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Reading is a foundation for learning, yet a vast gap exists in access to books for low-income neighborhoods. According to the Handbook of Literacy Research, in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio of books per child is just one age-appropriate book for every 300 children. Without books in the home, children...
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Amanda Arellano sintió que un gran peso le oprimía el pecho. Era mayo de 2021 y el adolescente luchaba por respirar. María Arellano llevó a toda prisa a su hija de 17 años al neumólogo. Amanda tiene parálisis cerebral, autismo, epilepsia, asma y un soplo cardíaco. Con COVID al...
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Amanda Arellano felt a heavy weight pressing down on her chest. It was May of 2021, and the teenager struggled to breathe. Maria Arellano rushed her 17-year-old daughter to the pulmonologist. Amanda has cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, asthma and a heart murmur. With COVID on the prowl, they couldn’t...
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A father killed his three children and their chaperone before turning the gun on himself during a court ordered supervised visitation in a church parking lot. The horrifying incident took place in Sacramento, and it has not yet been recognized by the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, or the state’s...
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Medi-Cal, the state’s safety net health program, isn’t free for everyone. More than half a million of California’s lowest-income children, pregnant individuals and working disabled adults are required to pay health insurance premiums, ranging from $13 a month to as much as $350. That may change this year under...
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Steven Kellner es un ex superintendente escolar que ahora trabaja para California Education Partners, una organización sin fines de lucro. Un martes por la tarde en mayo, la maestra de tercer grado Clara Yáñez y la maestra de segundo grado Jackie González se pararon frente a su junta de...
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Steven Kellner is a former school superintendent who now works for California Education Partners, a nonprofit organization. On a Tuesday evening in May, third-grade teacher Clara Yanez and second-grade teacher Jackie Gonzalez stood in front of their board of education and asked them to count little plastic farm animals. While...
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Para Daisy Lopez de Oakland, preparar para su día a Ximena, su hija de cinco años, no es nada fácil. En una mañana reciente, antes de una fiesta de cumpleaños al aire libre en la casa de su madre en San Lorenzo, López verificó el clima para ese día:...
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For Daisy Lopez of Oakland, preparing her five-year-old daughter, Ximena, for a day out is no easy feat. On a recent morning, ahead of an all-day, outdoor birthday party at her mother’s house in San Lorenzo, Lopez checked the weather for the day – temperatures in the 70s to...
Reading is a foundation for learning, yet a vast gap exists in access to books for low-income neighborhoods. According to the Handbook of Literacy Research, in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio of books per child is just one age-appropriate book for every 300 children. Without books in the home, children...
Amanda Arellano sintió que un gran peso le oprimía el pecho. Era mayo de 2021 y el adolescente luchaba por respirar. María Arellano llevó a toda prisa a su hija de 17 años al neumólogo. Amanda tiene parálisis cerebral, autismo, epilepsia, asma y un soplo cardíaco. Con COVID al...
Amanda Arellano felt a heavy weight pressing down on her chest. It was May of 2021, and the teenager struggled to breathe. Maria Arellano rushed her 17-year-old daughter to the pulmonologist. Amanda has cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, asthma and a heart murmur. With COVID on the prowl, they couldn’t...
A father killed his three children and their chaperone before turning the gun on himself during a court ordered supervised visitation in a church parking lot. The horrifying incident took place in Sacramento, and it has not yet been recognized by the California Governor, Gavin Newsom, or the state’s...
Medi-Cal, the state’s safety net health program, isn’t free for everyone. More than half a million of California’s lowest-income children, pregnant individuals and working disabled adults are required to pay health insurance premiums, ranging from $13 a month to as much as $350. That may change this year under...
Steven Kellner es un ex superintendente escolar que ahora trabaja para California Education Partners, una organización sin fines de lucro. Un martes por la tarde en mayo, la maestra de tercer grado Clara Yáñez y la maestra de segundo grado Jackie González se pararon frente a su junta de...
Para Daisy Lopez de Oakland, preparar para su día a Ximena, su hija de cinco años, no es nada fácil. En una mañana reciente, antes de una fiesta de cumpleaños al aire libre en la casa de su madre en San Lorenzo, López verificó el clima para ese día:...
For Daisy Lopez of Oakland, preparing her five-year-old daughter, Ximena, for a day out is no easy feat. On a recent morning, ahead of an all-day, outdoor birthday party at her mother’s house in San Lorenzo, Lopez checked the weather for the day – temperatures in the 70s to...