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As Russia prepares to invade Ukraine (or maybe is already doing so), I wanted to share this message and request from Rabbi Avraham Wolf, Chief Rabbi of Odessa & Southern Ukraine. It’s from a few days ago and I’m not sure if there have been any updates but it just feels really important to signal boost this:

“The Jewish community in the Ukraine is in need of your assistance during these dire times. As the threat of war intensifies, Mishpacha Chabad Odessa is preparing to support the hundreds of Jews who are unable to evacuate the country including orphans, students, and Holocaust survivors. Preparations are also underway to absorb Jewish refugees from the surrounding regions of Kharkiv, Kiev, and Dnieper.

$300,000 in donations are urgently needed to purchase medical gear, protective equipment, and basic necessities such as clothes and sleeping bags. Money is also needed to help stock emergency shelters with several tons of cereal, buckwheat, sugar, rice, flour and other non-perishable staples. These donations will also help defray the costs of additional security personnel arriving from Israel to help protect the Jewish community.

Your generous donation will help ensure that the Jewish community of Odessa is prepared for all eventualities and is able to provide security, shelter, and food for everyone in need during this dangerous time. $130,000 has already been spent in food alone – but much more is still needed.”

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This poster presents the background of public policies in Colombia related to teaching English as a foreign language and the goals proposed in each one. Subsequently, the results obtained by secondary students and the factors that have made the language acquisition process difficult are emphasized.

Photo: Santa Ana Unified

Santa Ana Unified opened Learning Labs, in-person support for high-needs students like English learners.

April 13, 2021

Students who are learning English as a second language have priority to return to in-person class at some school districts in California, but many are still staying home because their parents fear the risk of Covid-19 infection is too high.

For English learners, live instruction and small groups can offer more opportunities to practice English, a critical part of learning the language. Teachers have tried to maintain the additional communication that English learners most often benefit from — speaking and interacting with peers and teachers — in order to help them learn to speak, read and write fluently. But it remains a difficult task to virtually recreate the level of support that English learners need as they learn a new language.

More than a year into distance learning, school officials and researchers fear that English learners are among the students experiencing the highest levels of learning loss. A recent report from Policy Analysis for California Education, a Stanford University-based research organization, compared assessment results between fall 2019 and fall 2020 and found that English learners and low-income students in California “are falling behind more compared to others.”

“Average learning loss estimates mask the reality that some students in California are suffering much more during this time than are others,” the report’s authors concluded. “Without aggressive and bold actions, these students may never catch up; any funding or support designed to mitigate learning loss must be targeted specifically to the students who need it most.”

To help support English learners, the state named them one of the groups of students school districts must prioritize for in-person learning. They also included students who are homeless, in foster care or who have been chronically absent from online class.

In some districts, English learners are among the only students in middle and high school allowed to return to school. In others, English learners were able to come to school for supervised distance learning from a classroom before many other students returned to school.

Still, many families contacted by EdSource are choosing to keep their students at home for the remainder of the school year because they fear infection, even as they gain access to vaccines that protect against Covid-19 infections.

In California, low-income, Latino and immigrant communities have been hard-hit by infections and deaths related to Covid-19. During the last half of 2020, Covid-19 deaths among Latinos were up to eight times higher than among non-Hispanic whites, according to a study by UCLA’s Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture.

In Los Angeles County, the number of daily Covid-19 deaths among Latinos in November was 3.5 per 100,000 Latino residents. By the end of January, that number had risen to 40 deaths every day per 100,000 Latino residents, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“That’s an increase of over 1,000%,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a press briefing at the time.

In Oakland Unified School District, where English learners comprise 31% of the district’s student population, all students from transitional kindergarten to 6th grade have the option to come back for a few hours of in-person instruction a couple of days a week. However, English learners can come back even if they are in middle or high school.

Still, about half of English learners in elementary school remain in distance learning, according to Nicole Knight, executive director of English Language Learner and Multilingual Achievement at Oakland Unified. About half of the students are also opting out of in-person learning at Oakland International High School, where all students are newcomers who recently arrived from another country.

“We are maintaining the distance learning program to the greatest extent possible, in great part because we have these large groups” opting out of in-person learning, Knight said.

