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The Newsom administration plans to spend $4.4 billion addressing mental health needs among young people. But will it come soon enough?
In the personal essay below, Rubén Martínez, host of Excavating the Future, reflects on individual and collective experiences over the past two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID a global pandemic on March 11, 2020.
Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a pep talk to Californians tired of COVID and worried about crime, homelessness and inflation. In his State of the State address, he pledged some relief from high gas prices, but mostly promoted the "California Way" of finding new solutions to big problems.
Parents, educators and now students are caught in the polarized debate over mask and vaccine mandates. Officials are worried communities might not recover.
Millions of Californians at high risk from conditions like heart disease, autoimmune disorders and diabetes feel unprotected and forgotten as the state rolls back its COVID orders.
A top state health official provided little new information on Monday. Public health experts say it might be time to take more steps towards normalcy at schools.
There is a nationwide surge of teachers who are leaving the profession, especially evident among members of the profession with minority backgrounds. Amid the pandemic’s toxic brew of death, illness, and classroom disruption, these departures of seasoned teachers have created another strain for students.
California appears to be on the brink of one of its most dramatic shifts in COVID policy: changing school mask mandates.
Amid COVID-related staffing shortages and testing requirements, school systems are stretched thin. And so are parents’ nerves.
During the pandemic, Black and Latino youth noticed an increase in mental health issues among their peers. Members of the ACLU's SoCal youth branch took action, advocating for holistic mental health solutions in schools.
U.S. gave final approval Tuesday for children ages 5 to 11. In some California counties, they can be vaccinated as soon as today.
Proposition 16 is intended to bring affirmative action back into the way Californians do business. I studied both the arguments for and against Proposition 16 and found that those against the ballot perpetuate several myths about affirmative action.