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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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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Los programas extraescolares y de verano de California recuperarán parte de su financiación después de que el gobierno federal dijera el viernes 18 de julio que restablecería las subvenciones que había retenido anteriormente. Pero el dinero está supeditado a que los estados cumplan las leyes de...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters California after-school and summer programs will get some of their funding back after the federal government said on Friday July 18 that it would restore grants it had previously withheld. But the money is contingent on states complying with Civil Rights laws – a cudgel the...
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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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Dos organizaciones sin fines de lucro de California trabajan para que las juntas escolares sean más eficaces, diversas e inclusivas, con el fin de contrarrestar la instrumentalización de los problemas culturales que a menudo afecta la gobernanza escolar. La Academia de Justicia Educativa capacita a miembros o candidatos a...
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Two California nonprofits are working to make school boards more effective, diverse, and inclusive, to counter the weaponization of cultural issues that often plagues school governance. The Education Justice Academy trains school board members or candidates twice a year on how to read a budget, how state funding or...
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Medicaid is in the crosshairs, as Republicans in Congress are expected to lay out proposals in May to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget, prompting strong opposition from educators. Around 15 million Californians rely on Medicaid, known here as Medi-Cal, for their health care. However, as Mayra Alvarez,...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters El otoño pasado, más de 17,400 estudiantes de último año de preparatoria recibieron la noticia más dulce que cualquier estudiante ansioso puede recibir: felicitaciones, debido a tu promedio de calificaciones, eres admitido automáticamente en uno de los 10 campus de la Universidad Estatal de California de...