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OPINION: The classroom shouldn’t be isolated from what happens in the real world; it should be an extension of students’ lives.

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The defeat leaves schools and community college without a prospect of additional long-term revenue at a time they’re facing a pandemic that has hit low-income communities particularly hard, and potentially years of funding cuts and slow economic growth.

Surging Covid-19 cases pushed three more counties into the most restrictive tier on the state tracking system, putting plans to reopen school campuses on pause.

California voters defeat Proposition 15, a measure to collect higher property taxes from commercial properties.

Private schools continue to dominate the county’s reopening ranks. And of the few public schools that have been granted waivers, only one has a high proportion of students who can be considered low-income by qualifying for free and reduced-price meals.

UPDATED: Sacramento, San Diego and Stanislaus counties moved from the red substantial tier back to the purple, meaning that schools cannot open for in-person instruction unless they have a waiver from the county office of education.

President-elect Joe Biden announced his 20 person education transition team with Linda Darling-Hammond as lead.

The coronavirus and the shift to online learning have made it more challenging for schools to support students once they’ve transferred.

OPINION by Lumina Foundation: Skills and knowledge matter, but workers must be able to apply them to solve problems in rapidly shifting work environments.

Community colleges don’t get the love they deserve from the higher ups, Amy Leonard, an English professor at De Anza College said. But most importantly, Dr. Jill Biden can advocate for career and technical education, or CTE, programs from the White House.

2021 California Teacher of the Year Profile: Jim Klipfel is a ninth- through twelfth-grade Social Studies and Athletics teacher at Saugus High School in the Wil...liam S. Hart Union High School District, Los Angeles County. He’s also California’s representative for the National Teacher of the Year competition, which will be announced in the spring. Our national teacher of the year candidate is a history teacher, swim coach, and a survivor and first responder to the Saugus High School Shooting that occurred in November 2019. While Jim Klipfel (Coach Klipfel) is a very humble man and does not lead with this story of heroism, his letters of recommendation from his principal and superintendent share the true magnitude of how he was there for his students on that fateful day, and how he supports their growth and achievement on a daily basis. Somehow, even with his high standards and expectations, he manages to be one of those teachers that attracts dozens of students to his classroom before school, during brunch and lunch, and after the end of the school day, said William S. Hart Union High School District Superintendent, Michael Kuhlman. Students gravitate toward him because they know that he genuinely cares for their well-being. Coach Klipfel believes that student mental health needs to be a priority in schools and is committed to the essential role that literacy plays in the education of a child. He says it’s not just him accepting this honor. He’s sharing it with all of his colleagues at Saugus High School because he believes they are all heroes. Read more about the 2021 California Teacher of the Year Award: https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr20/yr20rel86.asp