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An Insider investigation has found that California s highest-ranking education official and leading public universities worked closely with a swaggering entrepreneur to give special accommodations to students at a private high school for elite families in China.
UC Irvine offered summer school programs specially arranged for students at the private academy in Qingdao, China, dispatched admissions staffers to its campus to talk to students and their parents, and reported on the students progress through the admissions cycle.
At UC Riverside, the ties were even closer: The university pledged to work with the school s students to help them become competitive applicants and offered them special permission to submit applications even after the deadline had passed.
An Insider investigation found that some of California's highest-ranking education officials and leading public universities helped an elite private school in China seek preferential treatment for its students.
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When David Lee addressed the Sahuarita Unified School District Governing Board on Wednesday night, he ended by congratulating the parents who recently protested the mask mandate at Vail Unified School District. A small crowd cheered.
Eleven parents submitted calls to the public and, for the most part, their message was the same: End the mask mandate.
The debate came up at other districts in Pima County last week. On Tuesday, about 100 people showed up in Vail to protest the mask mandate. The VUSD board called sheriffâs deputies and canceled the meeting over safety concerns as some parents pushed their way inside.
TUCSON (KVOA) - Tanque Verde Unified School District canceled Wednesday s school board meeting at the recommendation of the Pima County Sheriff s Department after reports of an anti-mask protest surfaced earlier that day.
As this new order allowed K-12 school districts and charter schools still maintain the right to institute and enforce policies to mitigate against COVID-19 spread, including the use of masks, several local school districts, including Vail Unified School District and Tanque Verde School District, elected to maintain its requirement for face masks and coverings while on school grounds.
In response to the governor s recent order, TVUSD said in a statement that it will continue its board policy and board-adopted mitigation plan that requires “all persons, including, but not limited to, staff, students, vendors, visitors, and volunteers, shall wear a mask while on any District property, in any District facility, at any District event, whether indoors or outdoors,