教育

新冠病毒

School closures: Has the coronavirus pandemic shut down your school?

CalMatters is tracking school closures for the coronavirus crisis. Check here for updates. 

经过 Ricardo Cano • 3 月 16, 2020

K-12 教育

School bonds usually are a cinch in California — what happened this time?

For 20 years, Californians have routinely supported school bonds. This time, up and down the ballot, the returns aren't looking so positive. 

经过 Ricardo Cano • 3 月 5, 2020

健康

California schools brace for a coronavirus disruption

Early reports indicate children infected by the coronavirus experience a milder response than older adults. But as it arrives in Northern California, school and college officials are preparing for a growing likelihood that the highly contagious virus will disrupt learning and spark panic in young people and their naturally protective caretakers.  As dorms are being […]

经过 Ricardo Cano, 费利西亚梅洛 和 伊丽莎白·阿奎莱拉 • 2 月 29, 2020

加州分水岭

Teachers notice rise in homelessness among kids

Every time Salinas third-grade teacher Maria Castellanoz gets a whiff of kerosene, it takes her right back to her childhood in a migrant labor camp. Her parents used to heat the house with the stuff, in a kerosene lamp. When it was cold, her father moved the lamp from room to room to keep his family warm. […]

经过 Kate Cimini • 2 月 21, 2020

加州分水岭

How is this poor, rural district keeping kids in school?

At a time when rural schools all over California struggle to keep students in school, a three-year-old experiment in the southern Fresno County community of Parlier is showing some interesting results. And, officials say, chronic absenteeism isn’t the only problem the Parlier experiment may eventually solve. Like many Central Valley communities, Parlier doesn’t have enough […]

经过 曼努埃拉·托比亚斯 • 2 月 19, 2020

加州分水岭

Central Valley schools aim to reduce poverty through job training

On a recent school day in Fresno, Fernando Valero repaired a 32,000-pound diesel truck with failed sensors. Then he crawled under another truck before lifting it with a floor jack. The morning school work left his hands black from grease. And his day was just getting started. After lunch, Valero left Duncan Polytechnical High School […]

经过 Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado • 2 月 7, 2020

加州分水岭

California has some of the best and worst places in U.S. for raising children, report finds

Children who grow up in the San Jose area are better off than those raised in almost any other metropolitan region in the country, according to a new report measuring which U.S. neighborhoods give children the best chance of achieving economic success and good health. Nationally, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area ranked second, just […]

经过 Erica Hellerstein • 2 月 3, 2020

加州野火

Make up school time lost to climate disasters, fire country lawmaker says

California state Sen. Bill Dodd has introduced legislation to help schools make up instructional time and state dollars lost to closures for climate-driven emergencies such as wildfires. The increasingly pressing issue was the topic of a CalMatters series last year.

经过 Ricardo Cano • 1 月 23, 2020

教育

Follow the money: Are changes coming for California’s school funding law?

A critical state audit has made oversight of spending on disadvantaged students a first order of business for California lawmakers. 

经过 Ricardo Cano • 1 月 8, 2020

重要的事情

Loss for Obamacare nationally. Health care gains in California

Obamacare grows in California but suffers a defeat nationally. Kaiser mental health workers go on strike to protest lack of resources.

经过 Dan Morain • 12 月 19, 2019