California News – 5-21-2021

California has plans for full reopening on June 15 as COVID-19 calms

  • California Officials have unveiled their most anticipated set of guidelines related to the pandemic that will lead to California’s full reopening
  • Recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will align with California’s expectations
  • Governor Gavin Newsom has stated that California’s case rates have remained stable and continue to be among the lowest in the US as vaccinations numbers are “holding pretty steady”

California’s plant to overhaul math instructions will hold back gifted students, critics say

  • California’s plan to re-imagine math instruction for 6 million California are said to accelerate achievement while making math comprehension more accessible and valuable to as many students as possible
  • The guidelines call on educators generally to keep students in the same courses until their junior year in high school where they can choose advanced subjects
  • The advanced subjects include: calculus, statistics, and other science forms
  • The commission over this project demanded that writers remove an original document that has become a problem for critics
  • The document described its goals of calling out systemic racism in mathematics and help educators create more inclusive and successful classrooms. 
  • Critics say that this document needlessly threw race into the study of math

LA County has reported 933 “breakthrough” COVID cases among 3 million vaccinated

  • Out of more than 3 million people, 933 fully vaccinated residents are testing positive for the virus
  • LA County’s public health director (Barbara Ferrer) has sad that the numbers translate to an infection rate of 0.03% among the 3.3 million
  • Among the 933 people with these cases, 71 were hospitalized and 12 had died

By K Buenavista

Mr. Buenavista is a writer that specializes in breaking down complex topics into easy to understand formats that appeal to a wide range of news seeking readers, without missing the important details. He handles a majority of the daily news reporting at Easy-Ad, and has written on many other websites. He resides in Southern California.