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Ricardo Cano
Ricardo Cano covers California education for CalMatters. Cano joined CalMatters in September 2018 from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, where he spent three years as the education reporter. Cano has been a finalist for three awards, a Livingston Award for Young Journalists honoring outstanding achievement by professionals under the age of 35, an Education Writers Association award for data journalism and two consecutive Arizona Press Club awards for public service journalism.
The latest by Ricardo Cano
California just pushed back school start times — you weren’t dreaming. Now what?
California kids’ test scores again rise by inches as achievement gap yawns
This week’s wildfires and blackouts have now kept nearly a quarter-million CA kids out of school
L.A.’s homeless population, voters to decide big school bond, and preventing HIV
From more sleep to less lunch stress, what ‘Governor Dad’ did this year for CA kids
What wildfire did to one California town’s schools in four years
Disaster Days: How megafires, guns and other 21st century crises are disrupting CA schools
Charter schools, unions call a truce in an epic battle as Newsom brokers a deal
Needy school districts are getting more money — but what about needy kids?
With early childhood education on CA’s agenda, preschool teachers ask why ‘cashiers at McDonalds’ get better pay
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Kamala Harris’ campaign sputtering
Newsom must stop the Westlands water grab and save the San Francisco Bay-Delta
