Because of the recent rainfall, Los Angeles County Health Officer Muntu Davis, MD, MPH, is cautioning residents about beach water use due to bacteria, chemicals, debris, trash, and other public health hazards from city streets and mountain areas that are likely to contaminate ocean waters at and around discharging storm drains, creeks, and rivers.
Individuals who enter the water in these areas could become ill.
This advisory will be in effect until at least Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30 a.m. and may be extended depending on further rainfall.
Recorded information on beach water use conditions is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-525-5662.
Public school districts are monitoring West Valley surges in COVID-19 spread â while hoping to get as many teachers as possible vaccinated.
One West Valley district pushed reopening classrooms until March 15, to give teachers and staff time to get vaccinations.
While educators are in the 1B group that is eligible for coronavirus vaccinations, many are finding difficulty in landing appointments. This is part of a county-wide trend of demand exceeding the vaccine supply.
Agua Fria Unified High School District is partnering with Abrazo West Campus to host an educator point of distribution (POD). âThe first vaccine event will be held Jan. 29 and 30,â said Tamee Gressett, a district administrator. âThe second vaccine event will be held Feb. 19-20.â
“While at Chatsworth High, Mr. Gomez was also a Humanitas teacher and coordinator as well as Youth Crisis Intervention Coordinator, a football coach and a wrestling coach,” reads a statement issued by the district Friday.
Then, in 2006, Gomez became Dean of Students at Chatsworth High, a position he held until 2013 when he moved to Moorpark Unified School District. There, he served as an administrator overseeing many programs at Moorpark High, Moorpark Community Continuation High School and most recently Campus Canyon College Prep Academy.
Additionally, Gomez has also served as the District School Attendance Review Board Chairperson.
He has participated in many training programs including crisis and anti-bullying training, and has been a guest lecturer at Cal Lutheran University, Loyola Marymount University, National University and parent empowerment workshops.
The William S. Hart Union High School District governing board voted 3-1 Wednesday night to let athletic conditioning return to district campuses Jan. 27.
During the nearly four-hour meeting, of which the athletic conditioning conversation took up more than an hour, board members debated whether it was safe for student-athletes to begin once again working out in outdoor, group-based, non-contact settings.
Eventually, the board voted to allow teams to return to outdoor-only, no-contact, cohort-based conditioning next week, with proponents citing the importance of athletics in improving both physical and mental health. Board President Cherise Moore emphasized, however, that coaches and players would not be penalized should they decide to not return next week.
Sweetwater School District Discovers $30 Million Hole in Annual Budget
By Sandra G. Leon
South Bay middle and high schools could face budget cuts after the district found it had $30 million less than it expected.
The District made the issue public at a monthly meeting of its Board of Trustees this Monday.
“When our staff was finalizing this [budget] report in late August, we detected some cause for concern of a potential shortfall in closing our financial books for the 17-18 school year,” reads a statement from its Board of Trustees and Superintendent Karen Janney.
The budget miscalculation seems to have been discovered after a new chief financial officer began working at the District last month.