Stocktonia News Service

Stocktonia News Service is a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization focused on delivering thorough, ethical, and accurate news about Greater Stockton, California. It was founded in 2020 to address the significant gap in coverage of local events in Stockton and San Joaquin County. Our team adheres to the best journalism practices outlined by the Society of Professional Journalists and upholds high ethical standards in nonprofit management. Following two years of careful planning, we officially began our operations in June 2022.

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Districts still have learning recovery money: Why not spend it on tutoring?

3 days ago | stocktonia.org | John Fensterwald

A recent visit to Alpha: Cornerstone Academy, a TK-8 charter school in San Jose, offered a glimpse of high-impact tutoring. It was during the intervention period in third grade, when teacher specialists work in small groups. In one corner, four girls and a boy in their maroon Alpha school shirts sat around a horseshoe table, listening intently through earphones to their personal tutor from Ignite Reading, a growing Oakland-based public benefit corporation operating in 20 states.
Growers warn San Joaquin County's cherry harvest could be the pits

3 days ago | stocktonia.org | Chris Woodyard

San Joaquin County growers are finding nothing cheery about the cherry harvest that starts this month. Both the county and pretty much the entire San Joaquin Valley are expected to see crop totals that could be half the quantity of what would be seen in a banner year, said James Chinchiolo, first vice president of the San Joaquin County Farm Bureau Federation. “The volume is down.
Newsom’s call to ban homeless camps could push Stockton, San Joaquin County to crack down

4 days ago | stocktonia.org | Chris Woodyard

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday called for California cities and counties to ban homeless encampments, a move that could embolden Stockton and San Joaquin County to take stronger action to confront the issue. “There’s nothing compassionate about letting people die on the streets,” Newsom said in a statement.
Commentary: My mom’s love and her journalistic skepticism are inseparable

5 days ago | stocktonia.org | Joe Mathews

I first tried journalism when I was 6. My family was living in Beijing, and I handwrote a two-page newsletter for children and adults in the U.S. expat community. After I made a mistake, a veteran American journalist, then the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, took me aside and explained how important it was to double-check everything—especially those things of which you feel most certain.
More, but not enough, Californians accessing free money for college, career

6 days ago | stocktonia.org | Lasherica Thornton

The doors of the Golden 1 Credit Union remained ajar on April 5 as elementary-aged kids played games or had their faces painted outside while families inside circled the display tables featuring material from the bank and CalKIDS. The event was to encourage families to open a youth education savings account as well as learn about and claim at least $500 in free scholarship money already sitting in a state-funded account.
As city budget deadline looms, key Stockton financial positions remain unfilled

6 days ago | stocktonia.org | Aaron Leathley

With the deadline for presenting Stockton’s nearly $1 billion budget to the City Council and the public less than a week away, officials are working to fill five top positions in the city department that’s responsible for delivering the plan on time. It’s unlikely they can fill the positions, housed in the Administrative Services Department, by the May 15 deadline. The city has even hired contractors to cover some of the work.
California joins lawsuit against feds for withholding funding for EV charging stations

1 week ago | stocktonia.org | Alise Maripuu

California is suing the Federal Highway Administration for withholding funding designated for building electric vehicle charging stations, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday in Burlingame. The joint lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday with 16 other states, marks the 19th suit that California has brought against President Donald Trump’s administration since he took office in January.
Rep. Josh Harder pushes bipartisan caucus to focus on infrastructure, housing

1 week ago | stocktonia.org | Samuel Larreal

Some Democratic lawmakers say that cutting red tape for infrastructure and housing is the key to the party’s future — and they think a new bipartisan caucus launched by Rep. Josh Harder can help push it forward. The House Build America Caucus, which launched Thursday, builds off some Democrats’ interest in the ideas laid out in “Abundance,” a book by columnists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Some of the criticisms at the center of the book, Massachusetts Rep.
Trump’s budget would abolish funding for English learners, adult ed, teacher recruitment

1 week ago | stocktonia.org | John Fensterwald |Diana Lambert |Emma Gallegos |Zaidee Stavely

President Donald Trump would maintain funding levels for students with disabilities and for Title I aid for low-income students while wiping out long-standing programs serving migrant children, teachers in training, college-bound students, English learners and adult learners in the education budget for fiscal 2026.
How schools can help students facing homelessness get to class

1 week ago | stocktonia.org | Betty Marquez Rosales

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Este artículo está disponible en Español. Léelo en español. A quiet place to complete homework, free and stable transportation options, and not immediately being penalized for missed work are among the things that Te’yana Brown said could have helped her as she faced homelessness at different points between elementary and high school.