By Marissa Ortega-Welch and Angela Johnston, KALW/Crosscurrents Public health nurse Diep Tran thought she would be out of her job by now. “Our plan was for lead poisoning to be gone, eradicated by 2010, and yet we are still getting too many cases,” she says. This is the woman who manages all the severe lead […]
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Here’s the Data Facebook Has on Users and How the Company Gathers It
By Sam Harnett, KQED News/The California Report Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in apology mode over how Facebook profile data was used in the 2016 election. Wednesday night on CNN, Zuckerberg said the company was not on top of data security like it should have been. Here’s what happened. Facebook has tons and tons of […]
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California Tops in Suspension Reform, but Still not Properly Targeting Disparities: Report
By David Washburn, EdSource California in recent years has arguably become the best state in the nation at holding school districts accountable for their suspension rates — but a number of districts are still lagging considerably when it comes to addressing suspension disparities among specific groups of students and supporting alternatives to traditional discipline, according […]
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Climate’s Day in Court: Maybe Not the Great Debate, But Still a ‘Big Deal’
By Craig Miller, KQED News Fix The spotlight will be on a San Francisco courtroom Wednesday, when climate science finally gets its day in court. The cities of Oakland and San Francisco are suing several oil companies for the costs of adapting to climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels that threaten to flood […]
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Public Press Weekly: A Look on the Bright Side of S.F.
A San Francisco blogger has many nice things to say about living in San Francisco and, despite problems, this city does have a lot going for it.
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Oakland Unified Initiative for African-American Girls Follows Years of Focus on the Boys
By Lee Romney, EdSource Ever since the Oakland Unified School District launched its African-American Male Achievement office eight years ago people have been asking, “What about the girls?” Among them were community leaders like Nzingha Dugas, who under contract to the district for many years ran academic enrichment programs and a basketball league that she […]
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State Looking to Require Cities to Plan for Rising Seas
California officials are taking their first, tentative steps toward requiring cities to plan for severe sea level rise that scientists now say could conceivably elevate high tides by up to 22 feet by the middle of the next century. A state-funded study recommends that local planners adopt a risk-averse approach to permitting developments such as hospitals and housing in areas that have even little chance of flooding in the coming decades.
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How California Went From Anti-Immigration to ‘Sanctuary State’
By Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED/CALmatters Amparo Cid traces her work as an attorney helping recent immigrants and their families in the Central Valley fight injustices and potential deportation to her experience as a child in 1994. That was when California voters passed Proposition 187, an initiative that denied undocumented immigrants access to publicly funded services. […]
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Lessons in How to Manage California’s Groundwater
By Matt Weiser, KQED News Fix/Water Deeply California is well behind the curve on groundwater regulation. With a few exceptions, groundwater extraction has never been regulated in the state or even monitored with any precision. However, a 2014 law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, at last will require groundwater basins in the state to reverse […]
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Teacher Shortage, Lack of Supplies Hinder Rollout of New Science Standards, Report Finds
By Carolyn Jones, EdSource Most teachers are embracing California’s new science standards, but the rollout has been hampered by teacher shortages, lackluster elementary science education, lack of supplies and other obstacles, according to a new report. The report by the Public Policy Institute of California surveyed 204 school districts across California at the end of […]