California’s State Board of Education (SBE) is rolling out new kindergarten through eighth grade teaching assistants: ...

In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked ...

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand language assistance and election services to immigrants who don’t speak English fluently, but a group representing voter registrars ...

Flags over the California Capitol in Sacramento. Courtesy of Sen. Toni Atkins’ office A new report from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on the mental health impact of parenting is the latest call to ...

California education officials are moving ahead to revamp the state’s English-language development standards so that they are aligned with the academic demands of the common-core standards in ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Governor Newsom has been pushing a New California Model in state prisons since April 2023, and one of the changes is with the language. Through a public records request, ...

The root of my fascination with Indigenous languages can be traced to a rock band from Finland my brother listened to called HIM. When 12-year-old me heard them being interviewed in Finnish, I found ...

California has the most registered voters of any U.S. state: 20.9 million. But getting those voters to the polls on Election Day has been a challenge. California has a history of low voter turnout.

From the top of Signal Hill, Los Angeles disappears in the haze. Gauzy light smudges details, so that only the mountains, the sea and the land in between remain. No freeways; no homes, high-rises or ...

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