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Tfrontado & Brittany Oceguera CalMatters Para los estudiantes universitarios que buscan un trabajo que se ajuste a sus horarios académicos y la oportunidad de realizar un trabajo significativo en sus comunidades, un programa estatal popular ofrece ambos. Desde su lanzamiento en 2022, el programa estatal College Corps ha remunerado a estudiantes...
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Brittany Oceguera CalMatters For college students seeking a job that fits around their academic schedules, and the opportunity to do meaningful work in their communities, a popular state program offers both. Since it launched in 2022, the state program known as College Corps has been paying college students for community service...
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California leads the country in deaths from heart disease, losing over 65,000 individuals from the condition in 2021, beating out cancer and a slew of other major health issues as the leading cause of death. High blood pressure (also known as hypertension), which can lead to heart disease, is...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters For most K-12 student groups in California, test scores have been maddeningly flat since the pandemic. But for Black students, stagnant scores have been particularly frustrating: Black students’ math and English language arts scores inched downward for most grade levels last year, notching some of the...
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Shelly Palmer “I don’t want to be Jewish anymore.” My grandmother looked sympathetically at her seven-year-old grandson and asked why. “Everyone hates us, the Nazis killed us, and I don’t want to be killed just because I’m Jewish.” During the course of that afternoon, my grandmother told me the...