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Bugs and ‘bubble breaths’: How new teacher training peers into the mind of a 4-year-old

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When California launched its historic expansion of public education in 2020 with the addition of a new grade level — TK, short for transitional kindergarten — a key component was missing: teacher training to understand how the 4-year-old brain learns.

Students scoff at a school cellphone ban. Until they really begin to think about it

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After the initial shock and an absolute “no” is voiced by many teenage students, more nuanced thoughts emerge: Maybe we are falling into social media and cellphone addiction. Maybe all the distractions and the obsession with “likes” are bad for us. Maybe we need some relief.

Powerful unions allege schools are misusing arts education money, demand state intervention

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In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials, Beutner and the unions claim that some school districts are taking funding, approved by voters in November 2022, to expand arts education and are using it for other purposes.

Teachers union drops support for LAUSD candidate, citing offensive social media activity

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The L.A. County Federation of Labor also has suspended campaign activities on behalf of Kahllid Al-Alim. The labor federation had reported spending no funds on his behalf, but its action—on behalf of the county’s union movement—is symbolically notable.

How mega-spending and alleged scandals could influence LAUSD school board elections

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As two leading Los Angeles school board candidates grapple with blows to their campaigns—antisemitic tweets for one and an investigation that temporarily removed another from her counseling job—outside groups continue to flood races with spending to win influence over the nation’s second-largest school system.

As teen suicide spikes, school policies may be making things worse

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Suicide has been a leading cause of death for young people for at least the last half-century. But in the early 2000s, those deaths began to surge and experts have struggled to explain why even as the age at which children kill themselves has been falling.

This California school board president has 2 DUIs and cusses. And, no, he’s not resigning

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Matthew Serafin, 31, was elected to the board of Val Verde Unified School District in 2016. He was arrested by Riverside County deputies Aug. 27 after he allegedly crashed into an unoccupied parked car

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