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Behind some of these smiling faces are grumbling tummies. Many of these children worry about what they're going to eat over the weekend.

Disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones — yet we do so in the face of stigma and provider ignorance.

L.A. community college and K-12 students in participating districts can ride Metro trains and buses for free under a new program starting this month.

Brace yourselves, students and parents. Your L.A. Unified School District campus may be reopening in April for the first time in potentially 13 months, but the place wont be quite the same. You may be prepared for the now-familiar COVID-19 countermeasures -- face mask requirements, social-distancing warning signs, hand sanitizer stations. But are you ready for a kindergarten classroom without shared toys, books, counting buttons, a reading chair, or even a circle-time rug? Parent Chaka Forman w...

Print Black students in Los Angeles County continue to face a multitude of barriers to an equitable education, including concentrated poverty, high suspension rates and housing insecurity, a UCLA report released Wednesday found. Researchers focused on 14 school districts in the county that serve at least 800 Black students to understand how various factors are leaving behind Black children, particularly those considered vulnerable. The report by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools...

In California, a million English learners are at risk of intractable education loss Paloma Esquivel © Provided by The LA Times Aida Vega and her 13-year-old daughter, whose progress in learning English was disrupted by the pandemic. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) Aida Vega’s 13-year-old daughter, who has attended Los Angeles schools since kindergarten and is in eighth grade, still struggles to read and write English. Vega has long pushed for extra help so her child ca...

Redondo Beach: Are We Depriving Them? Further south in Redondo Beach, the total coronavirus case rate is at one of the lowest levels in L.A. County. The school district there already opened elementary schools over a month ago. Even so, Valerie Castro is keeping her twin daughters, second graders, at home. "We have been fairly conservative with our COVID precautions. We rarely go out," Castro said. "Like, I remember at one point I went to Barnes and Noble and walked around for half an hour....an...

Compton School District, Health Group Partner for Mass Vaccination Sites By City News Service Published February 4, 2021 Compton Unified School District and St. John’s Well Child & Family Center, the largest health care provider in South Los Angeles and Compton, have reached an agreement to operate mass community vaccination sites at schools throughout the city, it was announced today. The partnership is the first of its kind in Los Angeles County, and will result in the ability to vaccinate ...

Should Schools Become Vaccination Sites for Everyone? 9 min read Denise Tilley receives her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 3, 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska. The Anchorage school district is a leading provider of inoculations to community members in the state.Marc Lester for Education Week Share article Copy URL An increasing number of school district leaders are setting up creative partnerships to vaccinate teachers and staff—and now some are pressing local health off...

The partnership is the first of its kind in Los Angeles County, and will result in the ability to vaccinate tens of thousands of Compton residents once community vaccination begins.