In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.
National Education Association leader Becky Pringle says her union is preparing to fight for “our students, our public schools and, honestly, our democracy.”
Taking the time to find out what California’s hurting immigrant children need.
Deluge of outside funds signals a national strategy for replacing elected officials.
Other districts may well be watching — and wondering how soon they can enact a similar policy.
The nation’s second-largest school district will only tell parents if their kids are considered “close contacts” of infected classmates.
Amid rising infection rates and changing state and federal guidelines, districts are struggling to navigate the reopening of schools.
As summer rolls on, some are predicting kids will be vectors for new, more contagious COVID strains.
Kids are more susceptible to new coronavirus strains, leading some experts to rethink their stance on reopening classrooms.
When a student doesn’t have enough money for lunch, cafeteria staff in many school districts take away the child’s tray of hot food and hand the student a brown paper bag containing a cold cheese sandwich and a small milk.
UCLA’s John Rogers on the Struggle for Democratic School Improvement.