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County to conduct voter outreach for convicts
Students at a classroom at St. Hope Public School 7 Elementary in Sacramento. California’s education department updated its statewide data system in the spring but the rollout resulted in thousands of errors. Key information about special education students and other high-needs groups was missing or miscalculated.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer In partnership with the Yolo County Elections Office, the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office and the Yolo County Probation Department will conduct voter education and outreach to people impacted by the criminal-legal system, the county announced Friday. The two county offices want their clients and the general public to know that everyone in the community retains the right to vote, regardless of any misdemeanor or felony convictions. Voters must register to vote by Oct. 24 to be eligible to vote on election day (Nov. 8). The probation department will host voter registration drives at the Woodland and West Sacramento offices on Oct. 6 and the public defender’s office will host a voter registration drive on National Voter Registration Day – Sept. 20. In collaboration with the Yolo County Children’s Alliance, the public defender’s office will host this voter registration drive at Project Homekey in West Sacramento. The probation department and public defender’s office are also putting up voting rights educational
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Problems plague school data system By Joe Hong CalMatters The data management system for California’s K-12 schools has been on the fritz for months after it was updated in April then rolled out with minimal testing, potentially jeopardizing school-district funding. The California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, or CALPADS, stores information for the state’s 6 million public school students. It’s how the state knows how many
students have learning disabilities, are experiencing homelessness or qualify as English learners. The California Department of Education uses this demographic data to calculate how much funding will go to the state’s more than 1,000 school districts. Districts with more high-needs students get more money based on that data. While one department official said nearly all the state’s schools will still get their full funding, the recent malfunctions have
alarmed some district officials. Earlier this year, the state’s new software update generated reams of inaccurate data about students with disabilities, disrupting standardized testing. Leading up to the new school year, districts that usually might have a few dozen initial errors were seeing thousands when their data specialists uploaded student data into the statewide system. The errors included wrong enrollment numbers, duplicate student information
Mini-dorms back on council agenda By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer The Davis City Council will consider another ordinance aimed at limiting so-called “mini-dorms” in predominately single-family neighborhoods. The council previously adopted an ordinance requiring conditional use permits to be acquired for additions, conversions or new constructions of dwellings with six or more bedrooms. On Tuesday, the council will consider an ordinance requiring the same for six or more bathrooms. According to city staff, the ordinance is a result of a recent proposal for a reconfigured residence that
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would exceed five bathrooms, though not five bedrooms. “Staff feels the configuration of the floor plan modifications would allow further subdivision of living space and bedrooms resulting in an overcrowded, small-scale dormitory-style home,” according to the report prepared for Tuesday’s meeting. “The CUP requirement has proven effective to avoid overcrowding in homes with six or more bedrooms,” the report said. “Therefore, staff feels that requiring a CUP to exceed five bathrooms would further address the issue of homes being designed to maximize rental returns.
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“These designs are often incompatible with and create impacts on single-family and two-family neighborhoods.” Approval of the proposed ordinance, staff said, “would provide for the immediate preservation of the health, safety or welfare to the city, and avoid significant irreversible change to, or loss of, neighborhood and community character.” Also on Tuesday’s council agenda: the city’s affordable housing ordinance, which is set to expire Nov. 30. City staff are recommending the council extend the sunset date of the ordinance through June 2023,
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and missing information about accommodations for students with disabilities. Administrators feared they would lose funding due to these inaccuracies. “Some districts felt at the time they were going to lose funding because of no fault of their own,”said Jeremy Davis, the assistant superintendent of innovation & instructional support at the Fullerton School District. “And it wasn’t being
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Trustees get update on Measure M progress By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer The Davis school board recognized National Hispanic Heritage Month at its meeting on Thursday, along with the usual business with various updates and approvals from the district. On top of the to-do list was an update on the bond program, which was presented by school district’s executive director of capital operations, David Burke. He covered multiple sources of funding, the history of the Measure M bond program, instances where
funds were saved as well as signature bond projects happening around the district. Burke broke down the remaining Measure M projects into three categories, which were the education program, technology and safety and security. The education-program cost stands at $40 million and includes the modernization of existing classrooms, buildings systems, energy efficiency, site utilities and infrastructure as well. In the technology category, which comes in at $15 million, the funds
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