://voiceofoc.org/2021/07/oc-board-of-education-county-education-department-host-dueling-ethnic-studies-forums/

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Palo Alto father sues school district after son not allowed in class without mask
The father of a rising senior at Palo Alto High School has sued the school district after his son was denied entry to a summer history class for not wearing a mask.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/19/palo-alto-father-sues-school-district-after-son-not-allowed-in-class-without-mask/

PRESS-ENTERPRISE

Proposed Val Verde School District police budget cut draws protest from police
The Val Verde Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday will consider a resolution to slash its police budget by 30% and apply available funds to increasing its staff of counselors.
https://www.pe.com/2021/07/19/proposed-val-verde-school-district-police-budget-cut-draws-protest-from-riverside-county-law-enforcers/

EDSOURCE

With DACA hopes dashed, California students look to Congress
Immigrant rights advocates in California and nationwide will focus on pushing the Biden administration and Congress to enact immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship, after a judge last week declared DACA unlawful. Thousands of high school and college students in California lost hope of obtaining work permits and deportation protection when a federal judge on Friday stopped the government from receiving new DACA applications.
https://edsource.org/2021/with-daca-hopes-dashed-california-students-look-to-congress/658229

NPR

California Will Launch The Nation's Largest Free Student Lunch Program
When classrooms reopen for the fall term, all of the state's 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family's income.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1018267303/california-free-lunch-public-schools

HuffPost

Leading Pediatrics Group Recommends All Kids Wear Masks In School This Fall
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended Monday that all children over the age of 2 should wear masks in school this fall, regardless of vaccination status, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the nation. The guidelines, which strongly support the return to in-person learning in the coming months, reflect a multi-pronged approach to see students return safely to the classroom more than a year and a half after the pandemic began.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pediatrics-vaccination-status-covid-19-coronavirus_n_60f64d21e4b0158a5ed9116c

CALmatters

How California schools are fighting ransomware attacks
Ransomware attacks are increasing against schools not only in California but across the country, according to several experts. How schools respond and what security measures they have in place are evolving rapidly.
https://calmatters.org/education/2021/07/ransomware-attacks-california-schools-colleges/

OTHER NEWS OUTLETS

When parents disagree over doses for kids: How mothers’ caretaking instinct may be slowing youth COVID vaccination
Fatou and Modou have two healthy children. A 5-year-old boy who likes to build Lego towers. A 7-year-old girl who’s into anime. With each parenting decision the couple has faced over the years — picking a religious Sunday school for their kids, setting bedtime — they have mostly been on the same page. But now, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island family is split over one of the most fundamental questions of the pandemic: whether or not to vaccinate their kids against the coronavirus.
http://laschoolreport.com/when-parents-disagree-over-doses-for-kids-how-mothers-caretaking-instinct-may-be-slowing-youth-covid-


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