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Only 3% of the state’s homeless beds are reserved for youth, which feeds a pipeline to chronic homelessness. Most vulnerable: foster kids.

Rady Children’s Hospital announced in January that it would no longer perform gender affirming care for minors.

High school students all over California walked out of class in protest over the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement. Police in two cities, conservative Clovis and liberal Los Angeles, issued warnings about potential arrests to adults who helped them.

To understand what mass deportations are really about, we must examine the systems that have long separated families of color across the Americas.

Critical infrastructure that holds up California’s foster care system is quietly collapsing in the wake of sex abuse lawsuits, leaving children at risk.

Some of the supporters of the phonics curriculum California adopted last year are now urging statewide math screening for young students.

A nonprofit created a reader-friendly explainer of California school district ratings, a decade after the state created its confusing data dashboard.

Poor children are struggling at school because of undetected and uncorrected vision problems. Medi-Cal has been neglecting vision care.

Community schools are becoming neighborhood hubs by prioritizing academics, youth and family services, mental health and restorative justice.

Punishing all for the noncompliance of a few breeds resentment. Schools should confiscate phones from students who repeatedly offend.