Saturday, May 19, 2012
Students from schools across Orange County showcase their art at the Orange County Green Fair.
Paint, paper, bottles, aluminum and used tea bags were just a few of the materials transformed into art at the Orange County Green Fair's art walk. Created by students living in Orange County, every piece of art on display represented the artist's views on "Going Green." While some of the art displayed messages of conservation and sustainability, others used recycled items to create something new and original. Check out the slideshow from the student art walk above.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Two actors in the spring drama club show are in the running for Music and Arts Commendation for Youth award.
They like us! They really like us! San Clemente High School seniors Nathan Corbett and Julia Flynn are both invited to attend the M.A.C.Y. callbacks for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for their performances in this spring's "The Music Man." Corbett said he's excited for the recognition, which will be another impressive resume item for the future U.C. Berkeley film school student. "I want to do it all -- I want to be well-versed so I can do as much as possible," Corbett said. "Ultimately, I want to become a director and filmmaker." The Music and Arts Commendation for Youth awards were founded in 1969 in Los Angeles to recognize excellence in high school musical theater. Judges from the organization this year attended 42 …
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A beach-goer's children collected stones from the beach near Trestles, and the rocks apparently burst into flames, sending her to the hospital.
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Officials are investigating a bizarre injury caused by beach stones that apparently burst into flames in a woman's pockets, CNS reports. The 43-year-old woman's children, who were collecting stones along the beach near Trestles, gave their mother the seemingly unremarkable rocks to hold. At about 3:30 p.m., they burst into flames, leaving the mother hospitalized in Santa Ana with third-degree burns. CNS reports that the Orange County Health Care Agency was investigating the incident The woman had burns to her right thigh and knee, said Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Marc Stone said. He said the victim "stopped, dropped and rolled'' in an effort to douse the flames, and her husband suffered second-degree burns to his hand as he tried to…
Monday, May 14, 2012
If voters shoot down a November initiative to temporarily raise taxes, school districts statewide would face $5.5 billion in cuts, about $700 million worse than what the governor estimated in January.
Gov. Jerry Brown continues to lay his hopes for state fiscal soundness on a November tax initiative, but if it doesn’t pass, schools will face additional cuts that could chop three weeks off the next school year. On Monday, Brown revised the 2012-13 budget he first released in January. Called the May revise, his new figures reflect tax revenues that have fallen far short of earlier predictions. “It’s a difficult budget,” Brown acknowledged in a press conference. If voters approve his temporary tax hike measure, Brown’s revised budget would actually increase funding for schools by $15 billion in four years, or $2,500 per student. Brown called the tax initiative reasonable. “I think it’s fair, and I think it provides a reliable source of …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Annual ROP Distinguished Student Awards ceremony awards scholarships in five career majors as well as a select number of special scholarships funded by the ROP staff and community partners.
When students earn awards through the Capistrano-Laguna Regional Occupational Program, a whole audience gets to hear their praises from the teachers who shepherded them along. The nominating teachers used words like "passion," "vision," "intensity," "achievement," "outstanding," "driven," "talented," "remarkable" and "inspirational." The audience hearing these adjectives were with well-dressed students, supporting family members, sponsoring business partners and many representatives from the Capistrano Unified and Laguna Beach Unified school districts, who filled the theater at San Juan Hills High to the brim Wednesday. The ROP honored outstanding students who enrolled in specialty classes which focus on career-oriented instruction, …
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The San Clemente High School Triton Auditorium hosted a showing of "Overtaken," a local documentary about prescription drug overdose and addiction.
Orange County has the second-highest death rate in the nation for prescription pill overdose deaths among those aged 15 to 24. And according to filmmaker Christine Brandt -- herself a mother -- these victims are kids on the football team, cheerleading squad and student government. Brandt and bereaved mother Jodi Barber created the film Overtaken which was screened at the San Clemente High School Auditorium Tuesday night. Speaking during the program, attended by a couple hundred students and parents, was Dr. Robert Winkour, medical director for Mission Hospitals; Lt. John Coppock, chief of San Clemente Police Services; and Aisha Armer, an overdose survivor who still has physical and speech difficulties two years into her recovery. "I felt …
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John Freeh and Father Robert Spitzer share with parents their hopes to help students maintain a curiosity for learning and desire for faith.
“The mind is created as a heat-seeking missile with respect to the truth; it wants to know what the truth is, and that is true at every stage of one’s life," said John Freeh, tapped in February to become the next principal at JSerra Catholic High School. Guiding that heat-seeking missile and cultivating a sense of curiosity and wonder is how he sees his job, which technically starts in July. Freeh said wants each teacher to treat his career as a vocation; a calling. Taking the lead from poems such as “The Four Quartets,” is one way in which Freeh learns about how to be such a leader, he said. “ 'Old men ought to be explorers,' ” Freeh quoted T.S. Eliot. He believes that the quote expresses the human need to constantly be learning. Freeh …
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Capo Unified holds off on requesting a state waiver to allow more students per teacher this fall.
Two weeks after bungling a school board agenda item that could have paved the way for more students per classroom, the Capistrano Unified School District now plans to indefinitely postpone any public hearings on the idea. After learning that the state Board of Education won't consider requests to exceed maximum classroom sizes until September, CUSD announced on its website that the district would spend more time "to determine if there’s a need to increase class size and to explore ways to avoid such an increase." So, instead of discussing the idea at CUSD's upcoming Board of Trustee meeting, officials will wait. If the district later decides bigger class sizes are needed to cut spending, trustees will hold a public hearing. "The state …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Concordia and Palisades principals warn parents to be extra vigilant about child safety.
Local elementary school officials are warning parents to reinforce their children's wariness of strangers after two suspicious incidents have rattled local families. Both incidents involved white panel vans, but that appears to be the only similarity. Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino said the department is investigating both incidents, but they don't appear to be connected. Tuesday afternoon, a white panel van parked near Camino Capistrano and Via Canon made a U-turn and crept along behind two elementary school students walking home, according to an email sent to parents by the Concordia and Palisades elementary school principals. "There were no houses or buildings nearby," the email states. "When the boys began to…
READER CONTRIBUTION: The Capistrano Unified School District held an informational meeting Tuesday for parents interested in the new K-8 Virtual School. Here's what you need to know.
EDITOR'S NOTE: San Juan Capistrano resident Susan Rea went to the parent information night about Capistrano Unified School District's new virtual K-8 school, which is set to launch in September. These are her notes. Because the mostly online school starts with kindergarteners, parents can't just seat their kids in front of a computer and expect them to learn. Administrator Meg Ervais described the K-2 program as requiring more parental involvement. While Students in K-2 will be guided by a program called "Little Lincoln" the students will use text books and workbooks that directly correlate to the online teachings. Grades 3-5 will use the "Lincoln" which is a bit more independent. They still use text and workbooks. While both …
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