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Los demócratas del Comité de Supervisión de la Camara de Representantes afirman que la investigación del GOP sobre si los sindicatos de profesores tuvieron demasiada influencia en el cierre de escuelas tras la pandemia no ha dado resultados. Un portavoz de los demócratas dice que, de hecho, los Centros...
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say a GOP probe into whether teachers’ unions had too much influence on pandemic school closures has come up empty. A spokesperson for the Democrats says that in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consulted a wide range of stakeholders before...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Grizzled farmworkers are the hot new commodity as community colleges try to reverse a years-long enrollment decline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the “golden age” of higher education — where more and more adults were attending college every year — came to a halt, and California’s...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Food banks across California are bracing for a feared spike in hunger amid inflated prices after a pandemic-era boost in food aid ends in April. March is the last month CalFresh recipients will get the additional benefits, as the federal government cuts off the “emergency allotments”...
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The world’s richest 1% took home almost twice as much wealth as the bottom 99% combined during the pandemic, according to a new Oxfam International report. Morris Pearl, chair of the group Patriotic Millionaires, said current tax codes are not cutting it anymore. The rich keep getting richer while people...
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Joe Hong CalMatters Los estudiantes de quinto grado de Roxanne Grago en la escuela primaria Lake Marie deben poder leer una historia corta, analizarla y respaldar sus análisis con ejemplos del texto. Pero Grago dijo que durante el cierre de escuelas y otras interrupciones de la era de la...
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Joe Hong CalMatters Roxanne Grago’s fifth-grade students at Lake Marie Elementary should be able to read a short story, analyze it, and support their analyses with examples from the text. But Grago said that during school closures and other pandemic-era disruptions, students fell behind academically. Today, they struggle to...
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Durante 2021, el primer año después de que comenzó la pandemia, California logro mantener asegurado a más del 96 % de los niños, según un nuevo informe de la Universidad de Georgetown. Los autores dan crédito a una ley federal que otorgo dinero extra a los estados para que nadie dejara...
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During 2021, the first year after the pandemic began, California managed to keep more than 96% of children insured, according to a new report from Georgetown University. The authors credit a federal law which gave states extra money so no one would be dropped from Medicaid during COVID. Joan...