PUBLISHED: July 27, 2021 at 8:25 p.m. | UPDATED: July 28, 2021 at 4:06 p.m. On the same day that more than 200 residents met for an Orange County Board of Education forum on ethnic studies, a new . New Florida bill requires curriculum transparency, sets school board We cannot be regressive. However, he is concerned that any vaccine passport needs to be handled with care because it will have sensitive medical information and can be a target for hackers. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Board of Education / Board Members - Orange County Public Schools Superintendent, Tustin Unified School District - Professor - USC, Dr. Herb Fischer (ret.) OCCTA president and art teacher Clinton McCracken speaks out against politically-motivated book bans in Orange County public schools. Orange County School Board considers suing social media giants We have to be inclusive. If approved, SB-286 . School boards have become a political war zone in the battle for the next generation's minds and beliefs. Superintendent, Fullerton Joint Union High School District, Dr. Greg Franklin (ret.) I dont think that anybody here today would deny that racism sadly continues to play a role in our society, board member Lisa Sparks said during the press conference. But Farrant, who has a history of complaining about the presence of books with LGBTQ themes in schools, made a point of saying that indoctrination can go quite a few ways and that there are other children in the school district as well who deserve attention. Still, the cost of a possible recall election was a big concern for some parents who spoke out against the recall effort. First-term board member Maria Salamanca, a Latina woman who identifies as LGBTQ, added that 40% of books banned in U.S. schools contain LGBTQ characters or themes, and 40% have had a protagonist of color, demonstrating clear disparities. Some Florida teachers, in the face of a potential felony charge, have gotten rid of their classroom libraries altogether. Thank you to the rest of the @OCPSnews Board members who defended our LGBTQ+ and BIPOC students to this bigot. You can vote for 1 of these 2 candidates. The Los Alamitos school board is not alone. When it comes to the vaccine passport, Noymer said the analogies to the Nazis is over the top. 2021-22 Annual Report by Orange County Public Schools - Issuu Those little yellow cards, I bet if we ask where those are for our children, half of us wouldnt know, Gomez said. O.C. school board suing Newsom over K-12 COVID mask mandate - Los Santa Ana was one of the regions hit hardest by COVID-19. Candidate Q&A: Orange County School Board chair Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Orange County and other California sites to close mass COVID-19 vaccination centers, Pen mightier than the tweet at Great American Write-In, Heritage Hill Historical Park to host Rancho Days Fiesta, O.C. This is in direct violation of Nuremberg trials and using everyone as guinea pigs.. jortegajr@orangeusd.org Californias COVID-19 prevention strategies are the best way to fully open our schools while protecting students and staff, and the states guidance fully aligns with the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics, the department told The Times. The teacher's pronoun survey issue is the latest uproar at Los Alamitos Unified District, which has become the center of Orange County's cultural and political issues relating to students and children. The vote came as COVID-19 cases surged and as a large contingent of anti-maskers emerged in Orange County. I'm not happy with the forced indoctrination of gender fluidity that is happening at the middle school.". But sometimes your words suggest that you don't understand quite what it's like to walk in those shoes, and how important it is for us to show our support to our kids.. I think this district has done a good job of making sure that kids all feel included, Farrant said. School board chair and former Orange County mayor Teresa Jacobs, in discussion afterwards, agreed with the sentiment shared by McCracken, and said the board should in the future discuss what they . 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. Gavin Newsom to reopen schools for in-person instruction has voted to challenge him . Last August, the Orange County board sued Newsom to reopen schools that had been closed because of COVID-19. She previously served two terms as Orange County Mayor (2010-2018) and two terms as an Orange County Commissioner (2000-2008).
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