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It’s back to school time and there is so much for families to do to get ready for the school year ahead, from getting school supplies to signing up for after school programs. Making sure kids have health care needs covered should be a part of those preparations. Free...
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Tara García Mathewson & Carolyn Jones CalMatters California school districts are short hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money they had already budgeted for this year. While Congress approved the funds as part of its 2025 budget, the Trump Administration today refused to release them, sending districts across the...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters Children shouldn’t speak with companion chatbots because such interactions risk self-harm and could exacerbate mental health problems and addiction. That’s according to a risk assessment by children’s advocacy group Common Sense Media conducted with input from a lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Companion bots, artificial intelligence...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters Los niños no deberían hablar con chatbots de compañía, ya que estas interacciones pueden provocar autolesiones y agravar problemas de salud mental y adicciones. Esto según una evaluación de riesgos realizada por Common Sense Media, un grupo de defensa de los derechos de los niños, con...
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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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Choosing healthy beverages for children and adolescents is just as important as choosing healthy foods, as it impacts everything from oral health to chronic disease risk. That’s why leading health and nutrition organizations developed new healthy beverage recommendations for families with children ages 5-18. These evidence-based recommendations were created...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador En una galaxia muy, muy lejana, existe un vecindario y niños que parecen terriblemente familiares a los que se encuentran en la película de 1985 The Goonies. Al incorporar la comedia de aventuras para niños con los peligrosos piratas espaciales y experiencias increíbles más allá...
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Arturo Hilario El Observador In a galaxy, far, far away there exists a neighborhood and children that seem awfully familiar to those found in the 1985 film The Goonies. Incorporating children’s adventure comedy with the dangerous space pirates and incredible experiences beyond their neatly kept streets, the new live-action...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters When the superintendent in San Francisco Unified proposed closing schools recently, parents launched a prolonged — and successful — protest. The uproar may have died down for now, but the issue is likely to erupt at school boards across the state — and some say that’s...
It’s back to school time and there is so much for families to do to get ready for the school year ahead, from getting school supplies to signing up for after school programs. Making sure kids have health care needs covered should be a part of those preparations. Free...
Tara García Mathewson & Carolyn Jones CalMatters California school districts are short hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money they had already budgeted for this year. While Congress approved the funds as part of its 2025 budget, the Trump Administration today refused to release them, sending districts across the...
Khari Johnson CalMatters Children shouldn’t speak with companion chatbots because such interactions risk self-harm and could exacerbate mental health problems and addiction. That’s according to a risk assessment by children’s advocacy group Common Sense Media conducted with input from a lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Companion bots, artificial intelligence...
Khari Johnson CalMatters Los niños no deberían hablar con chatbots de compañía, ya que estas interacciones pueden provocar autolesiones y agravar problemas de salud mental y adicciones. Esto según una evaluación de riesgos realizada por Common Sense Media, un grupo de defensa de los derechos de los niños, con...
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...
Choosing healthy beverages for children and adolescents is just as important as choosing healthy foods, as it impacts everything from oral health to chronic disease risk. That’s why leading health and nutrition organizations developed new healthy beverage recommendations for families with children ages 5-18. These evidence-based recommendations were created...
Arturo Hilario El Observador En una galaxia muy, muy lejana, existe un vecindario y niños que parecen terriblemente familiares a los que se encuentran en la película de 1985 The Goonies. Al incorporar la comedia de aventuras para niños con los peligrosos piratas espaciales y experiencias increíbles más allá...
Arturo Hilario El Observador In a galaxy, far, far away there exists a neighborhood and children that seem awfully familiar to those found in the 1985 film The Goonies. Incorporating children’s adventure comedy with the dangerous space pirates and incredible experiences beyond their neatly kept streets, the new live-action...
Carolyn Jones CalMatters When the superintendent in San Francisco Unified proposed closing schools recently, parents launched a prolonged — and successful — protest. The uproar may have died down for now, but the issue is likely to erupt at school boards across the state — and some say that’s...