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October 8, 2021 at 2:39 pm

California makes ethnic studies a high school requirement

California high school students will have to take a course in ethnic studies to get a diploma starting in the 2029-30 school year

October 8, 2021 at 9:59 am

In California, inconsistent school COVID rules are the norm

Now that schools are back in session, parents are mastering this year’s new school vocabulary: Modified quarantine, antigen vs

September 22, 2021 at 10:55 am

COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff VIEW

Schools have welcomed students back to classrooms but face a new challenge: a shortage of teachers and staff the likes of which some districts say...

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September 2, 2021 at 10:04 pm

20 years after 9/11: ‘We will live with the scars’ forever

Twenty years later, Jack Grandcolas remembers waking up at 7:03 that morning

California Gov. Gavin Newsom spends time in a first-grade classroom at Juanita B. Jones Elementary in San Bernardino, Calif., Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. It is the first week back to in-person classes in the San Bernardino City Unified School District since March 2020. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP) CAANR405 CAANR405

August 11, 2021 at 11:16 am

California to require COVID-19 vaccine or weekly tests for teachers VIEW

California will become the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, Gov....

August 2, 2021 at 11:57 am

Mask mandate reinstated in San Francisco Bay Area amid surge

Health officials in San Francisco and six other Bay Area counties have announced that they are reinstating a mask mandate for all indoor settings as...

Parent Ernesto Cortes manages to carry his children’s free school lunches and a weekend family box, after picking them up on Friday, July 16, 2021, at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Liechty Middle School in Los Angeles. Flush with cash from an unexpected budget surplus, California is launching the nation’s largest statewide universal free lunch program. When classrooms open for the fall term, every one of California’s 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family’s income. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) LA109 LA109

July 19, 2021 at 6:44 am

California launches largest free school lunch program in US VIEW

All 6.2 million public school students in California will be able to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family’s income. The move is...

July 9, 2021 at 5:04 pm

California to require face masks at schools this fall

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California will require that masks be worn at schools when classrooms open this fall, despite new guidance issued Friday from the...

July 8, 2021 at 9:20 pm

Aftershocks from magnitude 6 quake rattle California, Nevada

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Aftershocks have hit the region between Northern California and Nevada Friday after a magnitude 6 earthquake sent large boulders rolling into...

July 8, 2021 at 4:39 pm

Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes along California-Nevada border

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 rattled the California-Nevada border Thursday afternoon, with people reporting feeling the shaking hundreds...