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Carolyn Jones CalMatters California’s K-12 students showed moderate progress academically last year, with some bright spots but otherwise plateauing after years of post-pandemic improvements, according to the new California School Dashboard released today. Chronic absenteeism, discipline rates and progress among English learners all remained mostly unchanged, with slight improvements....
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Alpha Public Schools gestiona cuatro colegios concertados en el este de San José, donde el ochenta por ciento del alumnado es latino. Cuando comenzaron las redadas del ICE a principios de año, el miedo llevó a muchas familias a mantener a sus alumnos en casa. Desde entonces, la escuela...
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Alpha Public Schools operates four charter schools in East San Jose where eighty percent of the student body is Latino. When ICE raids began earlier this year, fear drove many families to keep their students at home. Since then, the school has made efforts to address the fears and...
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At least 42 million of the country’s lowest-income people will imminently stop receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) starting November 1st. The majority of SNAP recipients are children, seniors, or people with disabilities. Eighty-six percent of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child,...
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters California’s port traffic is beginning to look worse now, under the effects of President Donald Trump’s fickle tariff policy, than it did at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The vessel calls, or cancellations, that we’re seeing today (are) starting to exceed the number that we...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters AI can get rid of racist restrictions in housing covenants and help people access government benefits, or it can deny people health care or a mortgage because of their race. That’s why, last month, for the third year in a row, Democratic Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of San Ramon proposed a bill to protect people from automated...
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Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week. That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. California has taken just about every route and opportunity to...
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Alejandro Lazo CalMatters California’s push to electrify its cars is facing a potentially serious problem: People aren’t buying electric cars fast enough. After three straight years of strong growth, sales have stabilized in...
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Alexei Koseff CalMatters For California political observers, the housing plan that Kamala Harris recently unveiled may have caused a twinge of familiarity. As a central plank of her agenda to “lower costs for American families,” the Democratic presidential nominee pledged in August to build 3 million additional affordable homes and rentals...
Carolyn Jones CalMatters California’s K-12 students showed moderate progress academically last year, with some bright spots but otherwise plateauing after years of post-pandemic improvements, according to the new California School Dashboard released today. Chronic absenteeism, discipline rates and progress among English learners all remained mostly unchanged, with slight improvements....
Alpha Public Schools gestiona cuatro colegios concertados en el este de San José, donde el ochenta por ciento del alumnado es latino. Cuando comenzaron las redadas del ICE a principios de año, el miedo llevó a muchas familias a mantener a sus alumnos en casa. Desde entonces, la escuela...
Alpha Public Schools operates four charter schools in East San Jose where eighty percent of the student body is Latino. When ICE raids began earlier this year, fear drove many families to keep their students at home. Since then, the school has made efforts to address the fears and...
At least 42 million of the country’s lowest-income people will imminently stop receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) starting November 1st. The majority of SNAP recipients are children, seniors, or people with disabilities. Eighty-six percent of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child,...
Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters California’s port traffic is beginning to look worse now, under the effects of President Donald Trump’s fickle tariff policy, than it did at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The vessel calls, or cancellations, that we’re seeing today (are) starting to exceed the number that we...
Khari Johnson CalMatters AI can get rid of racist restrictions in housing covenants and help people access government benefits, or it can deny people health care or a mortgage because of their race. That’s why, last month, for the third year in a row, Democratic Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of San Ramon proposed a bill to protect people from automated...
Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week. That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people. California has taken just about every route and opportunity to...
Alejandro Lazo CalMatters California’s push to electrify its cars is facing a potentially serious problem: People aren’t buying electric cars fast enough. After three straight years of strong growth, sales have stabilized in...
Alexei Koseff CalMatters For California political observers, the housing plan that Kamala Harris recently unveiled may have caused a twinge of familiarity. As a central plank of her agenda to “lower costs for American families,” the Democratic presidential nominee pledged in August to build 3 million additional affordable homes and rentals...