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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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Students from a South L.A. tech academy took an interactive field trip an international ad agency to learn about the different jobs available in the industry.
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The traveling educational endeavor LACMA9 Art + Film Lab traveled across SoCal offering filmmaking workshops, gathering oral histories, and providing free events to the public.
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Orange County may be home to the third largest Asian American population in the U.S.
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I am a computer science teacher, but a significant portion of my curriculum is not just focused on coding and app and web development. I am trying to teach my students hustle; I am trying to teach my students to write cover letters, emails, and resumes...
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Phones can be the revolutionary tool that we need to transform the way we connect to each other, inside and outside the classroom.
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The LACMA9 Art+Film Lab, a traveling film and video workshop, cinema, and oral history project, reflects on their time in Inglewood.
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In order to keep abreast of trends in the workplace, I constantly ask for feedback from professionals and invite them into my classroom.
Teaching Artist Leah Padow's visual arts class at Playa del Rey Elementary; Photo generously taken by Alex de Cordoba | Courtesy of P.S. Arts
For underserved communities in SoCal, an increasing number of non-profit organizations provide much-needed arts education for public-school children.
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A bill is on its way to the governor's desk after having been passed by the senate today.
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The 2010 Parent Trigger controversy provides a valuable window into the city's education history, the evolution of its Latino-African American relations, and the new political reality of today's "City of Compton."
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The intensifying race between George McKenna and Alex Johnson has become a study in negative campaigning.
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Better education and air quality, as well as not splitting up the state are what I want to see for the future of California.
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