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February 13, 2023 DOWNEY, CA Eight high-performing middle grade schools in the ABCUSD, Bassett Unified, El Rancho Unified and Norwalk-La Mirada Unified have been recognized this year by the California Schools to Watch program. “Congratulations to these high-achieving schools for creating programs that promote the academic performance and healthy development of young people,” said…
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The California Education Code mandates art, music, theatre and dance be offered to every student, yet less than one-in-five public schools today have a full-time arts and music teacher. That could change with a proposed state ballot measure that would guarantee funding for arts in public schools. Meanwhile, a new state law requires that all food waste be composted rather than sent to landfills. A composting specialist calls the new law a much needed "kick in the pants" for cities and counties that have not been doing this in the past. Plus, in what many are calling a surprise victory, an Indigenous woman was found not guilty on federal charges of blocking border wall construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Ofelia Lopez-Villamar, a school office assistant at Jefferson Elementary in the Carlsbad Unified School District, has been named the 2021 Countywide Classified School Employee of the Year by the San Diego County Office of Education.