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CAWS is pleased to announce that Imperial Middle School in
La Habra, La Habra City School District has been authorized as the 69th school to offer the IB Middle Years Programme in California. Congratulations on this noteworthy achievement!

CAWS membership is open throughout the academic school year. We are here to support you in your pursuit of educating and supporting your students. Continue for of complete list of CAWS services, member benefits and membership form.

On April 14, on the heels of Senator Pan pulling his vaccine mandate bill, the Governor’s office announced they will further delay the implementation of the current student COVID-19 vaccination requirement. This means the soonest the new requirement would take effect is July 1, 2023, effectively pushing back implementation to the 2023-24 school year.

As we continue our breakdown of key pieces of legislation that we think school leaders should know about, below we take a look at bills in the early learning and care space

Kelsey has graciously shared her slides as well as additional resources from her recent CAWS/IB Virtual Event

The Legislature continues to focus significant attention on issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the COVID related bills that were introduced, we want to bring to your attention the notable policy proposals that would have a direct impact on students, school employees, and school governing boards.

Yesterday, The Newsom Administration announced the state’s requirement for masking in schools will expire on Friday, March 11, allowing students, regardless of vaccination status, to be without a face mask at school beginning Monday, March 14.

Attached please find an updated version of the power point presented at the Association meeting with the IBO Director General regarding the use of federal funds to support IB schools and students.
There are many allowable uses of these funds for IB purposes, as noted in the power point.  We hope that in 2022 the use of this funding will lead to many more students being able to access an IB education.

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) had its first meeting of 2022 late last week. Highlights from the meeting are listed below:

Happy November! I hope this email finds you are healthy and doing well.

Olli-Pekka Heinonen, IB Director General hosted IB's first Cross Regional Associations Meeting in October. Michael Winsatt, CAWS President, Jessica Downing, CAWS Vice-President and I attended this meeting virtually on behalf of CAWS. I am pleased to share a variety of informative and supportive documents that I received from IBO and Robert Kelty, Ed.D, Senior Development Manager IBO after this meeting.

Developing an Ethnic Studies model curriculum involved a lot of conflict over the last four years, but LEAs now have an opportunity to avoid those conflicts and begin implementing inclusive and educational programs. Following is the history and some thoughts on how to move forward.

At the November State Board of Education (SBE) meeting, the Board took action to further move K-12 education forward from COVID-19. Below is a summary of the major issues and takeaways from the meeting followed by information on the regular agenda items and waiver requests heard by the Board.
 
Highlights follow:

This week we have Governor Bob Wise back on to outline the key elements of the new infrastructure package and the lingering politics of the reconciliation bill and the fate of the President’s budget proposals (Congressional appropriations process.) In addition, Tim links this to the investments in broadband related to procuring devices as they age out and the growing pressure to have E-Rate cover cybersecurity costs in K-12.