California Department of Education

Creating safer schools! 🏫 State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and the CDE hosted a school safety webinar to share resources with local educational agencies on gun detection and mitigation, new important information on Comprehensive School Safety Plans, and data on Youth Risk Behaviors and student perceptions of school safety. Joining Thurmond for the discussion included a panel of experts in school safety from LifeSpot, CENTEGIX, Guardian Protection, and ZeroEyes, who shared their proven programs and strategies to create safer schools. Missed the event? Watch a full recording of the webinar on CDE Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gPbpFyx2

Join us tomorrow for the “Creating Safer Schools” webinar with State Superintendent Tony Thurmond. The event will feature experts in school safety who will share their proven programs and strategies to create safer schools. Register at https://lnkd.in/gXWediMQ and watch a livestream on CDE Facebook Live.

The CDE Recommended Literature List for prekindergarten through Grade 12 has been updated with new titles! 📚📕📖 Visit the searchable database for books for children and teens which helps students, teachers, and families find books that entertain, inform, and explore new ideas and experiences. The list is updated annually with the latest and best in children’s and young adult literature. Check it out today at https://lnkd.in/gupxK-2r

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond today joined Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel for a virtual press conference to voice support for a bill he co-sponsored, #AB2316 – the California School Food Safety Act. The bill is a first-in-the-nation measure that would prohibit California public schools from serving foods containing additives that have been linked to health harms in children – including cancer, harm to the immune system, neurobehavioral issues, and hyperactivity. Thurmond said #AB2316 is an important step forward to ensure that California’s schools are healthy and provide equitable learning environments for all. Together, we can make sure that our students have the healthy, nutritious meals that they need to grow and thrive.

Join State Superintendent Tony Thurmond for a webinar on a statewide effort to accelerate housing development by utilizing the significant amount of developable land owned by California’s local education agencies. 🏘️ 📅: 8/14 🕥: 10:30 a.m. 📌 Register at bit.ly/HousingSummitAug24

Register today for this Thursday’s “Creating Safer Schools” webinar with State Superintendent Tony Thurmond! 📅: 8/8 🕚: 11 a.m. ⚠️: Reviewing the Comprehensive Safe School Plan and additional school safety resources to safeguard students and staff. Participants will also hear from companies that offer gun detection technology. 🔗: https://lnkd.in/gXWediMQ and watch a livestream on CDE Facebook Live.

Welcome #BacktoSchool! As California schools are coming back to session, the CDE sends best wishes to students, educators, and school staff for a great start to the 2024-25 school year! 🎒🚌🏫

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Launches Statewide Housing Plan 🏠, Register for Creating Safer Schools Webinar 🏫🖥️, and More in This Week’s Issue of CDE Today. To subscribe, visit https://lnkd.in/ggD8R8U7.

Please join the CDE’s Office of School-Based Health Programs for a webinar on August 13 that will focus on providing information to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools on California Education Code requirements for return to school, and resources to support the transition to the 2024-25 school year. We will focus on our school communities' physical, mental, and social well-being. Directors of student support services and directors of curriculum and instruction, principals, educators, school social workers, and school counselors, are encouraged to attend. Register today at https://lnkd.in/gPxEyu5t

https://lnkd.in/gRmxhXfe Job Description and Duties: The California Department of Education (CDE), under direction from the Director, the Associate Director of the Special Education Division includes the Administrative Services Unit, the Complaint Resolution Unit, the Complaint Services Unit, the Complaint Investigation Unit I, and the Complaint Investigation Unit II, Fiscal Payments I Unit, Fiscal Payments II Unit, Nonpublic Schools Unit, Nonpublic Agencies Unit, Programs and Partnerships Unit, and Statewide Policy and Implementation Unit. The Office of Complaint Resolution and Statewide Programs has responsibility for fiscal policy, assessment and evaluation of data and reports, policy development and oversight of non-public schools servicing special education students, development of processes to address parental concerns and complaints, and program integrity. Plans, organizes, and directs the work in the Special Education Divisions Office of Complaint Resolution and Statewide Programs; directly supervises Education Administrators and Staff Services Manager I/II over Administrative Services Unit, the Complaint Resolution Unit, the Complaint Services Unit, the Complaint Investigation Unit I, Complaint Investigation Unit II, Fiscal Payments I Unit, Fiscal Payments II Unit, Nonpublic Schools Unit, Nonpublic Agencies Unit, Programs and Partnerships Unit, and Statewide Policy and Implementation Unit. Assists the Director with policy development and implementation to ensure children from birth through age twenty-two with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment as mandated in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, with emphasis on fiscal and administrative policy. Provides vision, leadership, technical assistance, and direction, in alignment with the Director’s findings, in the development, implementation, and promulgation of departmental and statewide policies and regulations regarding needs of California’s students and educators. Facilitates the determination of strategies for special education program policy development for California’s pre-K-12 public education system, especially pertaining to administration at the State level, by coordinating and administrating stakeholder groups such as the Improving Special Education Services Committee. Provides key guidance and direction, in concert with the Director, in determining legislative priorities and strategic assessment of federal and state legislation to influence positive policy direction for CDE. Serves as the primary representative to state-level control agencies; works cooperatively with CDE staff, staff of other state agencies that provide assistance to children.