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Category: Children and Youth

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California Policy & Politics: A Primer

CalMatters staff by CalMatters staff January 14, 2021January 15, 2021

Download and read this 53-page overview of all the major issues facing California policymakers.

A cordoned off playground in South Central LA, on Dec. 8., 2020. Photo by Tash Kimmell for CalMatters.

Playgrounds stay open: State backtracks on outdoor play area ban

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera December 9, 2020December 9, 2020
Students register to vote outside Rancho Cucamonga City Hall during a rally against gun violence on Friday, April 20, 2018 in Rancho Cucamonga. Photo by Stan Lim, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG

Voting at 17: Ballot measure would give Latino teens biggest share in new voting rights

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
Wards from the sex offender treatment program exercise at the O.H. Close Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton on March 15, 2007. A controversial new law that takes effect next year will dismantle the state’s current juvenile justice system and transfer responsibility for convicted youth back to counties. Photo by Steve Yeater, AP Photo

Juvenile justice overhaul: How the governor’s plan shifts care of serious offenders to counties

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera October 22, 2020October 30, 2020
California has fewer children, but they face greater challenges — from poverty to COVID. Image via iStock

The hurdles facing California kids, explained

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera September 21, 2020September 25, 2020
Cigars with flavored wrappers

Goodbye ‘banana smash’ cigarillos: Governor quickly signs bill to ban flavored tobacco

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera August 28, 2020August 28, 2020
Adam Sciambi, right, and daughter Noa, 3, play with sidewalk chalk on Valencia Street in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco on July 25, 2020. Several blocks of the neighborhood are closed to vehicles every Thursday through Sunday to allow for outdoor dining and foot traffic. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Pandemic, wildfires, scorching heat: How to help our children cope

Barbara Feder Ostrov by Barbara Feder Ostrov August 20, 2020August 21, 2020
Kyla Hill, 5, left, Becky Hill, center, and Kaden Hill, 7, right, sit for a portrait at their home in Chico on July 23, 2020. Photo by Salgu Wissmath for CalMatters

Should I quit my job? California parents grapple with education in a pandemic

Ricardo CanoLauren Hepler by Ricardo Cano and Lauren Hepler July 27, 2020July 30, 2020

The virus and the vulnerable: Latino children suffer higher rates of COVID-19

Avatar by Elizabeth Aguilera July 7, 2020October 21, 2020
The Pine Grove fire camp is the last juvenile fire camp in California. Image courtesy of Fireboys documentary

Fire camps provide a great return

Avatar by Reader Reactions June 23, 2020June 24, 2020

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