May 18, 2022
California must consider rural districts' unique realities for community schools grants
Innovative program that allowed rural districts to collaborate to create and expand community school programs runs into a surprising roadblock.
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Rural schools
April 21, 2022
Empty classrooms and quiet hallways: California's rural far north grapples with declining enrollment
Enrollment has dropped more than 5% in rural Northern California over the past 20 years, with some districts seeing drops of 50% or more.
Carolyn Jones
August 12, 2021
Wildfires delay beginning of school year for some rural California schools, some for the second year
Raging wildfires have become an annual threat to school districts in California's rural regions, and this year they are disrupting reopening plans.
Diana Lambert
May 14, 2021
A California program spent millions on devices for distance learning. Here’s where it went
The vast majority of rural California students now have access to computers at home, but thousands still can't connect to the internet.
Sydney Johnson And Daniel J. Willis
August 19, 2020
A tiny school in Northern California opens for in-person teaching with six of its 14 students
One of the smallest districts in the state in a county with comparatively low infection rates, Indian Diggings Elementary School District opened for in-person instruction but with safeguards against the coronavirus.
Betty Márquez Rosales
August 14, 2020
Coronavirus compounds education challenges in Central Valley
Don Shalvey of San Joaquin A+ talks about how to increase college attainment, and Brian Biedermann, the new superintendent of Stockton Unified, says distance learning is going well, but 8 to 10 percent of students not accounted for on online rolls.
EdSource staff
June 30, 2020
How schools across the globe are reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic
Regular temperature checks, physical distancing and even new restrictions on lunch are common as schools have reopened across the globe.
Michael Burke And Yuxuan Xie
June 26, 2020
Long road ahead to close California’s digital divide in education before new school year begins
About 56,700 laptops and 94,000 hotspots have been sent to districts across the state so far.
Sydney Johnson
May 1, 2020
More California students are online, but digital divide runs deep with distance learning
More than a month since most schools first closed, at least 270,000 students remain disconnected to the internet at home.
Sydney Johnson And Michael Burke
April 21, 2020
Internet providers asked to do more for California students without access
Donations announced Monday are beginning to chip away at the daunting task of connecting all students to devices and internet from home.
Sydney Johnson
December 6, 2019
Disconnected: Internet stops once school ends for many rural California students
Only about a third of California households in rural areas are subscribed to internet service, compared with 78 percent in urban areas.
Sydney Johnson
November 18, 2019
Students talk through math in this California school. Now test scores are rising.
Math scores for Latino students have more than doubled at Robbins Elementary since 2014-15.
Sydney Johnson
October 25, 2019
California rural schools struggling to hire teachers could get help from $9.4 million in grants
Two federal grants will help California recruit teachers and mental health professionals to rural schools.
Diana Lambert
January 17, 2019
California’s student suspension rates are far higher in rural schools
Behind the high suspension rates in rural areas are family struggles with poverty, mental illness, addiction and parental incarceration, a dearth of resources to address those needs and underfunded schools.
Lee Romney And Daniel J. Willis
January 15, 2019
Help EdSource shine a light on challenges in rural education
Our newsroom wants to tell the stories of students and their families in rural California who are suffering from high rates of chronic absenteeism, and help in the search for solutions.