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Making the transition to Common Core
Rosemead Reader Monrovia WEEKLY Temple MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 - OCTOBER 20, 2013 VOLUME 18, NO. 41
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Government may be shut down but not Arcadia High Constitution team BY SHEL SEGAL
Rather than hiring outside consultants, Arcadia Unified is using a team of talented educators from within to make the crucial transition to the new Common Core State Standards. Over the next two years, the state is allocating funding to assist districts in making the change to the Standards, which align curricula across 46 states and the District of Columbia. Arcadia Unified is receiving $1.9 million over 2013-14 and 2014-15 to proceed with its implementation of the Common Core. “The idea was to use the funding to identify and support teachers who could serve as mentors and coach-
With the government making news lately for its inactivity, it might be a good idea to look at how it really is supposed to work. Luckily, the Constitution team at Arcadia High School is already busy looking into this. Studying in conjunction with the school’s AP Government class, Constitution team students take a deeper look at the document that is the framework for the federal government. “It’s a program called ‘We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution,’” said Kevin Fox, advisor for the class. “It’s a national program. There are thousands of schools across the country that have students engage in this program. What it really does is engage high school seniors in a really rigorous thorough evaluation of the Constitution. Where does it come from? What are the ideas it’s built on? What does it say? What does it mean? How is it applied? Misapplied? Interpreted?” Fox said this subject is important for all students to study. “They’re going to be
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District recruits AUSD teachers to serve as classroom mentors for implementation
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Governor signs bill giving military personnel a tax break – AB 143 Members of the Armed Forces and National Guard will get a break on state use tax when they are transferred to California under Assemblymember Chris Holden’s bill signed today by Governor Brown. “It just doesn’t seem fair to tax active duty military personnel when they are already making so many sacrifices,” explained Assemblymember Holden (D-Pasadena). “It’s the right thing to do to relieve some of the tax burden for our service men and women who are already sacrificing so much for their country.” AB 143, the Military Use Tax Exemption, would eliminate a type of sales tax known as use tax, on personal property purchased by an active duty military member or
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Gerardo Cortez arraignment continued to Oct. 25
Foster Farms Salmonella outbreak causes serious concern
BY SHEL SEGAL schools, a medical center, a shopping mall and a police agency – including Arcadia High School. The calls forced searches in several communities. Police departments of the cities of Arcadia, Covina and Monrovia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators from Temple Station, Major Crimes Bureau, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force launched a joint investigation which resulted to the suspect’s arrest. Cortez is charged with six counts of making criminal threats and five counts of falsely reporting an
CDC cites 278 cases - 213 cases from California
The arraignment of a Monrovia man who allegedly made a series of threats to several San Gabriel Valley locations recently has been postponed to Oct. 25 as the suspect’s attorney requested a continuation of the hearing at the West Covina Courthouse in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday. This is the second postponement of the case as Gerardo Cortez, 26, was first set to be arraigned on Sept. 19. Cortez – who has a history of making false bomb threats – was arrested on Sept. 17 after allegedly calling in threats to several
emergency. The complaint also alleges Cortez has a prior conviction of falsely reporting a bomb to an agency or business. Using advanced
CDC is collaborating with public health and agriculture officials in many states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections. Public health investigators are using DNA “fingerprints” of Salmonella bacteria obtained through diagnostic testing with pulsedfield gel electrophoresis, or PFGE, to identify cases of illness that may be part of this outbreak. They are using data from PulseNet, the
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