Jane Meredith Adams

Vaccination rates for state’s 7th-graders reach new highs

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SACRAMENTO >> Vaccination rates for California 7th-graders reached their highest recorded levels, the California Department of Public Health reported, in another sign that a stricter vaccination law is having an...

‘I think the one thing we’ve learned is we have to have increased involvement, collaboration and communication between different agencies,’ said Jonathan Logan, a school psychologist at Clovis Unified and one of the district leads in suicide prevention. - Jane Meredith Adams — Edsource

Law spurs reforms after student suicide cluster

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

About 24 hours after a Clovis High School boy killed himself in early March, his cell phone buzzed. The incoming text was the latest in a conversation thread among the...

Students at Tulare Union High School are law allowed to continue to use American Indian costumes. - Courtesy Tulare Union High School

Schools obey the letter of the law, if not the spirit

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

The “Redskins” are finished, sort of, at the last four high schools in California that used the term as a team name, mascot or nickname. But to the surprise of...

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