The longstanding community organization and the largest Hispanic-led nonprofit social services in the Centra Valley, El Concilio California, has expanded operations with the creation of the affiliate 501(c)(3) El Concilio California Academies – the independent […]
Karen Calderon was born in Berkeley and moved to the Central Valley in 2006. Her family became established in the area, and she attended local public schools until she was a freshman in high school. […]
The four largest school districts in the Sacramento region collectively lost about 3,250 students from the last school year to the current one, nearly matching enrollment losses from the first year of the pandemic, according […]
As some of the last statewide mask mandates in the U.S. near an end, decisions about whether students and teachers should continue to wear masks in school are shifting to local leaders, who are caught […]
It’s hard to overstate the importance of education among the Latino community. Education has always been the great equalizer to help achieve the American dream. And in recent years, it was almost a dream being […]
A Democratic lawmaker wants to use part of the state’s projected $31 billion budget surplus to increase funding for schools and change how California pays for public education. A new bill by Sen. Anthony Portantino […]
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 […]
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