Sacramento parents have a new school option: Virtual academies for kids who want to stay home
Sacramento Bee 1 day ago Sawsan Morrar, The Sacramento Bee
May 7 The pandemic sent thousands of public school students in the Sacramento region home. And some will choose to stay there in the fall, even as schools prepare for more robust in-person instruction.
Virtual academies are beginning to pop up across the state, establishing full online campuses with schedules that resemble a traditional school day, along with live, daily interactions with teachers.
About 40 school districts in California have applied to register virtual academies with the California Department of Education. Locally, Rocklin, Natomas, Folsom Cordova, Davis, Washington Unified in West Sacramento and the Dry Creek Joint Elementary school districts have applications that have been approved.
PENDLETON â Pendleton High School will soon have a new principal.
The Pendleton School District School Board has selected Patrick âPatâ Dutcher as the schoolâs new leader. Dutcherâs contract begins on July 1. Dutcher will replace current PHS Principal Melissa Sandven, who resigned effective June 30 earlier in the year.
âMr. Dutcher possesses the qualities we were looking for in our next principal, high integrity, instructional leader, student-centered and a great communicator,â said Superintendent Chris Fritsch. âFinding someone with knowledge and understanding of our area was also important to the selection committee.â
Dutcher is currently the principal of EDGE High School in the Salem-Keizer School District. Prior to that, he served as the curriculum principal at West Salem High School.
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5:04p.m.: CPS reports slight increase in 14-day case rate
The Columbia Public Schools 14-day case rate per 10,000 people is at 11.9. It was at 9.9 the day students returned back to the classroom full-time.Â
The updated CPS student tracker shows 110 students in the district currently in quarantine and 6 active student cases.
The district has seen 2,801 quarantined student cases and 649 positive student cases since June 2020.Â
The updated CPS staff tracker also shows 7 staff members currently in quarantine and 2 active staff cases. 1 staff member is out due to EFMLA laws.
The tracker also shows 61.3% of CPS staff members have been vaccinated.Â
4:28 p.m.: Cole County adds 3 new positive cases
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COTTONWOOD Â One young person died and five more were injured in separate accidents reported over the weekend in Lyon and Yellow Medicine Counties, area law enforcement said.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an ATV crash reported Saturday afternoon in Stanley Township. The operator of the ATV was identified as Parker Viaene of rural Cottonwood. Viaene was pronounced dead at the scene due to injuries sustained in the crash, the Sheriff’s Office said.
A total of five young men were also injured at a bonfire in rural Granite Falls over the weekend, the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office said. Three of the injured people, ages 18, 20 and 20, were airlifted for burn treatment.