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Rising Philanthropists, Focused On Results
Increasingly, wealthy individuals are taking a strategic approach to philanthropy, aiming to achieve specific outcomes rather than simply writing a check.
Benicia Unified School District had 316 second grade students during 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education. Los Angeles Unified School District had the highest number of second grade students enrolled in California with 46,151.
According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.
“I don’t want to have this on my shoulders anymore – I go to work and I’m with children and I have to go home and I worry about giving it to my parents,” said program director Alexandra Dutton.
Dutton runs the Old Firehouse School in Lafayette and some of the toddlers, 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds her staff cares for are the children of essential workers.
“They’re doctors, they’re nurses, we have firefighters,” said Dutton.
Even though the pre-school has followed the state’s COVID-19 guidelines, Dutton says a child, showing no signs of being sick, tested positive for COVID-19, forcing some children to stay home and staff to go into quarantine. Dutton is urging state officials – if you want the economy to bounce back, vaccinate teachers and child care workers soon.
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Dec. 14, 2020
Santa Clara Co. officials shorten quarantine length from 14 days to 10 days
Santa Clara County released new COVID-19 quarantine guidance on Monday, which shortens the length of quarantine from 14 to 10 days. The new guidance applies to both close contacts of COVID-19 cases and those subject to the county s mandatory travel quarantine. We constantly want to take into account all the best science we have, said Dr. Sarah Rudman, assistant health officer and director of case investigation and contact tracing. We feel the science that the CDC shared with us over the last several weeks confirmed by the California Department of Public Health s review tells us there is a minimum loss of safety by making the change from 14 to 10 days. Essentially, the new guidelines are about finding the balance between the benefit of quarantining and the benefit of getting people back to school or work, Rudman said.