Education Beat
What’s keeping California’s community college students from transferring?
Too few students are successfully making the jump from California’s community colleges to four-year universities. What’s holding them back?

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California’s Reading Dilemma

Saving Head Start

Falling rates, rising risk: Vaccination rates down in California

Five Years Later: Covid’s Lasting Impact on Education
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.
Blind students sued the Los Angeles Community College District claiming that they weren’t given accessible materials in math classes.
John Fensterwald takes us for school lunch, cooked from scratch by fifth and sixth graders.
We hear from a theater teacher who had students build a Hogwarts scene and a custodian who started an after-school chess club, with COVID relief funds.