I'm going to start work any day on a story about the so-called achievement gap that exists between poorer students, who usually (though not always) are racial or ethnic minorities, and students who generally are from of high-income white families. While there are often specific exceptions, that's pretty much how [...]
English language workshops about getting into college and the college application process Spanish language workshops about the college application process. Informacion en Espanol sobre el proceso para entrar universidad, el camino a la universidad.
I'll be on KBBF 89.1, the nation's first bilingual radio station, Thursday night to talk about education. Really, though, I'm most interested in listening -- to what people have to say about education in the North Bay and what they want to see covered. I go on at about 6 [...]
The annual California truancy report in has been released by Attorney General Kamala Harris's office. Here's a link. https://oag.ca.gov/truancy/2015. It focuses on truancy at the elementary school level -- students who had three or more unexcused absences -- the societal impact of truancy and what it costs counties in state [...]
In about 20 minutes, state Attorney General Kamala Harris is going to release her office's third annual elementary school truancy and chronic absenteeism in California report in about 20 minutes. She'll do that at a press event at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. An announcement of the event [...]