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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Yorba Linda school officials check into racist poster allegedly aimed at Esperanza High |
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A racist poster made by one or more students at Yorba Linda High—allegedly aimed against Latino students at Esperanza High before a football game Friday – is being investigated by the school district. Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School district officials called the poster “inappropriate” and said school officials are investigating the incident. They noted the poster was not shared publicly on campus and it was created “without the knowledge or authorization” of the school’s staff.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2021/09/29/yorba-linda-school-officials-check-into-racist-poster-allegedly-aimed-at-esperanza/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Will Biden's reconciliation bill transform early childhood education? |
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Even as the pandemic continues to upend the way children live, President Joe Biden has been pushing to invest in early childhood education and bolster the long-beleaguered child care sector. Under pressure for some time, many child care providers have been on the brink of closure due to escalating costs while many families cannot afford the care they need to be able to work outside the home. And child care workers often subsist on poverty wages.
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https://edsource.org/2021/will-bidens-reconciliation-bill-transform-early-childhood-education/661668 |
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California still lags in computer science classes at high schools |
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Despite recent gains, California still lags behind 34 other states in the percentage of high schools that offer computer science classes, according to a new report released this week. “The California Computer Science Access Report,” by the Kapor Center and Computer Science for California, examined the computer science landscape in the state’s public high schools. It found that 42% of California high schools offer computer science classes, a 3 percentage point gain from 2016. Only 13% offered an advanced placement computer science class.
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https://edsource.org/news-updates#california-still-lags-in-computer-science-classes-at-high-schools |
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KPBS
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San Diego Unified Moves To Implement New Vaccine Mandate |
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The San Diego Unified School District is moving quickly to implement its new COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Tuesday night, the district’s school board voted unanimously to require vaccinations for all age-eligible students and staff members. For now, the mandate applies to high school students 16 years of age and older. The board limited the mandate to that group because the Pfizer vaccine has been fully approved by the FDA for their use.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/education/2021/09/29/sd-unified-moves-to-implement-new-vaccine-mandate |
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NPR
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Can California School Districts Independently Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines For Students? |
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Questions have emerged about whether individual districts can legally require public schoolchildren to receive COVID-19 shots, spurring opposition. Experts say previous legal rulings indicate that schools can generally mandate vaccinations for students and employees. But in California, where the state Legislature has already passed laws on student vaccination mandates, it’s unclear how much latitude districts might have to require schoolchildren to get the shot. Legal scholars expect that the courts will have to work out the details.
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https://www.capradio.org/170328 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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School board group asks US for help policing threats |
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A group representing school board members around the country asked President Joe Biden on Thursday for federal assistance to investigate and stop threats made over policies including mask mandates, likening the vitriol to a form of domestic terrorism.
Parents and community members have been disrupting meetings and threatening board members in person, online and through the mail in a trend that merits attention from federal law enforcement agencies, the National School Boards Association said in a letter to Biden.
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https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-education-school-boards-940da42fac771366929fc2150c8acf4d |
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Parents want to recall Los Alamitos school board after teacher asks students their preferred pronouns |
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In the first week of school, a teacher at Oak Middle School greeted his students and sent out a survey asking them their preferred pronouns during class.
Current and former students said it was the teacher's way of creating an inclusive and welcoming classroom experience. But that gender identity question has culminated in a simmering debate about what is appropriate to teach in classrooms that finally boiled over Tuesday between disgruntled parents and the Los Alamitos Unified School Board at a school board meeting.
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https://bit.ly/3m6u25i |
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