Education Beat
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Supt. Carvalho intimately understands the challenges and promises of families who speak languages other than English at home.

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Supt. Carvalho intimately understands the challenges and promises of families who speak languages other than English at home.
Some child care workers are leaving the profession. Others are feeling crushed and frustrated by their circumstances.
There just aren’t enough drivers willing to work for the hours and pay districts can offer them.
Too few students are successfully making the jump from California’s community colleges to four-year universities. What’s holding them back?
Peer counseling can provide a safe place to work through difficult family problems, stress, and depression. What are the benefits and pitfalls?
Adjuncts cobble together part-time work at multiple colleges, hoping for a full time job that never materializes.
Principals share how they’re coping and what could help them and the teachers who work with them to stay in the profession.
Gavin Newsom and state legislators are pushing to develop a tool to screen every young student in California schools for dyslexia.
We discuss how California school districts are working to prepare and retain more Black teachers, and a Black teacher shares his experience.
As some districts run out of substitutes to step in for sick and quarantined staff, teachers and students demand more Covid testing and better masks.