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SACRAMENTO – Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. this week announced the appointments of Assembly Speaker Emeritus John A. Pérez and Long Beach City College Superintendent-President Eloy Ortiz Oakley to the University of California Board of Regents.
“John and Eloy bring a wealth of experience and an extraordinary capacity to dig into the complexities of our great university system,” said Gov. Brown. “Their work has demonstrated a deep commitment to the students of California.”
John A. Pérez, 45, has served as a member of the California State Assembly since 2008 and was elected speaker in 2010, marking the first time in American history an openly gay man was ever elected to serve in that position.
As speaker, Pérez’s collaborative efforts with the governor and his colleagues helped eliminate the structural deficit, balance California’s revenues and expenditures and produce a strong but modest multi-billion dollar reserve.
Pérez has been a longtime advocate for affordable higher education and authored the Middle Class Scholarship Act, signed in 2013, to significantly reduce student fees for middle class students at the University of California and California State University whose families earn too much to qualify for significant financial aid but not enough to afford college without significant student loan debt.
Pérez is a member of the Democratic National Committee and served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Pérez was a member of the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles and the California League of Conservation Voters Board of Directors and was elected by his fellow Speakers from across the country to serve as president of the National Speakers Conference.
Eloy Ortiz Oakley, 49, of Long Beach, has been the superintendent and president of Long Beach City College since 2007, where he was executive vice president of administrative services from 2004 to 2006 and was vice president of administrative services from 2002 to 2004.
He was vice president of college services at Oxnard College from 2001 to 2002 and an assistant vice president at Keenan and Associates from 1999 to 2001.
Oakley was a program coordinator and adjunct instructor at Golden West College from 1994 to 1999 and was a manager of risk services at Coast Community College District from 1993 to 1999.
He is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Council of La Raza. Oakley is a board member of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, the American Association of Community Colleges and the St. Mary’s Medical Center.
He earned a master of business administration degree from the University of California, Irvine.
These positions require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation.
Both Pérez and Oakley are Democrats.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Soroptimist International of Clear Lake's Live Your Dream Education and Training Awards program is now accepting applications.
The deadline to apply is Dec. 1.
Three awards totaling $4,000 will be available to women who are head of household entering college and vocational training programs in 2015.
Soroptimist is an organization that raises funds to help girls and women in Lake County as well as internationally.
For more information contact Kathy Freeborn at 707-994-3509.
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SACRAMENTO – The California Community Colleges Board of Governors elected Geoffrey L. Baum to serve as president and Cecilia V. Estolano to serve as vice president for the 2015 calendar term during its meeting Monday.
The board, appointed by the governor, nominates and elects its president and vice president each November.
The chosen officials serve for a one-year term.
Baum, of Pasadena, is currently serving as vice president and has been on the board since 2008. He is a member and past president of the governing board of the Pasadena Area Community College District.
He works at the University of Southern California, where he serves as managing director of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and previously as assistant dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He also serves as director of communications and public affairs for the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.
Baum previously worked for C-SPAN as an executive producer and was an assistant vice president of Claremont McKenna College. He has been a high school English teacher and a journalist for ABC News, public radio’s Marketplace, and the Army, Navy, and Air Force Times. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College.
“These are both challenging times and an era of unlimited possibility for the California Community Colleges and their vital mission to achieve success, increase access, and help prepare each student for the workforce in our global economy," said Baum. "It is a tremendous honor to be elected president of the Board of Governors. I look forward to working with my colleagues on the board and the chancellor, in partnership with the governor and the Legislature, to keep this outstanding system at the forefront of public higher education in the country.”
Estolano, also of Pasadena, was appointed to serve on the board in 2014. She is co-founder of Estolano LeSar Perez Advisors LLC, which provides consulting services to public agencies, foundations, business associations, and other stakeholders seeking to grow vibrant communities.
She previously served as chief executive officer of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA). Under her tenure, CRA/LA was the largest redevelopment agency in California, with an annual budget of more than $726 million and a work program covering 32 project areas.
