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Alexei Koseff CalMatters Three years ago, advocates for reducing smoking and vaping in California won a major victory when they persuaded the state Legislature to adopt a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products despite an intense industry lobbying campaign. But in recent months, those same groups have been largely...
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Groups fighting for Palestinian rights are praising a new fact sheet on religious discrimination from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, because of what it left out. The document does not include a definition of antisemitism written by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Former President Donald Trump issued an executive order in...
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Cuando Laura Swartzen vio el correo electrónico de la oficina del Título IX de la Universidad Estatal de Sacramento, sintió que su corazón dio un brinco. Swartzen, el defensor confidencial del campus de Sac State, había pasado los últimos nueve meses apoyando a un estudiante que denunció haber sido...
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When Laura Swartzen saw the email from Sacramento State University’s Title IX office, it felt like her heart skipped a beat. Swartzen, the Sac State confidential campus advocate, had spent the past nine months supporting a student who reported being sexually assaulted. Swartzen had listened to the student’s wrenching...
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Un grupo de trabajadores agrícolas en Watsonville se pronuncia después de que una iglesia local rescindiera el contrato de arrendamiento de un terreno utilizado para un jardín comunitario. El grupo, llamado Tierras Milperas, ha cultivado alimentos para las familias locales durante 12 años en una propiedad que pertenece a...
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A farmworker group in Watsonville is speaking out after a local church terminated the lease on land used for a community garden. The group, called Tierras Milperas, has grown food for local families for 12 years on property which belongs to the All Saints/Cristo Rey Episcopal Church. After a...
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Los maestros de escuelas públicas en Florida ahora tienen prohibido dar instrucción en el aula sobre orientación sexual o identidad de género después de que el gobernador Ron DeSantis firmo el controvertido proyecto de ley “Derechos de los padres en la educación”, o lo que los críticos denominan el proyecto de ley...
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Public schoolteachers in Florida are now prohibited from giving classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial Parental Rights in Education bill, or what critics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Critics accuse DeSantis, a likely 2024 Republican presidential candidate, of playing politics...
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More help is in the works to make it easier for adults in rural northern California to go back to college for a certificate or degree. ProjectAttain! in the Sacramento area is one of five educational nonprofits around the country splitting a $750,000 grant from CivicLab. Barbara Halsey, network director...
Alexei Koseff CalMatters Three years ago, advocates for reducing smoking and vaping in California won a major victory when they persuaded the state Legislature to adopt a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products despite an intense industry lobbying campaign. But in recent months, those same groups have been largely...
Groups fighting for Palestinian rights are praising a new fact sheet on religious discrimination from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, because of what it left out. The document does not include a definition of antisemitism written by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Former President Donald Trump issued an executive order in...
Cuando Laura Swartzen vio el correo electrónico de la oficina del Título IX de la Universidad Estatal de Sacramento, sintió que su corazón dio un brinco. Swartzen, el defensor confidencial del campus de Sac State, había pasado los últimos nueve meses apoyando a un estudiante que denunció haber sido...
When Laura Swartzen saw the email from Sacramento State University’s Title IX office, it felt like her heart skipped a beat. Swartzen, the Sac State confidential campus advocate, had spent the past nine months supporting a student who reported being sexually assaulted. Swartzen had listened to the student’s wrenching...
Un grupo de trabajadores agrícolas en Watsonville se pronuncia después de que una iglesia local rescindiera el contrato de arrendamiento de un terreno utilizado para un jardín comunitario. El grupo, llamado Tierras Milperas, ha cultivado alimentos para las familias locales durante 12 años en una propiedad que pertenece a...
Los maestros de escuelas públicas en Florida ahora tienen prohibido dar instrucción en el aula sobre orientación sexual o identidad de género después de que el gobernador Ron DeSantis firmo el controvertido proyecto de ley “Derechos de los padres en la educación”, o lo que los críticos denominan el proyecto de ley...
Public schoolteachers in Florida are now prohibited from giving classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial Parental Rights in Education bill, or what critics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Critics accuse DeSantis, a likely 2024 Republican presidential candidate, of playing politics...
More help is in the works to make it easier for adults in rural northern California to go back to college for a certificate or degree. ProjectAttain! in the Sacramento area is one of five educational nonprofits around the country splitting a $750,000 grant from CivicLab. Barbara Halsey, network director...
