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Many teachers leave high-poverty schools for less stressful classrooms, but some veteran educators choose to stay.

There are 40% more teachers in poor schools who lack the required qualifications than in the richest schools, an EdSource analysis found.

Across California, low-income students are more likely to have unqualified teachers, but what has been a longstanding problem of inequity between rich and poor schools may be showing progress. Among all schools statewide, the rate for unqualified teachers is lowest in the wealthiest schools and higher in the rest.  There are 40% more teachers in poor schools who lack the required qualifications than in... <span class="read-more"><a href="https://edsource.org/2022/poo...

Across California, low-income students are more likely to have unqualified teachers, but what has been a longstanding problem of inequity between rich and poor schools may be showing progress.

Schools have become the battleground in the cultural war over COVID-19.

On a Tuesday evening in May, third-grade teacher Clara Yanez and second-grade teacher Jackie Gonzalez stood in front of their board of education and asked them to count little plastic

School districts are finally back in session after a rollercoaster of closing and reopening last year. However, during this comeback, the pandemic has caused staffing shortages across Kern County schools.

Students Without Masks Can’t Be Kept Out of Classrooms, Educators Say Students can’t be banned from school campuses for refusing to wear a mask during the upcoming curricular year, educational leaders say. “The state wants to continue the mask mandate, but there’s no way to enforce it,” San Ardo Union Elementary School District Superintendent Catherine Reimer told The Epoch Times. “For school districts, we have something in the education code that you used to be able to suspend or...