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California shooter ‘targeted school over ties to church’ leaving two kindergarteners, aged 5 and 6, in critical condition
1 month ago

California shooter ‘targeted school over ties to church’ leaving two kindergarteners, aged 5 and 6, in critical condition

The Independent  

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L.A. County candidates will remain defendants in former campaign volunteer’s lawsuit
3 months ago

L.A. County candidates will remain defendants in former campaign volunteer’s lawsuit

LA Times  

Two candidates from Los Angeles County running for state and local offices will remain defendants in a lawsuit alleging they are financially responsible for the sexual abuse of an underage volunteer who worked on their campaigns, a judge ruled Thursday. Judge Lee W. Tsao ruled Friday morning that the plaintiff’s attorney should have an opportunity to prove that Martinez’s alleged …

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Good salary, little to no debt: A California college guide to top-value majors
3 months, 1 week ago

Good salary, little to no debt: A California college guide to top-value majors

LA Times  

Edgar Roa was mostly raised by an immigrant mother without a high school degree, surviving on welfare benefits as his family frequently moved around Southern California in pursuit of affordable housing. As more people question the value of higher education, the report released Thursday provides clear data on how much graduates enrolled in 2,695 degree and certificate programs at 324 …

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California governor wants to restrict smartphone usage in schools
6 months, 3 weeks ago

California governor wants to restrict smartphone usage in schools

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he wants to restrict students’ usage of smartphones during the school day, citing the mental health risks of social media. “We support legislation which empowers school leaders to make policy decisions at a local level that reflect their community’s concerns and what’s necessary to support their students,” spokesperson Troy Flint …

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Teachers criticize Newsom’s budget proposal, saying it would ‘wreak havoc on funding for our schools’
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Teachers criticize Newsom’s budget proposal, saying it would ‘wreak havoc on funding for our schools’

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom has proposed a budget maneuver that the California Teachers Assn. Gavin Newsom, announcing a public campaign aimed at blocking part of his plan to balance the budget because they say it “would wreak havoc on funding for our schools.” Newsom says his plan — a complex accounting maneuver — would shield public schools from $8.8 billion in immediate …

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New Mexico to stand in for California as McConaughey stars in new movie about a 2018 deadly wildfire
7 months, 4 weeks ago

New Mexico to stand in for California as McConaughey stars in new movie about a 2018 deadly wildfire

Hindustan Times  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico is standing in for California in a new film as Jamie Lee Curtis’ production company and others tell the story of a bus driver and a school teacher who rescued students during the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history. New Mexico to stand in for California as McConaughey stars in new movie about …

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Battles over California schools’ transgender policies are raging in court. How’d we get here?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Battles over California schools’ transgender policies are raging in court. How’d we get here?

LA Times  

It’s Tuesday, April 16. Rob Bonta named their would-be state law: “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth.” Under the proposed initiative, schools in the state would be required to notify parents if their child changes their gender identification unofficially, such as in conversation with friends or teachers, or in school records, like a roll sheet. The initiative would also prohibit gender-affirming …

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California judge halts district policy requiring parents be told if kids change pronouns
1 year, 4 months ago

California judge halts district policy requiring parents be told if kids change pronouns

Associated Press  

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A judge on Wednesday halted a Southern California school district from requiring parents to be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Garza ruled after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District for adopting a policy requiring schools …

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California bill requiring schools to out transgender students to parents dies
1 year, 9 months ago

California bill requiring schools to out transgender students to parents dies

LA Times  

Assemblymember Bill Essayli in March. Assembly Bill 1314, introduced by Assemblymembers Bill Essayli and James Gallagher, would have required school districts to notify parents in writing within three days if a student “is identifying at school as a gender that does not align with the child’s sex on their birth certificate.” The bill sparked backlash from LGBTQ activists and organizations, …

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Decades after California’s affirmative action ban, legal debate stalls funding for Black students
1 year, 10 months ago

Decades after California’s affirmative action ban, legal debate stalls funding for Black students

LA Times  

Students attend the first day of school at Normont Elementary School in Harbor City in 2021. “Instead, California has become the ‘don’t say Black’ state.” At a news conference Thursday at a Sacramento area school touting education proposals including universal transitional kindergarten, Newsom said that while he is unafraid to “push the envelope,” this time is different because the conservative …

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Latino teens are deputized as health educators to sway the unvaccinated
1 year, 11 months ago

Latino teens are deputized as health educators to sway the unvaccinated

LA Times  

Melissa Lopez explains the coronavirus testing process to a taco shop employee in Fresno as part of her training as a health educator. “My family is all vaccinated now, but we learned the hard way.” Community health groups in California and across the country are training teens, many of them Latino, and deputizing them to serve as health educators at …

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California public schools allow ‘pay to learn’ summer courses at high prices. Is it legal?
2 years, 1 month ago

California public schools allow ‘pay to learn’ summer courses at high prices. Is it legal?

