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Groups fighting for equity in education are asking the state to protect vulnerable groups as the Trump administration guts the federal Department of Education. The Secretary of Education has moved to fire most of the staff and cancel millions in grants, aiming to transfer more responsibility to the states....
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José López Zamorano La Red Hispana In what has become a Washington autumn tradition, the United States federal government will face another shutdown. This is not a mere administrative technicality; the paralysis of the bureaucratic giant has direct consequences for millions of people inside and outside the country....
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In what has become a Washington autumn tradition, the United States federal government will face another shutdown. This is not a mere administrative technicality; the paralysis of the bureaucratic giant has direct consequences for millions of people inside and outside the country. As almost every year, history repeats itself,...
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Edward Kissam American Community Media The U.S. Department of Labor plans to discontinue the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS) by September 27. Loss of data from the survey, widely-recognized as providing the best and most up-to-date information on more than 2 million U.S. farmworkers and their families, will have...
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Massachusetts educators are praising federal legislation to ensure public schoolteachers make a minimum of $60,000 a year. Supporters say the Pay Teachers Act would help fill the more than 4,000 teacher vacancies statewide and ensure fully certified teachers are staffing schools. Cory O’Hayer, a social studies teacher for Boston...
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With federal protections for immigrant students threatened, California has a lifeline: the California Dream Act Application (CADAA). Last spring, the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) — the state agency responsible for distributing over $3 billion in financial aid — reported a 38% drop in CADAA applications and a 14%...
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El pánico se ha apoderado de los distritos escolares de todo el Estado Dorado a medida que la administración Trump continúa reteniendo fondos federales. Tony Thurmond, superintendente de Instrucción Pública del Estado, dijo que los distritos escolares de California perderán cerca de 1.000 millones de dólares. Luis Valentino, superintendente...
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Panic has set in at school districts across the Golden State as the Trump administration continues to withhold federal funds. Tony Thurmond, state superintendent of public instruction, said California school districts stand to immediately lose close to $1 billion. Luis Valentino, retired superintendent of Coachella Valley Unified School District...
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Las empresas californianas que fabrican materiales de embalaje compostables afirman que sus productos podrían contribuir significativamente al problema de la contaminación por plástico, pero solo con cambios en las políticas estatales y federales. California aprobó el Proyecto de Ley 54 del Senado en 2022. Este exige que los envases...