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Adam Echelman CalMatters San Diego is known for many things: surfing at La Jolla, the giant pandas at the zoo, and great Mexican food, to name a few. Now, there’s a new item on your must-see list. On billboards, buses, and through social media posts starting this week, the...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Hace sólo 150 años, 30 millones de bisontes americanos habitaban las Grandes Llanuras. Sin embargo, la especie estuvo a punto de extinguirse después de que los hombres de la frontera blanca se desplazaran hacia el oeste en el siglo XIX, trayendo ganado que...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Just 150 years ago, 30 million American bison inhabited the Great Plains. However, the species almost went extinct after white frontiersmen moved westward in the 1800s, bringing cattle that spread diseases to bison and altering terrain to build towns, farms and pastures. In...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Grizzled farmworkers are the hot new commodity as community colleges try to reverse a years-long enrollment decline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the “golden age” of higher education — where more and more adults were attending college every year — came to a halt, and California’s...
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Congressman Kevin McCarthy from Bakersfield announced in his first address as U.S. House Speaker that he wants to combat what he describes as “woke indoctrination” in public schools. But a new poll shows very few voters consider that to be an urgent priority. A survey commissioned by the American Federation of...
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Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
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Durante la pandemia, los colegios comunitarios de California perdieron el 19 % de su inscripción. Pero, como muestra un nuevo informe, un punado de escuelas fue lo opuesto a esta tendencia. Los investigadores de Campaign for College Opportunity descubrieron que algunas escuelas tuvieron perdidas menores o incluso agregaron estudiantes al...
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During the pandemic, California community colleges lost 19% of their enrollment, but as a new report found, a handful of schools bucked the trend. Researchers with the Campaign for College Opportunity found some schools had smaller losses or even added students by focusing on equity and expanding outreach. Colleen Moore, higher-education...
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En el momento en que Los republicanos de California se reunieron en Anaheim esta primavera, la atención se centró en los discursos de los candidatos y las batallas de respaldo mientras el partido intenta ganar su primera carrera estatal desde 2006. Pero una sesión de una hora de duración poco notada...
Adam Echelman CalMatters San Diego is known for many things: surfing at La Jolla, the giant pandas at the zoo, and great Mexican food, to name a few. Now, there’s a new item on your must-see list. On billboards, buses, and through social media posts starting this week, the...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Hace sólo 150 años, 30 millones de bisontes americanos habitaban las Grandes Llanuras. Sin embargo, la especie estuvo a punto de extinguirse después de que los hombres de la frontera blanca se desplazaran hacia el oeste en el siglo XIX, trayendo ganado que...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Just 150 years ago, 30 million American bison inhabited the Great Plains. However, the species almost went extinct after white frontiersmen moved westward in the 1800s, bringing cattle that spread diseases to bison and altering terrain to build towns, farms and pastures. In...
Adam Echelman CalMatters Grizzled farmworkers are the hot new commodity as community colleges try to reverse a years-long enrollment decline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the “golden age” of higher education — where more and more adults were attending college every year — came to a halt, and California’s...
Congressman Kevin McCarthy from Bakersfield announced in his first address as U.S. House Speaker that he wants to combat what he describes as “woke indoctrination” in public schools. But a new poll shows very few voters consider that to be an urgent priority. A survey commissioned by the American Federation of...
Starting in April, an estimated 2-3 million people could be dropped from Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people. For three years during COVID, terminations were halted, but Congress recently voted to de-link the program from the Public Health Emergency. So California will have 14 months to re-evaluate eligibility for...
Durante la pandemia, los colegios comunitarios de California perdieron el 19 % de su inscripción. Pero, como muestra un nuevo informe, un punado de escuelas fue lo opuesto a esta tendencia. Los investigadores de Campaign for College Opportunity descubrieron que algunas escuelas tuvieron perdidas menores o incluso agregaron estudiantes al...
During the pandemic, California community colleges lost 19% of their enrollment, but as a new report found, a handful of schools bucked the trend. Researchers with the Campaign for College Opportunity found some schools had smaller losses or even added students by focusing on equity and expanding outreach. Colleen Moore, higher-education...
En el momento en que Los republicanos de California se reunieron en Anaheim esta primavera, la atención se centró en los discursos de los candidatos y las batallas de respaldo mientras el partido intenta ganar su primera carrera estatal desde 2006. Pero una sesión de una hora de duración poco notada...