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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....

This winter, volunteers counted more than 335,000 Western monarch butterflies in an annual survey, a big improvement over the last few years, but still far short of historical numbers. Observers only counted 2,000 of the iconic black-and-orange butterflies in 2020, and then 250,000 in 2021. Rebeca Quinonez-Pinon, senior manager of...