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100 Years Ago

When I retired from leading River School in 2014, later that school year there were two teen suicides in NVUSD in the space of eight days, an 8th-grade boy and a 10th grader. Those deaths shook me and, with Jeni Olsen, we started Village Napa, an advocacy group, to support the mental, social, and emotional well-being of young people. In the research I’ve done since then, I’ve discovered that suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, among college students, and th...

Reply The Napa Valley Unified School District is one of fewer than 100 school districts with K-12 campuses open for hybrid in-person instruction while remaining committed to distance learning. (Shutterstock) NAPA VALLEY, CA — While Napa Valley Unified School District students starting attending in-person classes in cohorts two days a week when the district moved to Phase Two of its four-phase reopening plan in late October, the district does not have a firm start date for Phase Three. The thi...