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California has always been a hotbed of education organizing and reform. Catch up on efforts to fund the arts in public schools, the impact of COVID on students, college financial aid, ethnic studies curriculums and more.

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The LACMA9 Art+Film Lab, a traveling film and video workshop, cinema, and oral history project, sets up shop in Compton.
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Speakers working in education shed light on the complex case of providing every child equal access to quality education for a session at MOCA hosted by Arts for LA.
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The practice of community conferencing is derived from the Maori people in New Zealand. Locally, similar practices can empower youth and community with the knowledge that there is an alternative to the criminal justice system.
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The project is designed to be a mobile classroom that will roam Los Angeles in the hopes of sharing a little Los Angeles River information in a fun and informative way.
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In the Southeast Asian communities of Long Beach, Restorative Justice practices can help heal youths suffering from zero-tolerance policies in schools, as well as trauma from the legacy of the Cambodian genocide.
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In this world, vast harbors of conscience and compassion exist.
Assemblymember Lowenthal says early childhood education keeps California women working and children learning.
The group has outlined its budget priorities, and underscored the need for a budget that prioritizes working women and parents and the education of young children as a critical first step to closing the achievement gap.
Inside the Trash for Teaching warehouse. Photos by Lata Pandya
Located in Gardena, CA it is part classroom, part recycling center, it is all possibility and the permutations are endless.
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LACMA9 Art+Film Lab's continues its oral history collaboration with Self Help Graphics and L.A. photographer Rafael Cardenas in the city of Montebello.
Manhattan Place Elementary School class photo in 1964. | Photo: Courtesy Kris Aubry
Memories of grade school are usually warm and fuzzy. Except when they also tell a story of integration that never had a chance.
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Unusual Suspects brings people together from youth prisons, treatment centers, and L.A.'s most underserved schools and communities to implement theatre projects.
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The LACMA9 Art+Film Lab, a traveling film and video workshop, cinema, and oral history project, sets up shop in Hacienda Heights.
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