May 2022

By Raya Torres, Megan Tagami, Lauren Berny, et al., Image: Presley Shum screenshots, EdSource, May 10, 2022 S ince the Columbine school shooting in 1999 , more than 292,000 students have faced gun violence in their schools. As of April 2022, there have been 23 school shootings in the U.S. this year, according to Education Week’s school shooting tracker . With the recent introduction of California bills such as SB 906, requiring parents to disclose their possession of firearms at home,...

By John Fensterwald, Photo: Allison Shelley/Eduimages, EdSource, May 12, 2022 N ext week, California will jumpstart a seven-year initiative to convert potentially thousands of schools into full-servic e, parent-focused co mmunity schools. Approved a year ago by the Legislature, the $3 billion California Community Schools Partnership Program will be the nation’s most ambitious effort to create schools serving multiple health and learning needs of children. Community schools have come to be...

PACEs Connection and the Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative, a project of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) have developed two new resources, “Community Strategies to Address California’s Digital Divide and Its Impact on Children and Families” Report and the “Digital Divide Brief: Community Strategies to Address California’s Digital Divide and Its Impact on Children and Families”

By Larry Gordon, Photo: Larry Gordon/EdSource, EdSource, May 16, 2022 T he University of Texas at San Antonio’s graduation rates were in the deep basement a decade ago. Only 1 in 10 students finished in four years and just 3 in 10 in six years. But things have dramatically improved since then at the majority-Latino school, whose main campus is located 15 miles north of downtown’s tourist attractions. Not only are more students graduating faster but, in a reversal from national patterns,...

By Elizabeth Cripps, Illustration: Happy Pictures/Adobe Stock, Yes!, May 5, 2022 W hatever justice may positively require, it does not permit that poor nations be told to sell their blankets in order that the rich nations may keep their jewellery. — Henry Shue, 1992 On June 11, 2001, President George W. Bush refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty on climate change. Standing against lavish greenery and an American flag, he announced that the United States wouldn’t be...

By Brianna Vaccari, Image: Screenshot from article, Fresno Bee, May 7, 2022 Fresno Unified officials on Friday made a number of commitments to hundreds of students who marched from Edison High School to downtown Fresno to protest racism in schools. The protest and commitments from district officials were sparked by new reports of students at Edison and Bullard high schools demonstrating racist behavior and circulating images on social media. Students at Bullard and Edison walked out of class...

By Christopher Nellum, Photo: Alison Yin/EdSource, EdSource, May 15, 2022 F rom teaching at higher education institutions to my current role leading an educational justice organization, one truth has remained crystal clear to me throughout my career: There can be no education without educators. The faculty and staff of the California Community Colleges prove this daily. Each year, the community college system’s Hayward Award recognizes faculty members driving excellence in service of...

The EfC Initiative would like to share two resources developed by Safe & Sound , an organization dedicated to strengthening families and ending child abuse, that may be of interest to you in your work. The Economics of Child Abuse Report has been updated to share the economic impact of child maltreatment and estimates that California's communities incurred $22.6 billion in economic impacts due to child maltreatment in 2021. Explore this interactive tool to learn the economic impact of...