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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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Built in 1930 in Glassell Park, adjacent to the Fletcher Drive rail overpass, the Van de Kamp's Bakery's building served as headquarters for the chain of…
 Production still from "Have You Noticed How Much Junk Food We Eat? " High School Students Lilybeth Hernandez and Damaris Vega from the East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy (ELARA).
Proyecto MercadoFRESCO is trying to shift the cultural perception of the corner store from public health blight to community resource.
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These kinds of people, they reside in the places that last. In our character. In our choices. In our minds and our hearts.
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This week is Screen-Free Week, an annual effort by children's advocates to get kids free from the grip of electronic devices, even if only for a few days.
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The educator and activist who played a major role in the East L.A. blowouts died peacefully earlier this month.
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Southern California's landscape provided the setting for three critical court cases that reveal the ability of the law to cleave efforts toward equal rights.
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In Los Angeles County, children who are of color and low income disproportionately live in the areas with the highest levels of obesity and the worst access to parks and schools fields.
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Grant Elementary has a passionate group of environmentalist parent volunteers called the Green Geckos.
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He admonished what he perceives as timidity on the part of Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel, the two mayoral candidates in the May 21 election.
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In these graduating times, cause for celebration and remembering: smeary handprints won't forever stay messy or small.
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This week L.A. Letters shows the kindred ideas of three generations of women thinkers over the last 150 years.
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Amid violence, poverty, and discrimination, girls around the world strive to receive an education. Filmmaker Richard Robbins captured the stories of nine of them.
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