The California Department of Education (CDE) has selected Castaic High School and 11 other schools throughout the state to receive mini-grants, totaling more than $240,000, to help address equity and opportunity gaps, announced State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.
Castaic High School will receive $20,000 to pay for district buses to pick up students from a central location in an underserved neighborhood.
Since the applications were announced in December 2020 as part of CDE’s ongoing efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic’s continued impact on students, more than 400 schools and districts across California applied for the grants, which are funded by contributions from philanthropic partners.
Obviously, 2020 was unlike any other year.
You can lock down our cities, quarantine our residents, restrict our local businesses and cancel our parades. But you cannot stop the world from turning.Â
Each December, Tehachapi News takes time to reflect on the year with a summary of top stories featured in the newspaper.
So here is our collection of top stories. Your list may be different â we realize that. But read on for some highlights, a mix of news and features.
Citizen, Large and Small Business of the year
The Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and Tehachapi News jointly presented honors to Citizen of the Year Carl Gehricke, Small Business of the Year Ashmore Motors and Large Business of the Year Kaiser Permanente in January.
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Parents of students in Tehachapi Unified School District are expressing concern about the struggles their children face while learning from home in the wake of the district s decision to return to virtual learning as of Dec. 7. My kids are missing the regular daily structure in school. It is very important for them to have peer interaction as well as consistent in-person instruction. These are life skills that they will never get back, said Beth Bryant, a mother of two.
She said both of her children had coronavirus and exhibited very little symptoms for one day. This virus is not something to shut the whole country down over, Bryant said. Other states are clearly doing fine with in-person school with careful restrictions. I don t understand why this district/state can t do the same.
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