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(Photo courtesy of Julie Leopo EdSource) Memorials along the main road into Paradise honoring the 85 people killed in the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history.

Lost Days: Inside one rural California district’s effort to combat chronic absenteeism

June 5, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

Editor's Note: This is part two of series on school absenteeism It’s Dena Kapsalis’ job to fight chronic absenteeism in Paradise Unified, a school district in Northern California’s rural Butte...

Conservative religious groups targeting California’s sex education guidance

May 8, 2019 at 6:15 a.m.

With the State Board of Education set to vote on new sex education teaching guidance, conservative religious groups are mobilizing parents in an aggressive effort to remove recommendations focused on the sexual...

(Photo Credit: Getty Images / Yuri_Arcurs via EdSource) A growing body of research is demonstrating that answers regarding school safety questions only scratch the surface with deeper analysis needed on the subject.

California districts to take part in groundbreaking school safety study

April 4, 2019 at 6:19 a.m.

What are all the things that make a school safe and the people inside it feel connected with each other and the surrounding community? This question is most often answered...

(Photo courtesy of Fiona Roberts) Fiona Roberts sifts through the rubble of her mother’s home in Paradise, which was destroyed in the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018.

School system focuses on mental health after devastating fire

January 17, 2019 at 6:17 a.m.

BUTTE COUNTY— The flames have long since died down, but Fiona Roberts, a high school senior, remains haunted by the memory of being trapped with her mother in a slow-motion...

(Credit: Andy Kreiss/ The L.A. Trust via EdSource) Family Nurse Practitioner Glenda Leflore examines Fremont High School student Brianna Star Hernandez at the Fremont High School Wellness Center.

With sparse state funding, school districts get creative in addressing student health

December 20, 2018 at 6:47 a.m.

As pressures grow on schools to address students’ physical and mental health, including the stress and trauma they may experience in their homes and neighborhoods, many California educators are acknowledging...

(Photos by Alison Yin for EdSource) High school seniors participate in the engineering academy at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Calif.

California school districts to get ‘wake-up call’ with new absenteeism measures

November 30, 2018 at 12:07 p.m.

At least 40 percent of California school districts and charter schools have rates of chronic absence in grades K-8 that are high or very high based on new performance measures...

Paradise educators find resilience amid fire’s destruction

November 24, 2018 at 6:17 a.m.

BUTTE COUNTY— They can’t dwell on what the fire has taken from them, or the losses still to come. So they focus on Dec. 3. That’s the day people responsible...

(Photo Courtesy of EdSource) Melanie Heidelberger and her daughter Hannah are part of an extended family camping out at the evacuation center in Gridley. Their house in Magalia is still standing, but conditions are too unsafe for their return.

After the fire, a school district gone

November 17, 2018 at 6:58 a.m.

Andrew and Ariya Boone got the call from Paradise Elementary at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 8. Fire was roaring toward the town of Paradise and they had to come immediately...

Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during a press conference in Concord, Calif., in 2017. (Susan Tripp Pollard/Bay Area News Group)

With bill signings, Gov. Brown makes his final mark on California education

October 9, 2018 at 12:45 p.m.

Gov. Jerry Brown wrapped up his final legislative session this week and in doing so became the most prolific decider of laws in California history. During his 16 years as...

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