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Two California nonprofits are working to make school boards more effective, diverse, and inclusive, to counter the weaponization of cultural issues that often plagues school governance. The Education Justice Academy trains school board members or candidates twice a year on how to read a budget, how state funding or...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters A medida que el mundo se adaptaba a la vida pandémica, los estudiantes que se graduaron de la escuela secundaria durante la crisis del COVID-19 comenzaron nuevos capítulos de sus vidas en aislamiento social y académico. Muchos pasaron el último año de secundaria por Zoom, sin...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started new chapters of their lives in social and academic seclusion. Many spent their senior year on Zoom, without homecomings, proms or graduations. They struggled to pass classes and...
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El hambre entre los estudiantes universitarios de California ha aumentado drásticamente desde la pandemia; sin embargo, Cal-Fresh, un programa estatal de asistencia alimentaria para personas de bajos ingresos, no llega a más del 70 % de los estudiantes elegibles. Por ello, las despensas de alimentos de las universidades están...
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Hunger among college students in California has jumped dramatically since the pandemic, yet Cal-Fresh — a statewide low-income food assistance program — fails to reach more than 70% of eligible students. So, food pantries at colleges and universities are finding creative ways to meet student needs. In the 2023-24...
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Grupos defensores de los derechos de los migrantes están considerando emprender acciones legales para restablecer una ley de Texas que permite el pago de matrículas estatales a estudiantes universitarios indocumentados. La medida se produce después de que el Departamento de Justicia demandara a Texas, y en cuestión de horas,...
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Immigrant rights groups have said they are considering legal action to restore a Texas law allowing in-state tuition rates for undocumented college students. The move comes after the Department of Justice sued Texas and within hours, state officials complied without a fight. According to the U.S. attorney general, federal...
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Un nuevo estudio muestra que la libertad de expresion esta cada vez mas amenazada en los campus universitarios, tanto por la derecha como por la izquierda. La organizacion no partidista y sin fines de lucro Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, conocida como FIRE, encuesto a 58,000 estudiantes universitarios, preguntandoles sobre...
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A new study shows free speech is increasingly under assault on college campuses from both right and left. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as FIRE, surveyed 58,000 college students, asking them about campus culture when it comes to comfort expressing ideas, tolerance for speakers, disruptive conduct,...
Two California nonprofits are working to make school boards more effective, diverse, and inclusive, to counter the weaponization of cultural issues that often plagues school governance. The Education Justice Academy trains school board members or candidates twice a year on how to read a budget, how state funding or...
Deborah Brennan CalMatters A medida que el mundo se adaptaba a la vida pandémica, los estudiantes que se graduaron de la escuela secundaria durante la crisis del COVID-19 comenzaron nuevos capítulos de sus vidas en aislamiento social y académico. Muchos pasaron el último año de secundaria por Zoom, sin...
Deborah Brennan CalMatters As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started new chapters of their lives in social and academic seclusion. Many spent their senior year on Zoom, without homecomings, proms or graduations. They struggled to pass classes and...
El hambre entre los estudiantes universitarios de California ha aumentado drásticamente desde la pandemia; sin embargo, Cal-Fresh, un programa estatal de asistencia alimentaria para personas de bajos ingresos, no llega a más del 70 % de los estudiantes elegibles. Por ello, las despensas de alimentos de las universidades están...
Hunger among college students in California has jumped dramatically since the pandemic, yet Cal-Fresh — a statewide low-income food assistance program — fails to reach more than 70% of eligible students. So, food pantries at colleges and universities are finding creative ways to meet student needs. In the 2023-24...
Grupos defensores de los derechos de los migrantes están considerando emprender acciones legales para restablecer una ley de Texas que permite el pago de matrículas estatales a estudiantes universitarios indocumentados. La medida se produce después de que el Departamento de Justicia demandara a Texas, y en cuestión de horas,...
Un nuevo estudio muestra que la libertad de expresion esta cada vez mas amenazada en los campus universitarios, tanto por la derecha como por la izquierda. La organizacion no partidista y sin fines de lucro Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, conocida como FIRE, encuesto a 58,000 estudiantes universitarios, preguntandoles sobre...
A new study shows free speech is increasingly under assault on college campuses from both right and left. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as FIRE, surveyed 58,000 college students, asking them about campus culture when it comes to comfort expressing ideas, tolerance for speakers, disruptive conduct,...