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Child poverty drops in California, but is still the nation’s highest |
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California’s booming economy has led to a slight drop in the child poverty rate, but the state still has the highest rate in the country when the cost of living is taken into account, according to new data released by Kidsdata and the Public Policy Institute of California. An average of 22.8 percent — or 2 million — of California’s children lived below the poverty threshold in 2013-15, which is $30,000 a year for a family of four, according to the data released this week. The number is down from 24.4 percent in 2011-13. |
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https://edsource.org/2018/child-poverty-drops-in-california-but-is-still-the-nations-highest/596285 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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Lawmakers’ renewed effort to “never forget” the Holocaust |
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Teachers across the country would receive training and resources to help students better understand the Holocaust–including what led to it and the consequences–under a bill introduced by a pair of U.S. Representatives from New York. The announcement comes as results from a national survey show that 41 percent of adults ages 18 to 34 couldn’t identify the significance of Auschwitz. Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League reports the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes rose 60 percent from 2016 to 2017 alone. |
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https://k-12daily.org/curriculum-instruction/lawmakers-renewed-effort-to-never-forget-the-holocaust |
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Proposal would fund state Office of Homeless Youth |
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A coalition of advocates for young adults joined with state Senator Scott Wiener and Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio in support of legislation that would dedicate $60 million a year to fight youth homelessness. SB 918, co-authored by Wiener, D-San Francisco and Rubio, D-West Covina, would establish a state Office of Homeless Youth to administer the funds that would be drawn from the Cannabis Tax Fund. |
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https://k-12daily.org/politics-education/proposal-would-fund-state-office-of-homeless-youth |
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KPCC
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Quantity over quality in growth of pre-K programs in California (and the US) |
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More state leaders are taking note of the benefits of early childhood education and putting more funding into preschool programs, but the quality of those programs isn't keeping pace with the quantity. That's the story in California and across the United States, according to the latest State of Preschool report released Wednesday. |
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http://www.scpr.org/news/2018/04/18/82356/quantity-over-quality-in-growth-of-pre-k-programs/ |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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Survey to Assess Opinions on School Calendar |
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The Laguna Beach Unified School District will survey students, parents and staff about potential changes in the school calendar after hearing from dozens of impassioned parents who voiced opposition to an earlier school start at a special school board study session Thursday, April 12. The superintendent said a decision on the 2019-20 school year start date must be made by July 1. |
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/survey-assess-opinions-school-calendar/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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#kindness1billion: He’s made it his New Year’s resolution to perform one kind act every day |
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On a cool day in January, Jared Hoyer spotted some on-duty police officers and bought them donuts. A week later, he pushed his neighbor’s trash cans up the driveway.
In February, he took a moment to shut a car trunk that had been accidentally left open. And on March 10 he bought his mom some flowers. Suffice to say, Hoyer has been piling up the benevolence in 2018, making good on a vow to perform one random act of kindness every day for the entire year.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/kindness1billion-hes-made-it-his-new-years-resolution-to-perform-one-kind-act-every-day/ |
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