Maria Jimenez isn’t planning on sending any of her six children, ages 5 to 17, back to in-person classes at Oakland Unified. The youngest, a kindergartner, is still learning English.

“It’s too much of a risk, and they only get two hours a day for one more month of school before the year ends,” said Jimenez, whose husband is currently unemployed and cares for the children during the day.

Students enrolled at Baldwin Park Unified School District in Los Angeles County’s San Gabriel Valley will begin returning to their classrooms this month, and English learners are one group of students that will be offered additional in-person support. But Charlene Fried, who teaches high school students who are learning English as a second language at Sierra Vista High School in the district, said many have indicated they will not return to their classrooms.

“I would imagine that most of the kids are going to remain in distance learning,” she said. “When I talked to my kids, they all said, ‘We want to be back; we miss you.’ But now they’re saying, ‘Our parents are afraid for us.’”

Fried said she has seen the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on immigrant households because many of her students have had grandparents or other family members who got sick.

“A lot of my students live with multiple generations, so we have to deal with this every single day,” Fried said.

Despite the challenges of distance learning, Fried says her students are eager to learn and are progressing in their language skills. Some of her students have returned to their native countries, such as Mexico and El Salvador, but still attend class virtually every day.

Los Angeles Unified, which has over 120,000 English learners — the largest number of English learners among California school districts — offered in-person, one-on-one tutoring for English learners for a short period of time during the fall semester. Shortly after, rising Covid-19 transmission rates shut down all in-person activities across the district.

Despite the closures, English learners continue to be prioritized for additional academic support, said Lydia Acosta Stephens, executive director of Los Angeles Unified’s Multilingual and Multicultural Education Department.

“Learning English while learning to read and while learning content… it is a completely different demand for an English learner than it is for let’s say an English-only child who already speaks English,” Acosta Stephens said. “So the need that an English learner has to do all of these things simultaneously requires that we have additional support services for those students who may not be making progress.”

Since February, the district has offered additional instruction time for English learners as they prepare to take their yearly English language assessment, known as the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California. This additional support has been held entirely online, but it will be moved to in-person as Los Angeles Unified schools slowly reopen throughout the month of April.

Each school decides the type of support to offer, depending on students’ needs. That can include one-on-one tutoring or small group instruction, which is provided after school or on Saturdays.

“Each school determines based on the number of English learners and the need. Is it small group, or do we need to pivot and provide one-to-one?” Acosta Stephens said.

So far, however, it’s unclear how many English learners will actually join in person. The latest results from the district’s ongoing reopening survey show that 35% of middle school students and 25% of high school students whose families have responded to the survey will return to their classrooms. The results do not provide a breakdown of student demographics that would indicate how many of those students are English learners.

If all remaining families who have not responded to the survey choose to stay online, only 24% of middle school students and 16% of high school students will return to their classrooms in person.

In November, Santa Ana Unified School District in Orange County launched Learning Labs, which are in-person small groups with priority granted to English learners, foster youth, students with disabilities and other students in need of additional support.

The program was temporarily shut down by the end of the year as Covid-19 rates rose in Santa Ana, which is predominantly an immigrant and working-class community, but has since reopened and expanded to more schools in the district.

It will remain the only in-person option available to students until the summer. Santa Ana Unified is the only district in Orange County that will remain online for the entirety of the current spring semester. Among the county’s districts, Santa Ana has been the hardest-hit by Covid-19.

Even as rates of Covid-19 decrease and vaccination rates increase in California, parents remain wary of sending their children back to classrooms.

Mireya Pacheco’s 6th-grade daughter is an English learner at Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District, in Los Angeles County’s San Fernando Valley. She attends in-person sessions for support and tutoring one day a week for 45 minutes in a small group for English learners with only two other students. However, Pacheco is not ready to send all of her children back to school in larger groups or for longer periods per day.

“I’m afraid they will get infected. I’ve heard stories of infection, and I have friends who were sick, and a family member in Mexico died of Covid,” Pacheco said. She said that growing access to Covid-19 vaccines does not change how she feels about in-person learning. “So for the time being, I’ve decided not to send them back to school until next school year.”

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Betty Márquez Rosales is based in Los Angeles and covers various topics, including the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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Making droplets levitate can also make them antisocial. When two different liquids are placed on a hot enough surface, they will levitate and bounce off one another, even when they would typically mix together easily, in what researchers have named the triple Leidenfrost effect.

