Education Beat
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Community schools provide many services for kids and families – health care, mental health therapy, housing assistance, and more.

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Community schools provide many services for kids and families – health care, mental health therapy, housing assistance, and more.
Students who have survived a school shooting or shooting threats share how those experiences have impacted them.
A student from the University of Texas at San Antonio details how a graduation help desk cleared his way to the finish line.
High school seniors share their struggles and triumphs, including a mental health website for kids.
Some say we need to look beyond colleges and instead find new bilingual teachers among bus drivers, teachers’ aides, and attendance clerks.
A small town in the Central Valley could turn its community library into a police station, but not if some kids have their way.
College students wrote a bill that would require California colleges to print a local mental health hotline on student I.D. cards.
Teachers have to get creative to get students excited about math and make up for lost time, after a year of distance learning.
School district administrators discuss some ways to increase attendance and enrollment, through porch visits or creating a district-run homeschooling option.
One mom who lived in her car for almost a year, through a school district safe parking program, now helps feed her neighbors still living in their cars.