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Good morning, California. It’s Friday, October 15. Burnout + deadlines converge Employee burnout and resistance to vaccine mandates are colliding across California, leading to strike authorizations, walkouts and worker shortfalls in health care, education, transportation and logistics, hospitality, retail, entertainment and law enforcement. This week, nearly a third of California hospitals reported critical staffing shortages […]

While Gov. Newsom brags about students returning to classrooms, an EdSource report found many districts are experiencing a massive uptick in chronic absenteeism.

California needs to reexamine policies that prevent retired teachers from returning as substitutes within their first six months of retirement.

Long underpaid and underappreciated, substitute teachers are key to keeping schools open this year. But a shortage of subs has created another layer of chaos to this pandemic school year.

California's six million public school students have been used and abused during the COVID-19 pandemic.

California Republican Party delegates decide not to endorse any single candidate in the recall election, after all.

Even as the delta variant causes spikes in COVID-19 case numbers just weeks before the new school year, state lawmakers have yet to issue a vaccine mandate for public school teachers.

The massive influx of one-time federal aid should be used to make up for lost learning time and emotional setbacks students experienced when schools were closed during the pandemic.

California schools could be facing the largest number of teacher retirements ever, but factors like enrollment drops should take the sting out of it.

Las escuelas de California podrían estar enfrentando la mayor cantidad de jubilaciones de maestros en la historia, pero factores como las caídas de inscripciones deberían aliviarlo.