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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Tony Bube, founding member of the Inside the Outdoors Foundation, dies at 98 |
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Tony Bube, a founding member of the foundation that supports the Orange County Department of Education’s environmental education program, has died. He was 98.
Bube, a longtime educator and resident of Orange, served actively for more than a decade on what was then known as the Outdoor Science and Environmental Field Study Foundation. Today, it’s known as the Inside the Outdoors Foundation. OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors program was established in 1974 to nurture student knowledge and promote stewardship of the natural environment.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/tony-bube-founding-member-of-the-inside-the-outdoors-foundation-dies-at-98/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Some Santa Ana teachers went to work but didn’t get a paycheck |
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Santa Ana’s newest teachers welcomed students back to school more than a month ago – but more than a hundred of them have yet to be paid. At least 111 new teachers were not compensated on time and told they would have to wait until the end of September for a paycheck, according to Barbara Pearson, president of the Santa Ana Educators’ Association. District officials blamed the paycheck foul-up on delays in processing new employees, partly because the district went through a hiring binge that added many new employees, and partly because human resources itself has fewer workers to process the new employees.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/17/some-santa-ana-teachers-went-to-work-but-didnt-get-a-paycheck/ |
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VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
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Why San Diego Unified Doesn’t Do Year-Round School |
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San Diego Unified used to offer lots of year-round options, but in 2014 the Board of Education voted to bring its 39 year-round schools back onto a traditional academic calendar. Here’s why. All of the schools at Sweetwater Union High School District are year-round and Sweetwater is the second largest district in the county.
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https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/why-san-diego-unified-doesnt-do-year-round-school/ |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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Bay Area schools are facing dire teacher shortages. |
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Three weeks into the school year, the San Lorenzo superintendent stood in a classroom, masked students behind him, and took a selfie. The photo was unremarkable — desks, students, pencils. But the caption reflected the dire situation that many Bay Area school districts find themselves in: There are not enough teachers to staff classrooms and a host of other employees have to fill in.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-schools-are-facing-dire-teacher-16468690.php |
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EDSOURCE
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California schools prepare for thousands of Afghan refugee students |
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School districts throughout California are preparing to offer services ranging from translation to food to mental health support for refugees. In California, home to the largest number of Afghan refugees in the country, school officials are preparing for an influx of refugee students who fled Afghanistan with their families after the Taliban seized power in the country last month. Schools are especially busy in Sacramento and Fremont, two of the largest Afghan communities in the state.
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https://edsource.org/2021/california-schools-prepare-for-thousands-of-aghan-refugee-students/661096 |
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Sacramento City Unified to consider Covid-19 vaccine mandate |
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Sacramento City Unified board members on Thursday were presented with three options regarding Covid-related mandates for students: Continue testing students with symptoms or who have been in close contact with people who tested positive for Covid-19 with no vaccine requirement. Require that students 12 and older either get the vaccination for Covid-19 or be tested regularly for Covid-19. Require that all students 12 and older be vaccinated for Covid-19 with some exemptions allowed. While no vote was expected, four out of the seven board members support the third option, according to the Sacramento Bee.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#sacramento-city-unified-to-consider-covid-19-vaccine-mandate |
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West Contra Costa Unified cancels special board meeting on vaccine mandate |
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West Contra Costa Unified cancelled a special board meeting scheduled for Tuesday in which school board members would decide whether or not to require eligible students to be vaccinated against Covid-19. West Contra Costa Unified was poised to be the first district in Northern California to impose a vaccine mandate for students as well as staff, but now nearby Oakland Unified will likely be the first.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#west-contra-costa-unified-cancels-special-board-meeting-on-vaccine-mandate |
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DAILY BREEZE
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With board vote rekindling issue, LAUSD community continues to debate role of school police |
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Since the start of the school year, when most students returned to in-person learning — many for the first time in a year-and-a-half because of the coronavirus pandemic — officers from the Los Angeles School Police Department say anecdotally they’ve seen an uptick in campus violence. They want the school board to not only restore funding cuts made to their department, but to allow police presence on campuses once more.
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https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/09/18/lausd-community-continues-to-debate-role-of-school-police/ |
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NPR
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Students Are Damaging School Bathrooms For Attention On TikTok |
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Students are destroying or stealing items at their schools, often in the school bathrooms, for what school administrators and police are blaming on a TikTok trend.
Reports have emerged from across the country: a stolen soap dispenser and damaged sink in Florida; intentionally clogged toilets and mirrors and soap dispensers ripped from walls in California; destruction and red dye staining the bathrooms and a teacher's belongings stolen in Arkansas; ceiling tiles and partitions destroyed in Tennessee.
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https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038378816/students-are-damaging-school-bathrooms-for-attention-on-tiktok |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Covid-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds is safe and shows 'robust' antibody response, Pfizer says |
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In a highly anticipated announcement, Pfizer said on Monday a Phase 2/3 trial showed its Covid-19 vaccine was safe and generated a "robust" antibody response in children ages 5 to 11. These are the first such results released for this age group for a US Covid-19 vaccine, and the data has not yet been peer-reviewed or published. Pfizer said it plans to submit to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization soon. FDA officials have said that once data is submitted, the agency could authorize a vaccine for younger children in a matter of weeks.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/health/pfizer-child-vaccine-data/index.html |
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