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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

by Elizabeth Aguilera October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

If Proposition 18 passes, California would allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries or special elections if they will be 18 by the general election.

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

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

by Elizabeth Aguilera September 21, 2020September 25, 2020

Cigars with flavored wrappers

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Reader Reactions June 23, 2020June 24, 2020

For some California teens, school closures led to work in the fields

by Elizabeth Aguilera June 22, 2020October 21, 2020

COVID and kids: A new inflammatory syndrome poses safety challenge for schools, day care

by Elizabeth Aguilera June 3, 2020June 10, 2020