Oakland:
- “Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil” How the Oakland NAACP is Pushing for Research Based Literacy for OUR Children, Why Won’t OUSD Listen
- How Dumping the D Supports Struggling Students and Preps them for College
- Four OUSD Teachers Receive Special Recognition From Alameda County Office of Education
- College Of Alameda To Launch No-Cost Certified Nursing Assistant Program
- Educators are frontline workers who should receive the vaccine as soon as possible
California:
- California Prisoners Raised Over $30,000 For a High School Student in Need
- What Prop. 15’s defeat means for California schools
Other Stories:
Oakland:
- “Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil” How the Oakland NAACP is Pushing for Research Based Literacy for OUR Children, Why Won’t OUSD Listen
- A powerful video from Kareem Weaver of the the Oakland NAACP, speaking truth to publishers and those who would adopt curricula that have never been shown to work for Black and Brown children from Oakland. We need policies and adoptions that serve our children, get the facts and learn how you can help.
- How Dumping the D Supports Struggling Students and Preps them for College
- Solutions to complex problems are sometimes right in front of us. Yet for whatever reason, we don’t act. Change is difficult when everyone is doing the same thing, year after year — now matter how bad the results. So we ignore the low-hanging fruit dangling right there. It’s hard to be one of the first to try something new.
- Four OUSD Teachers Receive Special Recognition From Alameda County Office of Education
- This year, the annual Alameda County Office of Education (ACOE) Teacher of the Year Awards ceremony was unlike any other. The ceremony happened online earlier this month, and the county sent no winners to the 2020 California Teacher of the Year competition. There was also a new award called the Bridging the Distance Award, for teachers who have done remarkable work in distance learning.
- College Of Alameda To Launch No-Cost Certified Nursing Assistant Program
- Responding to a statewide shortage of certified nursing assistants, the College of Alameda will offer a new no-cost, noncredit Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training program starting in the spring 2021 semester, which starts Jan. 25.
- Educators are frontline workers who should receive the vaccine as soon as possible
- Here in Oakland Unified, we are on our winter break, usually a time when our students, staff and families are joyfully free of school and preparing to come together to celebrate the holidays or just enjoy some much needed time off.
California:
- California Prisoners Raised Over $30,000 For a High School Student in Need
- A group of inmates from the Soledad State Prison bonded with a high school student from an all-boys prep school in the area through their love of reading after attending the same book club. After the group learned the student was struggling to pay the leftover $1,200 balance for his monthly tuition, the men got together to fundraise and successfully garnered over $30,000.
- What Prop. 15’s defeat means for California schools
- Voters narrowly defeated Proposition 15, the tax measure that aimed to eliminate decades-long protections for commercial properties – dashing hopes of billions of dollars flowing into California’s cash-strapped public schools and community colleges in the coming years.
Other Stories:
- Biden selects CT’s Miguel Cardona to lead the U.S. Department of Education
- President-elect Joe Biden has selected Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona for the job of leading the U.S. Department of Education.
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