1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (310+ words) As I've visited classrooms in the last few years, I've heard something that I rarely heard prior to the COVID pandemic: silence. The deafening silence of students sitting side by side, hoodies up, headphones on, eyes focused on screens. That's…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1257+ words) By Andrew Jones, KFF Health News Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (620+ words) When Rosemead High School English teacher Stacy Lim returned from parental leave after the birth of her son, breastfeeding became a constant stressor alongside balancing her teaching duties. Initially, she began pumping breastmilk in her classroom during breaks, but the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (311+ words) This was no typical lunch time for San Gabriel and Rosemead high school students on Thursday, Feb. 5. In fact, it was really about the First Amendment and a national uproar. At 12: 08 p. m. , students at Gabrielino, Rosemead and Del Mar high schools…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (661+ words) Aggressive immigration practices, including detention, deportation, and workplace raids are causing widespread emotional trauma among children. So says a study by a team of mental health professionals at UC Riverside's School of Medicine. The report, published July 25 in Psychiatric News,…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (579+ words) When Rialto Unified school board member Edgar Montes apologized recently for his "inadvertent" vote to hire his mother for a district job, in violation of board bylaws, he neglected to mention that he had done it before. The issue first…...