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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Summer Language Academy welcomes new students to the Anaheim Union High School District |
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For the seventh year, the Anaheim Union High School District collaborated with California State University, Fullerton to host the Summer Language Academy. The four-week program is a culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning program established to meet the needs of the growing numbers of teenage newcomers, a term used to describe English learners who have been in the United States for 12 months or less, speaking different languages. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/summer-language-academy-welcomes-new-students-to-school-and-the-country/ |
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EDSOURCE
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How pandemic relief funds are paying for summer camp |
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California school districts received millions of dollars this year in federal and state Covid relief funding to address the impacts of the pandemic. One district, Lodi Unified, spent a chunk of the funds to send students to a two-week summer camp at a local university. |
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https://edsource.org/podcast/how-covid-relief-funds-are-paying-for-summer-camp |
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DAILY BREEZE
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Rancho Palos Verdes student and her nonprofit win $10,000 as ’emerging visionary’ |
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Naomi Porter wasn’t yet a freshman at Peninsula High School when she formed a nonprofit to educate her peers about how to become entrepreneurs. Since starting “EntrepreYOUership-You can do it too!” in the summer of 2019, the nonprofit has become a powerhouse, hosting events and fundraising competitions and offering curriculum in 42 countries. Porter, now a rising senior, manages a team of more than 200, the average age of whom is 16. And yet, she still finds time for her studies. |
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https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/07/20/rancho-palos-verdes-student-and-her-nonprofit-win-15000-as-emerging-visionary/ |
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FCMAT
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California public school system faces massive teacher shortage |
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After more than a decade of budget cuts and the promotion of charter schools, educators are experiencing sharply declining pay and conditions, leading thousands to quit the profession or move elsewhere for more affordable living conditions. |
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/20/educ-j20.html |
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CALmatters
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Will billions close California’s educational equity gaps? |
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Money talks — but actions speak louder than dollar bills.
That’s the double-edged sword facing California as it pours an unprecedented amount of funding into a public school system grappling with declining enrollment, persistent shortages of educators and substitute teachers, and educational achievement gapsthat only widened during the pandemic. |
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https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/07/educational-equity-california-billions/ |
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