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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Superintendent Al Mijares and OC Board of Education incumbents win re-elections |
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Orange County Superintendent Al Mijares and the incumbents on the OC Board of Education have all officially earned victories in the June election, according to recently certified results from the Orange County Registrar of Voters.
Mijares was first appointed to oversee the Orange County Department of Education in August 2012 and ran unopposed in 2014 and 2018. Before becoming county superintendent, he worked for six years as the vice president of the College Board and served as superintendent of the Santa Ana Unified School District for more than 11 years. His new term, secured with 55 percent of the vote, will start in January 2023.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/superintendent-al-mijares-and-oc-board-of-education-incumbents-win-re-elections/ |
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KPCC
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What Are ‘Community Schools’? And Why Is California Betting Big That They’ll Remake Public Education? |
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It’s easy to walk around UCLA Community School and lose yourself in the question: why don’t all schools look like this? The school — on a bright, modern campus in Koreatown, part of the L.A. Unified School District — features bilingual programs in Spanish and Korean, mirroring the languages most students speak at home. There’s an on-campus immigration law clinic, which represents students and parents seeking visas, or even asylum. |
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https://laist.com/news/education/what-are-community-schools-and-why-is-california-betting-big-that-theyll-remake-public-education |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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COVID in California: Slow pace nationally for youngest kids getting COVID vaccines |
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Nearly 300,000 children under 5 have received COVID-19 shots in the two weeks since they became available, a slower pace than for older groups. But the White House says that was expected for the eligible U.S. population of about 18 million kids. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was to publish initial data on shots for the age group later Thursday, reflecting doses administered since regulators authorized them on June 18. The first vaccinations didn't begin until several days later because the doses had to be shipped to doctors' offices and pharmacies. |
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https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-07-07/slow-pace-for-youngest-kids-getting-covid-vaccine-doses |
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Harris poll: Education political driver for parents ahead of midterm elections |
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A survey of more than 5,000 parents released today found education ranks high among their concerns ahead of the critical midterm elections — and that 82% would vote for someone outside their party if the candidate’s education agenda matched their own.
The survey was conducted electronically in May by The Harris Poll on behalf of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. It was a follow-up to the Alliance’s own 2021 enrollment study, which noted charter schools’ growth during the pandemic. While traditional public schools lost more than 1.2 million students during the pandemic, charters gained nearly 240,000 children during the 2020-21 school year: Their enrollment grew 7%, the largest increase in half a decade.
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https://laschoolreport.com/harris-poll-education-political-driver-for-parents-ahead-of-midterm-elections/ |
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Is Oakland’s school choice system fair? UC Berkeley researchers take a hard look |
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The public school choice system in Oakland, which enables families to look at the nearly 120 schools across the city and choose the one they think is best for their kids, is meant to even the playing field. Instead of being restricted to the closest school, which may have fewer resources or not fit their child’s needs, families in lower-income neighborhoods can have access to the same public schools as wealthier families.
But new research from UC Berkeley computer scientists examining the Oakland Unified School District system questions whether that’s really happening. And it asks hard questions about how the current approach might be entrenching inequalities instead of fighting them.
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https://oaklandside.org/2022/07/07/oakland-school-choice-berkeley-research-enrollment/ |
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