• Homeless student counts in California are up. Some say that’s a good thing

    Carolyn Jones CalMatters In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use phrases like “struggling with stable housing” or “families in transition.” The approach seems to have worked: More families are sharing their housing status with their children’s schools, which...
  • Trump is withholding $800 million from California schools. How kids will be affected

    Tara García Mathewson & Carolyn Jones CalMatters California school districts are short hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money they had already budgeted for this year. While Congress approved the funds as part of its 2025 budget, the Trump Administration today refused to release them, sending districts across the...
  • Presupuestos escolares de CA en caos al Trump congelar la financiación federal

    El pánico se ha apoderado de los distritos escolares de todo el Estado Dorado a medida que la administración Trump continúa reteniendo fondos federales. Tony Thurmond, superintendente de Instrucción Pública del Estado, dijo que los distritos escolares de California perderán cerca de 1.000 millones de dólares. Luis Valentino, superintendente...
  • CA school budgets in disarray after Trump freezes federal funding

    Panic has set in at school districts across the Golden State as the Trump administration continues to withhold federal funds. Tony Thurmond, state superintendent of public instruction, said California school districts stand to immediately lose close to $1 billion. Luis Valentino, retired superintendent of Coachella Valley Unified School District...
  • Mercurio Retrógrado Y Otros Demonios

    Inicio esta nota con un llamado de precaución, el planeta Mercurio estará retrógrado. Ya sabemos lo que eso conlleva: retrasos de todo tipo, accidentes, discusiones, problemas con aparatos electrónicos, apagones, incendios, más inundaciones, pequeñas pérdidas, y todo tipo de inclemencias de la Madre Naturaleza. Huracanes y fuertes tormentas pueden...
  • Texas doctors leery of changes to ‘clarify’ abortion law language

    Texas lawmakers passed the Life of the Mother Act during the legislative session. It was billed as legislation to clarify when doctors in the state can legally perform an abortion. Texas adopted one of the most restrictive abortion bans in 2021. The ban allows the procedure only if the...
  • Médicos de TX desconfían de cambios para ‘aclarar’ lenguaje de Ley del aborto

    Los legisladores de Texas aprobaron la ley Life of the Mother Act durante la sesión legislativa. Se presento como una legislación para aclarar cuando los médicos del estado pueden realizar legalmente un aborto. Texas adopto una de las prohibiciones más restrictivas en 2021. La prohibición permite el procedimiento solo...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: El nuevo Papa Verde

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk El 21 de abril de 2025, el papa Francisco, conocido por su inclusividad hacia diversas comunidades de todo el mundo, falleció tras décadas de servicio como papa de la Iglesia católica. El papa León XIV fue investido poco después y, dado el enorme...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: The New Green Pope

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk On April 21, 2025, Pope Francis, known for his inclusivity to various communities worldwide, passed away after decades of serving as Pope of the Catholic church. Pope Leo XIV was inducted shortly thereafter, and with Pope Francis’s tremendous legacy of activism aiding the...
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