The Leidenfrost effect occurs when droplets of a liquid skitter across a hot surface on cushions of steam instead of simply flowing together and remaining in one place. René Ledesma-Alonso at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Mexico and his colleagues found that these vapour cushions, called Leidenfrost layers, can also form between different liquids on hot surfaces.

“It was, like many new findings, a mistake in the lab,” says Ledesma-Alonso. “Felipe [Pacheco-Vásquez, one of the researchers] was working with some students in the lab, and one of the students poured some ethanol in the same plate as the other student was pouring water.”

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The regular Leidenfrost effect happens because of the temperature of the surface being far hotter than the boiling temperature of the liquid, so the edges of the liquid boil and create Leidenfrost layers. When two liquid droplets on the same surface have different boiling points, the hotter liquid can also heat up the edge of the cooler liquid, creating an additional Leidenfrost layer that makes the droplets bounce off one another.

The researchers tested this with 11 different liquids, which they placed on a heated aluminium surface and filmed with a high-speed camera. When the liquids had different boiling points, they bounced off one another until the cooler droplet became too small to create a cushion of vapour. Then they merged.

The bouncing lasted anywhere from several seconds to a few minutes, depending on the speed of evaporation of the cooler droplets. “There is a size limit, but not a time limit,” says Ledesma-Alonso. “It’s going to be difficult because the droplets will be bouncing the whole time, but if you can keep replenishing the droplets they could bounce forever.”

Journal reference: Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.204501

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Albuquerque, New Mexico native Jordan Pacheco grew up rooting for his hometown University of New Mexico Lobos. His love was mainly focused on the school’s basketball teams and attending home games in their legendary arena, The Pit.

Pacheco’s athletic skills though geared him more towards baseball, and the two-way star had top college programs from around the country calling to woo him away from his home state. The only problem was for Pacheco, those schools were calling about his arm, and not his bat.

“They just wanted me to pitch,” said Pacheco. “I wanted to play, I wanted to hit—UNM was literally the only one that was going to let me do that, so it made my choice pretty easy.”

Letting Pacheco swing it proved to be a wise decision for both player and university. He hit .408 as a freshman and would go on to become one of the greatest players in program history, capping his run with the Lobos by winning Mountain West Conference Player of the Year in 2007. The bat-first second baseman was then selected by the Rockies in the 9th round of the 2007 draft.

After a solid professional debut after signing, Pacheco seemed ticketed to begin his first full professional season in Low-A. However, on the last day of spring training 2008, a spring in which he’d played all around the infield, Pacheco was directed to the office of then-VP of Scouting Bill Schmidt.

“Sat me down and said ‘you’re going to be a catcher,'” said Pacheco. “I said ‘Do I have a choice?’ and he said ‘Nope, you’re going to stay here and be a catcher.”

Pacheco was held back in extended spring training to begin learning how to catch, a position he detested from the get-go. A brutal summer in the short-season Northwest League ensued, as Pacheco and catching mixed like oil and water.

“The glimmer of hope was the last game of the season when I put all of my catchers gear in a trash can and I lit it on fire in the outfield,” said Pacheco. “That was my highlight of my season.”

Despite the grandiose gesture, Colorado wasn’t done with Pacheco behind the dish. He had to secure new gear for that fall’s instructs, and in grappling with how he was going to make it to the big leagues realized he needed to secure a new outlook on catching as well.

“Eventually something kinda clicked and I was like ‘Ok, I’ve gotta do this, I’ve gotta go for it,” said Pacheco. “I got with our catching coordinator for a couple offseasons and said ‘Hey man, I need to get better, what can I do?'”

Towards the end of the 2011 Triple-A season in which he’d hit .278 catching for Colorado Springs, Pacheco got the call every player dreams of. He was heading to the big leagues—but starting at 3rd base, a position he’d played sparingly on his climb through the minors.

Thus began the super-utility phase of Pacheco’s career—slotting in at whatever defensive position the Rockies needed at the time. During his six years in the big leagues Pacheco saw time at catcher, all infield spots aside from shortstop, and left field.

