OCDE Education in the News

Thursday, July 7, 2022

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

OC Board of Ed challenges Newsom over COVID-19 emergency act again

A freshly-emboldened Orange County Board of Education once again took aim at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ongoing COVID-19 powers, filing new legal action Wednesday to end the statewide state of emergency. Board members, along with a national organization that opposes vaccine mandates, filed an amended motion to a November lawsuit in an attempt to require Newsom to terminate the statewide state of emergency he enacted in March 2020. The new legal action was made same day as Board Trustees Mari Barke, Tim Shaw and Lisa Sparks are sworn in following their re-election wins.

https://ocregister.com/2022/07/06/oc-board-of-ed-challenges-newsom-over-covid-19-emergency-act-again/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

S.F. school district used $525,000 aimed at facility improvements to pay for legal fight over controversial mural

San Francisco school officials used money voters approved for classroom and other facilities’ improvements to pay $525,000 in attorney fees to fight a lawsuit over the fate of a controversial Depression-era mural.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-school-used-525-000-aimed-at-facility-17288708.php

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

Judge: Los Angeles Unified can’t make kids get COVID shots — how will this affect the Bay Area?

For the second time, a California judge has ruled that the state — not individual school districts — has the authority to require students get the COVID-19 vaccine to attend classes on campus, putting in doubt similar mandates in the Bay Area that have been delayed.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/06/judge-los-angeles-unified-cant-make-kids-get-covid-shots/

EDSOURCE

College or career? California invests $500 million in program that tackles both

School districts and charter schools can apply for grants, but so will regional occupational centers or a community college working in concert with local K-12 schools.

https://edsource.org/2022/college-or-career-california-invests-500-million-in-program-that-tackles-both/675090

NPR

African American school administrators in Sacramento say racism against Black leaders is an ongoing issue

Though Darryl White hasn’t been a school principal for years, he still remembers a particular incident that happened during his second year at Luther Burbank High in the Sacramento City Unified School District. “Those things you don’t forget,” White said. White, who’s Black, remembered that when he surfaced an issue regarding a white female teacher, the entire English department, which was also white, turned against him. “The next day I had the whole English department walk into my office to explain to me that she was one of the best English teachers in the district and that I need to look closer at the students,” he said.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/07/06/african-american-school-administrators-in-sacramento-say-racism-against-black-leaders-is-an-ongoing-issue

OTHER NEWS OUTLETS

Ex-teacher’s mission: Making sure ed tech really works in the classroom

Katie Boody Adorno taught middle school math for five years, both in the Kansas City Public Schools and as a founding teacher at Alta Vista Charter Middle School. It was there she realized that ed tech solutions weren’t all she had dreamed of and weren’t always ideal for her students. She wanted more say in finding — or creating — in-school tools, and she wanted students and families to be part of the process. So in 2013, she started Leanlab Education.

https://laschoolreport.com/ex-teachers-mission-making-sure-ed-tech-really-works-in-the-classroom/

In survey, public schools blame pandemic for rise in behavioral problems

Nearly 90% of U.S. public schools say the COVID-19 pandemic has hurt the socio-emotional development of their students, according to federal data released Wednesday. In a May survey of 846 public schools conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the Education Department, 87% of schools said the pandemic negatively impacted socio-emotional development during the past academic year, and 83% agreed that students’ behavioral development also has been stunted.

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/education/2022/07/06/more-than-80--of-public-schools-blame-pandemic-for-rise-in-behavior-problems

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