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The California Department of Education (CDE) has selected Castaic High School and 11 other schools throughout the state to receive mini-grants, totaling more than $240,000, to help address equity and opportunity gaps, announced State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.
Castaic High School will receive $20,000 to pay for district buses to pick up students from a central location in an underserved neighborhood.
Since the applications were announced in December 2020 as part of CDE’s ongoing efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic’s continued impact on students, more than 400 schools and districts across California applied for the grants, which are funded by contributions from philanthropic partners.
The seven bus drivers are now preparing classrooms for students when they return to classes. We take care of going to all the schools and putting plexiglass around all the desks, said Jazmin Lopez, a bus driver in the South Bay for more than 14 years.
The bus drivers are now making sure the classrooms are meeting the state s requirement for reopening schools safely which includes spacing out desks, signage and installing plexiglass on desks. All schools in our district have been prepared by our bus drivers, Azevedo said.
Amy Ramirez has been working as a bus driver for five years in the district and is responsible for transporting a small number of special education children. She as the rest of her colleagues await the return of the students to school.
By Mario A. Cortez
Education and civil rights leaders from throughout San Diego County showed up at the San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) to speak out against a local law firm which has been handling 90 percent of school district legal cases throughout San Diego County.
The National Action Network’s San Diego chapter held a press conference on the SDCOE premises prior to Wednesday’s scheduled board meeting to raise its concerns with the law firm of Stutz, Artiano, Shinoff & Holtz, and specifically its senior partner, Daniel Shinoff.
“Today, we will begin a strategy in dealing with the Shinoff Law Group and the SDCOE’s use of this law group,” stated the Reverend Shane Harris, President of the National Action Network’s San Diego chapter.
By Eduardo Rueda / Investigative Reporter
The San Diego County Board of Education placed long-time County Superintendent Randy Ward on administrative leave as they initiate a forensic audit in the wake of a lawsuit claiming Ward was engaged in self-dealing.
At the monthly meeting of the County Board of Education on Wednesday, July 13, several teachers spoke about concerns raised in a lawsuit filed last week by the California Taxpayer Action Network (CalTAN). The lawsuit alleges that Ward asked for and received an amendment to his contract in 2014 that connected his pay raises to those given to teachers and classified employees of the County.