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Ramos is vice president of Salinas Elementary Teachers Council (SETC). For 27 years, he taught at the same school before taking a special assignment this year to work with historically underserved students in the migrant community....
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FREMONT, CA – Bay Area Community Health and On Lok, two of the Bay Area’s leading community healthcare organizations, are presenting on November 15th a special screening of the award-winning documentary short film Campesinos: America’s Unsung Heroes which tells vivid, compelling stories of California farmworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Alexei Koseff CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call a special legislative session in December to push for a tax on oil industry profits, the latest escalation in a feud over soaring gasoline prices that Newsom calls greedy and manipulative. Newsom said on October 7th that he would convene the...
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La primera vez que Namirah Jones visitó al dentista a los 5 años, su colapso detuvo las operaciones del consultorio. Su madre, Mia Costley, su abuela y un asistente dental la sujetaron mientras ella gritaba. El dentista ni siquiera pudo poner un espejo en su boca. “Fue entonces cuando...
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The first time Namirah Jones visited the dentist at age 5, her meltdown brought the office to a halt. Her mother, Mia Costley, her grandmother and a dental assistant held her down while she screamed. The dentist couldn’t even get a mirror in her mouth. “That’s when it was...
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Kristen Harper and Edward Fergus, PhD Child Trends In their recent study featured in Education Week, Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier, and Maczuga got it wrong in arguing that more black children should be identified with educational disabilities and challenging federal policies meant to address overrepresentation by race in special education. To be clear, black...