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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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YoungArtsLA
YoungArts L.A is dedicated to furthering the artistic pursuits of some of the most talented teens in the Los Angeles.
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Being human isn't about achieving perfection, it's about running aground.
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I am a preschool teacher for the last twenty years at Kedren Head Start. I am a bilingual teacher, I love to work with the kids.
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The LACMA9 Art+Film Lab, a traveling film and video workshop, cinema, and oral history project, sets up shop in Monterey Park.
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The critics have the right to their words. They just don't have the right to take the words out of your hands.
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As the number of Dia de los Muertos events grows is there a danger of its history and meaning being lost.
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Mike Rose is a big advocate of educating adults so they take their rightful place in the American experiment. 
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This week L.A. Letters celebrates the spirit of collaboration and a few local ambassadors doing interdisciplinary work uniting poetry, performance, theater, education, and activism.
LACMA's mobile educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, reports on their first city run in Redlands.
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LACMA's new educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, is a traveling interactive installation/event and community space that will visit nine SoCal communities over a 16 month period.
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Students who attended summer school ended the summer with vocabulary skills much closer to their grade level, increasing their instructional grade level by over 1/3 of a grade.
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California is showing no improvement for overall children's well-being. For the second consecutive year, the Golden State ranks 41st in the nation in the annual Kids Count report.
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