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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.

In California, almost 40% of the workforce is foreign-born and more than a million parents — immigrant and otherwise — rely on child care providers so they can go to work.

Hundreds of California children are stuck in hospitals because their families wait months or years for private nursing care they’re legally entitled to.

The Inglewood that raised Mike and Joshua has been gentrified. But a cemetery preserves Mike's grave and the memories of their childhood together.

Starting in 2026, California tortillas will contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects—a change aimed at closing a gap for Latina mothers.

With suicide and violence stalking students, counselors are often the first to notice kids in trouble. They're also among the first to lose their jobs to budget cuts.