LA Times  

Anne Bagasao went on a payment plan so that her daughter could take U.S. history during the summer through a program offered by the South Pasadena Educational Foundation. In Arcadia last summer, students could take Algebra I or geometry for $690 or chemistry for $720 on the Arcadia High School campus through summer school offered by the Arcadia Educational Foundation, …

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Despite losing school board races, California conservatives confident in new playbook
2 years, 1 month ago

Despite losing school board races, California conservatives confident in new playbook

LA Times  

For conservatives running for school boards in California, any dream of a “red wave” proved to be a dud as Republican candidates, including a member of an extremist right-wing group, lost in most races across the state. Davis, who has railed against lessons on race and called being transgender “a social sickness,” took to Fox News last week, calling for …

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California test scores show deep pandemic drops; 2 in 3 students don’t meet math standards
2 years, 2 months ago

California test scores show deep pandemic drops; 2 in 3 students don’t meet math standards

LA Times  

Two out of 3 California students did not meet state math standards and more than half did not meet English standards on state assessments taken in the spring, reflecting sizable drops in performance compared with the year before the pandemic, when large numbers of students were already struggling to meet grade-level expectations. Eighth-graders in nearly every state and fourth-graders in …

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Proposal for student cards to cover free meals fails in California Legislature
2 years, 4 months ago

Proposal for student cards to cover free meals fails in California Legislature

LA Times  

A bill that would have granted eligible California school children an EBT card to cover meals in the summer quietly failed in the state Legislature last week. A bill that would have granted electronic benefit transfer cards to low-income schoolchildren to cover meals when class is not in session quietly failed last week in the state Legislature. Food banks across …

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Texas massacre leads Newsom, Democrats to promise fast gun control action
2 years, 7 months ago

Texas massacre leads Newsom, Democrats to promise fast gun control action

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom and top legislative Democrats pledged Wednesday to expedite legislation that would require school officials to investigate credible threats of a mass shooting, allow private citizens to sue firearm manufacturers and distributors and enact more than a dozen other policies intended to reduce gun violence in California following the violent attack on a school in Texas. When California moves, …

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California delays decision on lifting school mask mandate
2 years, 10 months ago

California delays decision on lifting school mask mandate

Associated Press  

Gavin Newsom delayed a closely watched decision on lifting California’s school mask mandate Monday, even as other Democratic governors around the country have dropped them in recent weeks. But the teachers’ stance was made clear minutes after Ghaly finished speaking, when the powerful California Teachers Association issued a statement praising the “cautious approach to masking.” “We know that masking, strong …

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As mask mandates ease, should California schools be next?
2 years, 11 months ago

As mask mandates ease, should California schools be next?

LA Times  

Third-grade students wear masks in class in August at Montara Avenue Elementary School in South Gate. The CDC “still recommends that all schools encourage students to wear well-fitting masks consistently and while indoors,” Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a radio interview. “I would still keep the mask mandate indoors, but would consider relaxing masks outdoors — if 80% of …

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California plan to require student vaccination sparks intense debate. Here’s what we know
2 years, 11 months ago

California plan to require student vaccination sparks intense debate. Here’s what we know

LA Times  

A student is vaccinated by a school nurse at Arleta High School. Senate Bill 871, by state Sen. Richard Pan, would add COVID-19 vaccinations to California’s list of required inoculations for attending K-12 schools, which can be skipped only if a student receives a rare medical exemption. Under the bill, the California Department of Public Health could mandate vaccinations in …

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Colonialism, power and race. Inside California ethnic studies classes
3 years, 2 months ago

Colonialism, power and race. Inside California ethnic studies classes

LA Times  

Huddled together, Culver City High senior Talaya Poindexter and her classmates considered the question at hand. A look inside two elective California ethnic studies classrooms at Culver City High and Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in the Los Angeles Unified School District shows teachers’ intent on creating an environment without judgment, one where students are learning as much about their …

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Parents in California protest student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, keep kids home
3 years, 2 months ago

Parents in California protest student COVID-19 vaccine mandate, keep kids home

LA Times  

Parents and students hold signs and shout at a protest Monday against the state’s pending student-vaccine mandate in front of Birmingham Community Charter High School in Lake Balboa. Groups of parents and children kept out of school in protest lined the sidewalk outside Birmingham High School in Lake Balboa on Monday, part of statewide demonstrations against California’s mandate requiring all …

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California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation
3 years, 3 months ago

California becomes first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation

LA Times  

After more than five years of intense scrutiny and effort, California on Friday became the first state to make ethnic studies a required class for high school graduation to help students understand the past and present struggles and contributions of Black, Asian, Latino, Native/Indigenous Americans and other groups that have experienced racism and marginalization in America. Medina called the new …

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For college students in California, the only common ground is uncertainty
3 years, 4 months ago

For college students in California, the only common ground is uncertainty

LA Times  

Esteban Reyes is a senior at Cal Poly Pomona. Students like Kenneth Oz of Cal State Northridge say they feel protected by their vaccine alone, and take issue with the university’s mask requirement. “I think that for a group that socializes and meets new people as much as college students, it’s important.” Only a handful of students voiced their discontent …

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Staffing shortages, exhaustion, family vacations temper big summer-school hopes
3 years, 5 months ago

Staffing shortages, exhaustion, family vacations temper big summer-school hopes

LA Times  

The message to schools from top brass, including Gov. This year, L.A. Unified and San Diego Unified, the state’s two largest school systems, opened up in-person summer programs to all students. The district typically serves 5,000 of its 98,000 students through its summer program, which in the past comprised credit recovery for high schoolers and an “extended school year” for …

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