{"id":21650,"date":"2024-11-01T22:06:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/dubroff-october-surprises-add-up-for-central-coast-educators\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:47:03","slug":"dubroff-october-surprises-add-up-for-central-coast-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/fr\/dubroff-october-surprises-add-up-for-central-coast-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubroff : Les surprises du mois d'octobre s'accumulent pour les \u00e9ducateurs de la c\u00f4te centrale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cet article a \u00e9t\u00e9 initialement publi\u00e9 par le Pacific Coast Business Times.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Improving educational opportunities for Central Coast residents is\u00a0about\u00a0the only way the region will be able to cope with our sky-high housing costs.<\/p>\n

Announcements in recent weeks from Cal Poly, Cuesta College\u00a0and\u00a0the Ventura County Community Foundation point\u00a0the way\u00a0toward progress in raising skill levels from pre-school to college degrees.<\/p>\n

In one of the\u00a0biggest\u00a0awards announced this year, Cal Poly\u2019s School of Education announced $8 million in federal grants to recruit and train some 1,500 teachers.<\/p>\n

The grants focus on bilingual students, students with disabilities and closing a credential gap that sees roughly 1 in 10 teaching jobs \u201cunfilled or filled with individuals without certifications,\u201d according to data by WestEd, an organization quoted in the release announcing the big grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0really\u00a0trying to change the local educational environment in\u00a0a variety of\u00a0synergestic\u00a0ways,\u201d said Chance Hoellwarth, director of the Cal Poly school in the same release.<\/p>\n

Major\u00a0beneficiaries will be school districts in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties\u00a0as\u00a0well as\u00a0Cuesta and Allan Hancock College.<\/p>\n

Also included is outreach to the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project or MICOP, which serves large populations in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.<\/p>\n

MICOP is a twenty-three-year-old nonprofit organization that\u2019s gotten much better visibility in recent years.<\/p>\n

There are now roughly 45,000 people of Mixteco heritage in the region with\u00a0large\u00a0clusters in Oxnard and the Santa Maria Valley; they emigrated legally from Mexico seeking work on Central Coast farms as far back as the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Of the $8 million, $4.7 million will go to a program called INSPIRE to recruit and train teachers. Some\u00a0$3.3 million will train bilingual educators statewide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeking to develop a workforce that is Ready Day One,\u201d said Tina Cheuk, the Cal Poly professor\u00a0who is a\u00a0co-principal investigator of the grant.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Santa Maria, Allan Hancock College has finally achieved provisional approval from the community college Chancellor\u2019s office to offer a B.S. degree in applied professional studies.<\/p>\n

The college still needs to get final approval\u00a0but\u00a0it\u00a0is a\u00a0major\u00a0milestone in the very long quest to provide an affordable, public option for local government\u00a0workers,\u00a0agricultural\u00a0and industrial workers to get a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

Hancock President Kevin Walthers called the approval \u201ca defining moment for our college and the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

The approval\u00a0kicks open\u00a0the door for thousands of workers who have gone as far as they can in their current jobs to\u00a0getmove up to supervisory positions or otherwise qualify for higher paying jobs.<\/p>\n

The city of Santa Maria, financial institutions, manufacturers, aerospace firms\u00a0and\u00a0others have been clamoring for a lower-cost option.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0is a big break that will make North Santa Barbara County\u2019s economy much more attractive as a place to work.<\/p>\n

In Santa Paula on Oct. 19, more than 680 people\u00a0turned out\u00a0at a local elementary school\u00a0to visit\u00a048 different booths at Ventura County\u2019s inaugural Children\u2019s Festival.<\/p>\n

The event was a kickoff\u00a0of sorts\u00a0for the Isabella Project, an experimental program in early childhood education that\u2019s trying to\u00a0make sure\u00a0every child in Santa Paula has access to high-quality childcare and early education.\u00a0\u00a0First\u00a0convened by Ventura County Community Foundation, the Isabella Project now has a long list of partners\u00a0including\u00a0First Five, KidStream, the County Office of Education\u00a0and\u00a0CSU Channels Islands\u00a0just\u00a0to name a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring this festival to the people who are helping to make the dreams for our youngest Santa Paulans possible,\u201d said Dr. Gabino Aguirre, co-chair of the Isabella Project\u00a0in\u00a0a statement.<\/p>\n

Finally, a shoutout to CSU Channel Islands President Richard Yao, recipient of the Community Empowerment Corporate Award at the Ventura County NAACP\u2019s annual banquet earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Yao was cited\u00a0for improving relations between CI and several Ventura County youth organizations and local Churches.<\/p>\n

Henry Dubroff is the founder, owner<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>et<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times. He<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>can<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>be reached<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>at\u00a0hdubroff@pacbiztimes.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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