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Butte County
May 31, 2019
Lost Days: Inside one rural California district’s effort to combat chronic absenteeism
In Paradise Unified, where the chronic absenteeism rate is 18 percent, Dena Kapsalis does what it takes to get students to come to school.
David Washburn
May 30, 2019
Lost days: Poverty, isolation drive students away from school in California's rural districts
Students who miss at least 10 percent of the school year are chronically absent and in danger of dropping out. It’s a statewide problem most acute in rural areas.
David Washburn
November 28, 2018
Plans come into focus for California schools ravaged by wildfires
Officials have identified three elementary schools that will take Paradise Unified students displaced by the deadly Camp Fire and are close to securing a site for middle and high schoolers.
David Washburn And Diana Lambert
November 20, 2018
Paradise educators find resilience amid fire's destruction
School officials throughout Butte County are working furiously to find classrooms for children who lost their schools in the Camp Fire, while also worrying about the emotional impact of the losses on students and teachers.
David Washburn And Diana Lambert
November 16, 2018
After the fire, a school district gone
The Camp Fire damaged or destroyed the majority of the schools in the Paradise Unified School District and at least 3,800 of the district's students, along with scores of teachers and several school board members, lost their homes in what has become the deadliest fire in California history.