Solving California's early literacy crisis is a social justice imperative
California must pass a comprehensive literacy policy agenda based on the science of reading to ensure all children can become proficient.
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California must pass a comprehensive literacy policy agenda based on the science of reading to ensure all children can become proficient.
Cruz Skinner, a fourth-grader at Schallenberger Elementary, took first place with her spin on her great-grandmother's corn fritter recipe.
For long-term and lasting solutions, we must attract more young people to enter the teaching profession and give them the training and support they need to succeed.
Many California parents dreaded returning to remote learning last fall, but they did it anyway, holding onto hopes of going back to campus at some point during the school year. But for those whose children were just entering kindergarten, the decision to commit to distance learning was a far tougher choice: Wrangling a 5-year-old in front of a computer screen for several hours a day requires constant supervision, technical assistance and cajoling, an impossibility for many working parents, particularly essential workers and those juggling multiple children. Faced with the rigors of distance l...