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Category: California Dream

Darryl McKellar has been teaching for 20 years. “I’m like Batman,” he says. “I use every trick in my utility belt to get a kid to buy into education.” Photo by Vanessa Rancano, KQED News

Why California needs more male teachers of color

Avatar by Vanessa Rancano, KQED December 26, 2019December 26, 2019

When students of color have teachers of color, they learn more, finish high school at higher rates, and are more likely to go to college. But the number of teachers of color in California isn’t keeping pace with the diversity of its student body.

Eden Asfaha, an asylee from Eritrea, works the cashier at a Holiday Inn restaurant in San Jose. Asfaha is finishing training to be licensed as a phlebotomy technician. Photo by Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED.

‘Brain Waste’: Highly skilled immigrants struggle to fill workforce gaps

Avatar by Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED December 24, 2019December 24, 2019
Sacramento State students voting 2019 election

Goats, popcorn, politics: Youth vote mobilizes for 2020 election

Felicia Mello by Felicia Mello December 19, 2019December 19, 2019

Large Chaldean Iraqi population thrives in San Diego suburb

Avatar by Claire Trageser, KPBS December 11, 2019December 11, 2019
Dr. Moazzum Bajwa examines Cesilia Jimenez’s neck during a recent appointment at the Moreno Valley Community Health Center. Jimenez had a cancerous tumor removed from her neck several years ago after Bajwa discovered it when he was a resident doctor in training. He’s still her doctor and is now an attending physician and is curriculum director of the residency program. Photo by Elizabeth Aguilera for CalMatters

Med school free rides and loan repayments — California tries to boost its dwindling doctor supply

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera November 26, 2019January 21, 2020

Changing lives — and credit history — one micro-loan at a time

Avatar by Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

From tikka masala to Mexican BBQ, home kitchens set to expand across the state

Avatar by Scott Rodd November 5, 2019November 8, 2019
California wildfire utility blackouts PG&E and SDG&E

Is it fair to blast PG&E for not managing blackouts like SDG&E?

Avatar by Claire Trageser, KPBS October 23, 2019October 25, 2019
A Factory OS pre-fab apartment building in West Oakland. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Can factory-built apartments solve California’s housing woes?

Avatar by Matt Levin October 22, 2019October 23, 2019
Ebony Palmer and her young daughter in her apartment. Photo by Matt Tinoco/KPCC

Pilot project: Housing homeless people cuts state’s health care burden

Avatar by Matt Tinoco, KPCC October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

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