Estolano rebuilt its housing department, shepherded CRA/LA’s adoption of landmark policies on local hiring in construction jobs and the promotion of Healthy Neighborhoods, and created a $42 million land acquisition fund to jumpstart development in underserved markets.
She conceived of Los Angeles’ CleanTech Corridor and was an early driver behind the creation of Clean Tech Los Angeles and the Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator.
Prior to joining CRA/LA, Estolano was of counsel at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher. Estolano’s career also includes service on the California Coastal Commission, as a special assistant Los Angeles city attorney, as a senior policy advisor with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as an environmental policy advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Estolano is a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law and holds a master’s in urban planning from UCLA. She received her undergraduate degree in social studies with honors from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges.
“Serving on the board has been a rewarding experience,” said Estolano. “I am privileged to work alongside a group of individuals whose top concern is supporting the students, faculty, staff, and administrators. The California Community Colleges is working to improve California’s economic fortunes and taking bold steps to provide more and more Californians with higher education. I thank the board for entrusting me with this position and will work closely with Chancellor Harris to advance the board’s agenda for the California Community Colleges.”
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 112 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year. Community colleges supply workforce training, basic skills education and prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions.
The Chancellor’s Office provides leadership, advocacy and support under the direction of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
For more information about the community colleges, visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/ .
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Hello again readers, and welcome back to the Carlé Chronicle, your primary news source for all things Carlé High School.
Carlé’s student of the week last week was Kim Nelson, a hardworking student who is always willing to take time to help out around the campus.
We’d like to welcome four new students to our school: Candice Saferino, Bryan Prothro, Kenneth Martinez-Meth and Rebecca Ford. Each of these students brings something new to the school, and we can’t wait to help them reach their goals and graduate.
Carlé’s student designers have been busy with a holiday bookmark project, which is aimed at all our students and adults who have given their support to our school.
Here in Lake County many have struggles, particularly around the holidays, and many people come from backgrounds where fortune doesn’t always favor them.
As a way to give something back to so many great souls in our school community, our 15 designers are designing personalized bookmarks for more than 100 different staff and students. We wish them happy holidays and wish them the best in life.
Here at Carlé High School, many of our core classes are also currently engaged in a number of exciting projects.
Robin Shrive’s primary English classes have been reading the best-selling novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee.
The book has been a great success, with students focused on creative arguments and sharing their own varied opinions on different issues, in both their own writing and during classroom debates.
In her other English classes, students are focused on common core work, reviewing things such as the issue of sugar taxes and bans on many different products.
In our civics class, lead by Alan Siegel, after an essay test rewriting, explaining and discussing key paragraphs from the Declaration of Independence, we have been watching the movie 1776, which shows many of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and showing the different perspectives and issues each of the founding fathers faced.
We’ve tackled many different issues in our notebooks, including the impact of wars, citizens’ natural rights, and determining the balance between liberty and safety.
In history we are mired in the trenches of World War I and have been analyzing primary source posters from the different countries engaged.
In Angie Siegel’s environmental tech science class, we have spent the past few weeks on a project called environmental detectives, in which our students are tasked with investigating the fictional gray area to find out why fish are mysteriously dying and washing up on the shores of the Gray Bay.
As more and more details are revealed, students must use the given data and their own problem solving skills to find out who and what is most responsible for the impact on the environment.
Select board members and other leaders from the district have come together for the District Site Leadership Team, or DSLT, in which participating members help to evaluate the district and what works best for the Konocti Unified School District.
Their last two meetings involved the LCAP, which will review key district standards and see what needs to be changed to keep the school system working well and help to continue and advance the pursuit of knowledge further.
Finally, we’d like to bid a fond farewell to Konocti Unified Board member Anita Gordon, who is retiring this year.
Anita has worked for the KUSD school board for many years and has given many great contributions to the district. We wish her the best of luck in the future!
Charles Warren is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.