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By Kathy Chouteau
As the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) readies to reopen Mon., April 19, the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) has announced the reactivation of a number of supplementary bus linesâalso known as the 600-seriesâto schools throughout the East Bay. Due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, the supplementary bus lines had been temporarily suspended since March 2020.
Following Gov. Gavin Newsomâs December 2020 announcement of the âSafe Schools for Allâ guidelines to reinstate in-person academic instruction, AC Transit worked to coordinate with East Bay school districts and independent school administrators to determine their reopening dates and has confirmed that multiple schools will reopen Monday.Â
By Kathy Chouteau
The West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) has a new superintendent. At its Wed., April 14 meeting, the Board of Trustees voted 5-0 to name Dr. Kenneth “Chris” Hurst, Sr. as the district’s next superintendent. Dr. Hurst, who will leave his role as superintendent of the Othello School District in Othello, Wash. to lead the WCCUSD, will commence his three-year contract May 17.
In his new role, Dr. Hurst will bear the distinction of the being the WCCUSD’s first permanent African American superintendent. (Per the district, Sylvester Greenwood and Dr. Cynthia LeBlanc both served as interim superintendents for one-year terms). He will be the district’s 10
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Counselor Erica Martinez has a clearly defined mission: help high school students discover their passions and find a path that will lead them to opportunity, happiness, and success after graduation.
“As a counselor you’re guiding young people on how they’re going to do their education,” remarked Martinez, “but you’re also helping them become adults.”
For Martinez, the call to pursue a career in academic counseling was fueled in part by her own experience with counselors in her hometown of Fresno, California. Martinez recalled seeing her own counselor in high school “maybe one time” and shared that college was not part of the conversation, leaving her to wonder why her post-high school plans and options were never discussed.
By Kathy Chouteau
Students from the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) have organized a “March in Solidarity with the AAPI Community” Sat. April 3 at 2 p.m. The march will start at El Cerrito High School and then proceed to El Cerrito City Hall.
“We stand in solidarity against the recent and historical anti-Asian hate crimes,” the group stated in a flier posted on the WCCUSD’s Facebook page. “Join us to hear from AAPI youth community members and to demand an end to this racist violence.”
The student march comes amid rising number of hate crime incidents targeting the Asian community in the East Bay, San Francisco and nationwide.