
Zaidee Stavely
Reporter at EdSource
Immigration and education reporter @EdSource. Host of Education Beat podcast
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1 week ago |
edsource.org | Zaidee Stavely
May 29, 2025Students from low-income families and English learners are automatically awarded $500 for college or career training through a California program. Foster youth and homeless students get another $500 on top of that. But students, or their parents or guardians, have to claim the money. And many families are unaware of this program. How do you find out if you have money waiting for you? What is California doing to try to get more students to claim their accounts?
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1 week ago |
laist.com | Zaidee Stavely
Read on... for responses and concerns to the proposed cuts to Medi-Cal. Why now: Faced with a deficit, Newsom is proposing to freeze new enrollment in Medi-Cal for undocumented immigrant adults and charge current undocumented enrollees a $100 monthly premium starting in 2027.
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2 weeks ago |
edsource.org | Zaidee Stavely
A family gets information at Fort Miller Middle School’s Health and Wellness Fair in Fresno. Photo courtesy of Eric Calderon-PhangrathChildren’s health advocates are sounding alarm bells about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to freeze public health insurance enrollment for undocumented adults. They say the move will put those adults’ children at risk of poor health care and well-being.
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2 weeks ago |
edsource.org | Zaidee Stavely
PODCASTS > Education Beat EdSource · Pasadena schools get help for students coping with trauma of Eaton FireMay 22, 2025When the Eaton Fire burned through parts of Los Angeles County this January, it destroyed thousands of homes. The hardest-hit district was Pasadena Unified School District, where around 10,000 students out of the district’s 14,000 were displaced.
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3 weeks ago |
stocktonia.org | John Fensterwald |Diana Lambert |Emma Gallegos |Amy DiPierro |Diana Lambert |Karen D'Souza | +3 more
TK-12 schools and community colleges can expect the same funding in 2025-26 that they received this year, plus a small cost-of-living adjustment, and there will be a big boost for early literacy, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed Wednesday in the revision to his January state budget plan.
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