Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday urged all California schools to reopen, emphasizing that there are no state or health barriers to getting children back into classrooms and ending distance learning. His ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The state of California released new guidelines Tuesday to lay the groundwork for reopening dine-in restaurants, shopping malls and office buildings as part of Phase 2 of reopening ...

By the ninth month following a school reopening, children's probability of being diagnosed with a mental health condition was reduced by 43% compared with the period before schools reopened. This ...

The Republican "HEALS Act" dedicates $70 billion toward K-12 education, but schools without in-person instruction wouldn't be eligible for most of it.

Students who returned to in-person school during the Covid-19 pandemic saw significantly lower rates of mental health diagnoses, including anxiety, depression and ADHD, according to a new study by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting proposed legislation on Monday that would require California public schools to reopen "in most cases during the pandemic" when case counts go down.

The mental health impact of the closing schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a subject of wide-ranging public discourse and research for years. Now, a new large-scale study shows that ...

School closures led to a 25% increase in mental health diagnoses and a 30.5% rise in related costs among children. Post-reopening, mental health diagnoses decreased, with notable reductions in ...