Aside from his 2012 rookie season, in which he’d hit .309, none of Pacheco’s career in the big leagues featured consistent playing time. Moving around spots and irregular at-bats eventually eroded his offensive impact, eventually leading to being designated for assignment by the Rockies in 2014.

Stints with Arizona and Cincinnati followed, but Pacheco found himself headed back down the professional baseball ladder—a much different experience than his time as a prospect.

“It was a real ego-check for me, and once I was able to put that aside and get rid of that ego, man I enjoyed Triple-A baseball the last few times I got to play it,” said Pacheco. “I enjoyed the guys, just enjoyed being at the baseball field and helping guys out, just watching them get called up—I actually got to feel a part of that.”

Pacheco finished up his career with 39 games in the Atlantic League during the 2021 season, and will begin a coaching career in 2022, bringing everything full circle back to Albuquerque as the hitting coach for the Triple-A Isotopes.

On the latest episode of ‘From Phenom to the Farm’ former big league catcher and 2007 Mountain West Conference Player of the Year Jordan Pacheco joins. He talks playing college ball in his hometown, the difficult conversion to catching as a pro, and what a good hitting coach can bring to a ballclub.

In a city trying to clean up the taint of corruption growing out of its embrace of the cannabis industry, Baldwin Park is defending its decision to hire an assistant city attorney who previously secured one of the city’s first cannabis permits for a company owned by his father and law partner.

Tier One Consulting, whose only regular employees were Anthony Willoughby II and his father, was later sold for an undisclosed amount to a third party that still operates in the city under the Tier One name, according to the city and Willoughby II. Last year, Baldwin Park’s city attorney, Robert Tafoya, hired Willoughby II to serve as a contracted assistant city attorney, where he now works on cannabis-related matters from the other side of the table.

Attorney David Torres-Siegrist, who represents four other cannabis operators, has raised concerns about Willoughby II’s ties to the cannabis industry because the new role includes ensuring cannabis companies are in compliance with their agreements with the city.

“His mere presence in the compliance hearings shows how unfair this whole process is with respect to cannabis in Baldwin Park,” Torres-Siegrist said. Willoughby II should not be involved with the cannabis regulations if he previously received a permit from the city, Torres-Siegrist argues.

In an interview, Willoughby II denies any conflict exists, saying he never had a stake in Tier One and does not have any connections to the new owners. He recuses himself from matters involving the company.

“I try to have zero contact with anything remotely related to them,” Willoughby II said. “If a document might include their name, I require it to be redacted before its sent over. I avoid everything.”

Tafoya, the city attorney, alleges Torres-Siegrist is only raising this and other concerns about the permitting process now because his clients were called into compliance hearings recently for not paying their bills. The clients collectively owe more than $1.5 million in fees to Baldwin Park.

“None of these complaints were made by Mr. Siegrist or his clients until after the city asked his clients to pay their fees,” Tafoya said in an email.

Torres-Siegrist, however, says the irregularities he has complained about were not known to him nor his clients until recently.

Tafoya stated he checked that Willoughby II no longer had any involvement or interest in any Baldwin Park cannabis business before hiring him as a contractor.

“Mr. Willoughby has never worked for the city or Tafoya Law Group while involved in any cannabis business in Baldwin Park,” Tafoya wrote. “Tier One was sold and permit transferred in April 2019 and WIlloughby did not start working for the city until 2020.”

In the email, Tafoya said he did not “have any information” about Willoughby II’s current law firm and that he “had no idea what else he does.” He denied having any prior relationship with the Willoughby family. He did not respond to a series of follow-up questions.

Law firm has ties to cannabis probe

Willoughby II is a managing attorney at Willoughby and Associates, a firm run by his father, Anthony Willoughby Sr. The firm does not take any cases involving or related to Baldwin Park to avoid the possibility of conflicts, Willoughby II said.

The firm, however, is indirectly connected to Baldwin Park through a different client. Willoughby Sr. is the personal attorney of Compton Councilman Isaac Galvan.

In November, Galvan and Tafoya, along with former San Bernardino County Planning Commissioner Gabriel Chavez, were raided by the FBI in November as part of a cannabis-related corruption probe. No one has been arrested and no allegations have been made public.

While Willoughby and Associates represents Galvan in other matters, it is not representing him in the federal case, Willoughby II said. Willoughby and Associates is not involved in the investigation and was not raided, he said.

