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Oct 15, 2024 | 
kcpr.org | Layla Shuman |Riya Parekh |Emmy Burrus
This is a cross-published piece with Mustang News, more information can be found here. Featuring community nonprofits, Piano in the Plaza and Art after DarkSkulls, witches and spiderwebs draped the dimly lit hallways of the Palm Theatre. Attendees in stylish costumes and dripping fake blood buzzed with excitement as they gathered for the kickoff of ARTober.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
edsource.org | John Fensterwald |Emily Garrison |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Riya Parekh
News Brief Thursday September 26, 2024 10:23 am More California schools are offering vegetarian lunch options, although the percentage of these options still remains low, according to a new report from the organization Friends of the Earth. The report, Plant-Based Trends in California’s School Lunches, found that in the state’s largest 25 school districts, the percentage of vegetarian menu options increased from just 7% of menu options in 2019 to 11% in 2023.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
edsource.org | John Fensterwald |Emily Garrison |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Riya Parekh
News Brief Thursday September 26, 2024 10:01 am Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required high schools to offer free condoms to students. As reported by Politico, the bill would have required high schools to provide condoms for students to take without going through staff, in at least two locations on campus, beginning in 2025. The bill also would have allowed public schools to make condoms available in public health programs beginning in seventh grade.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Riya Parekh |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg
News Brief Wednesday September 25, 2024 8:37 am A year after pandemic-era federal funding expired, a new report released today by the Century Foundation (TCF) reveals that the child care industry has experienced soaring prices, staffing shortages, and falling wages for early childhood educators.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Emily Garrison |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Riya Parekh |Amy DiPierro
News Brief Wednesday September 25, 2024 4:19 pm Some Sacramento foster youth may soon be eligible for a new guaranteed basic income program, according to reporting by CBS News. Youth aging out of the foster system would be eligible for the program. One such person may be Ignacio Taylor, a 19-year-old American River College student, as he recently aged out. He told CBS News: “A lot of the time, it’s beyond paying rent,” Taylor said.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Riya Parekh |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg
News Brief Wednesday September 25, 2024 8:37 am A survey of social studies teachers found that many use primarily online sources for lesson plans instead of textbooks, the New York Times reported, raising issues of bias. While most curriculum providers are not ideologically skewed, the report warned about “moralistic cues” in some left-leaning school districts, with lessons that led students toward viewing American history as a string of injustices.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Riya Parekh
I’ve disavowed potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, radish and beets. Growing up as a Jain, I never ate these root vegetables or had second thoughts about my faith and this practice. At home, my mom prepared authentic Jain Gujarati meals with rotli(flatbread), daal(lentil soup), bhaat (rice) andshaak (vegetable curry).We found Jain-friendly restaurants in the Bay Area, and while traveling abroad, we microwaved meals in our hotel room and carried ready-to-eat foods.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Riya Parekh |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg |Diana Lambert
News Brief Tuesday September 24, 2024 10:02 am Nine school districts, including five in California, are the latest to receive a News Literacy District Fellowship to design news and media literacy programs at their school. The two-year fellowship comes with a $20,000 grant and support for professional development and curriculum guidance from the News Literacy Project, according to a press release from the organization.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Riya Parekh |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg |Diana Lambert
News Brief Tuesday September 24, 2024 10:11 am University of California faculty associations filed a state labor complaint last week alleging that there has been a campaign of intimidation against faculty who took part in pro-Palestine protests earlier this year. The 581-page complaint to the state’s Public Employment Relations Board described a campaign of intimidation by UC leaders, including illegal surveillance of professors, according to the Sacramento Bee.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Riya Parekh |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg |Vani Sanganeria
News Brief Tuesday September 24, 2024 10:09 am The California Department of Health Care Services announced on Sep. 13 a $56 million grant to early childhood wellness organizations across 34 counties, marking the latest project under the five-year, $4.6 billion Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI).
