{"id":21058,"date":"2015-09-04T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21058"},"modified":"2015-09-04T22:58:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T05:58:57","slug":"back-to-school-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/back-to-school-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/foserv.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are roughly 10,530,000\u00a0students (approx. 27% of population) in California, according to US Census Bureau statistics.\u00a0Nearly\u00a0one-third of residents\u00a0are\u00a0involved in education as students,\u00a0teachers, professors, educators, administrators and staff. Here are some recent news items relating to California schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FOOD: Marin County\u00a0students are getting 100%\u00a0organic lunches; Rattail fish\u00a0is on the\u00a0lunch\u00a0menu in\u00a0Oakland\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Monterey schools;\u00a041 school districts statewide\u00a0now have Black Bean and California Rice Salad Shaker, hand rolled burritos and Sriracha Cheese Wrap lunch options.<\/li>\n<li>The passage of a law mandating vaccines for kids in California\u00a0created a surge\u00a0in off-campus education\u00a0which\u00a0exempts\u00a0children from 10 vaccines\u00a0required for\u00a0public school\u00a0attendance.<\/li>\n<li>California is the first in the nation to teach high schoolers about consent, violence\u00a0and\u00a0relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Cancelling the high school exit exam for the Class of 2015 has unwittingly prevented\u00a0students from graduating.<\/li>\n<li>UC Irvine (#1) and UC Davis (#2)\u00a0are the\u00a0greenest universities in the nation according to Sierra Magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Miraloma Elementary in San Francisco will offer\u00a0gender-neutral bathrooms.<\/li>\n<li>SB707 seeks to\u00a0remove concealed weapons\u00a0from\u00a0school grounds and\u00a0SB271 will\u00a0prohibit\u00a0drones flying up to 350 feet above public schools during school hours.<\/li>\n<li>Participating McDonald&#8217;s restaurants in\u00a0California offer\u00a0free\u00a0breakfast\u00a0to K-8th grade students\u00a0on\u00a0Sept. 15, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Several middle schools in Dublin and Pleasanton plan to field cricket clubs this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are roughly 10,530,000\u00a0students (approx. 27% of population) in California, according to US Census Bureau statistics.\u00a0Nearly\u00a0one-third of residents\u00a0are\u00a0involved in education as students,\u00a0teachers, professors, educators, administrators and staff. Here are some recent news items relating to California schools: FOOD: Marin County\u00a0students are getting 100%\u00a0organic lunches; Rattail fish\u00a0is on the\u00a0lunch\u00a0menu in\u00a0Oakland\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Monterey schools;\u00a041 school districts statewide\u00a0now have Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}