California will become the first state in the country to require its K-12 teachers and school sector workers to be vaccinated or tested for COVID-19 each week. The announcement was made by Governor Gavin Newsom […]
John Ramirez Jr. has been named Superintendent of the Stockton Unified School District in a super majority vote May 25. Ramirez comes to Stockton with 27 years of experience in education and has a proven […]
The Stockton Unified School District is pleased to announce students will have the opportunity to return to in-person learning April 29, 2021. Administrators, teachers and staff are ready to welcome back students. More than 23,000 parents […]
California’s 6 million student population demographic is dominated by Latinos. More than half, approximately 3 million-plus, identify by that ethnicity. Closer to home in Stockton, that percentage shifts to a 70 percent Latino student populace […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention has been paid to the plight of students without any homes or unstable housing. Our research at UCLA shows that more than 269,000 K-12 students are experiencing homelessness in […]
As the Hispanic population in the U.S. continues to grow — surpassing 60 million in 2019 — a recent workforce survey showed less than 6% of U.S. doctors are Hispanic. This underrepresentation of Hispanics in […]
In a historic shift, Latinos are the leading group of prospective freshmen accepted into the University of California for fall 2020, part of the system’s largest and most diverse first-year class ever admitted, according to […]
Late last month, San Diego high school teacher Jessica Macias put aside her worries about her future, psyched herself up and launched into an enthusiastic lesson via video feed to her class on the theory […]
Last month, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a comprehensive data analysis on the state of education across all educational levels, and it appears enrollment of Latino students at college campuses has increased. […]
STOCKTON — Mariel Montes and her younger brother, Alexandro, grew up in a family that valued education. Their parents Maribel and Miguel, immigrated to the United States from Mexico and met in Stockton, where they […]
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