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School district challenges pile up
Adults and children walk around Cleveland Elementary School on the last day of school, May 27, 2021 in Oakland. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
California is on track to notch a nearly record-breaking number of teacher retirements this year but the tsunami is barely registering as a ripple in many school districts, partly because a record amount of students are also dropping out of public school, CalMatters’ Eli Wolfe reports. But other challenges loom: Many districts are scrambling to find enough teachers to staff summer school sessions, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to hire for positions that were already hard to fill before the pandemic, such as special education teachers. Meanwhile, many educators feel ill-equipped to handle the mental health challenges and trauma that students will likely bring into the cl
Mending California’s coronavirus-ravaged economy and fixing a state unemployment agency that is at the center of a titanic fraud case that could exceed $2.