Baldwin Park’s rollout of cannabis has been plagued with allegations of corruption. In a sworn deposition last year, a former police lieutenant stated he received complaints from at least three cannabis operators, including an allegation that an operator was asked to pay $250,000 in a brown paper bag to a city official.

Last year, former Baldwin Park Councilman Ricardo Pacheco pleaded guilty to accepting $37,900 in bribes from a police officers association. The plea agreement, however, which is partially under seal and heavily redacted, states the FBI took $302,900 from Pacheco, reportedly all from soliciting bribes. The lack of information about the other bribes has led some, like Torres-Siegrist, to question whether Pacheco received any money from cannabis businesses as well.

Pacheco is represented by Glen Jonas, an attorney previously hired as special counsel by Baldwin Park. He has not worked in the city since 2018, according to Tafoya.

Outside investigation needed

Laurie Levenson, a professor of law and expert on legal ethics at Loyola Law School, said she could not say if there was a conflict with Baldwin Park’s hiring of Willoughby II, but the connections between the various parties and the cannabis industry is “problematic at minimum.”

“It at least raises questions that need to be answered,” she said. The city should hire an outside investigator to conduct a review, she added.

In an interview, Baldwin Park Mayor Emmanuel Estrada, who was elected in November, said the new City Council is committed to cleaning up the city’s image.

“If there is something questionable there, we’re going to investigate it and we’re going to take action on it,” he said.

What happened to the permit?

Public records list “Anthony Willoughby” as the lead negotiator for Tier One throughout the permitting process in 2017 and 2018. Baldwin Park CEO Shannon Yauchzee and Tafoya represented the city on the other side of those negotiations. At the time, Willoughby II was listed as Tier One’s principal and signed the documents as the vice president, records showed.

Despite the titles, Willoughby II says he was only an employee with no ownership stake.

Tier One’s address at the time was the same as that of Willoughby and Associates. The company’s original application described its structure simply as “a corporation with officers and staff.” Willoughby II, however, said the company was essentially just him and his father, with some assistance from a third individual whose name he said he could not remember.

In 2019, Baldwin Park amended the development agreement to change the address and the owner associated with Tier One’s permits for cultivation and manufacturing. The new agreement and application were signed by David Ju and listed the owner as DJCBP Corp. The filings state DJCBP Corp. would do business as Tier One Consulting. The original business license for Tier One is now suspended by the California Franchise Tax Board.

A summary of past due payments released by the city in March showed DJCBP Corp., as Tier One, owed $318,750 to the city. In his email, Tafoya said Tier One did not exist and did not owe the city money.

In an interview, Willoughby II said his involvement with Tier One ended once the sale closed and that he had no relationship with DJCBP or Ju before or after the transaction. Willoughby Sr., as Tier One’s owner, received the entirety of the proceeds. Willoughby II said he does not know how much his father made, but that he received no compensation from the deal.

Willoughby II did not know why DJCBP Corp. chose to continue using Tier One’s name. Ju could not be reached for comment.

“We never operated. We bowed out almost immediately, didn’t want anything to do with it,” Willoughby II said. He said he did not know why his father decided to sell.

Willoughby Sr. could not be reached for comment. His son said he is on vacation.

Families have history

Both Willoughby Sr. and Tafoya have donated to Galvan’s campaigns in the past, according to public records.

Other connections exist between Baldwin Park and Compton. Compton, for example, hired Tafoya’s wife, Leslie Tafoya, in 2017 as an administrative analyst. In an email, Tafoya said his wife applied for the job like everyone else and ranked No. 1 on the written test.

“No council member was involved in her hiring,” Tafoya wrote.

Emails released in a public records request showed former City Manager Cecil Rhambo asked a human resources employee to connect with Leslie Tafoya to start the hiring process for her to become a council liaison for Galvan. The employee responded that he had sent her an application and could begin the process once she completed it. Galvan was copied on both emails. It’s unclear if she received that job, however.

Public payroll records show she was paid as an “administrative analyst” in 2017 and had the same title in 2019.

Asked about this, Tafoya did not respond. In an email, Tafoya stated he did not have any connections to the Willoughby family, but he did not respond to the same question about his relationship to Galvan.