Lizette Valles: Courage is needed to reshape education in California
I’ll be honest—I never planned to homeschool. My son was at a great private school. We loved his teachers. Then the pandemic hit, and suddenly my five years old was…
CAPA students walked out to protest the school’s dress code enforcement
Listen to article • 0:00 minMore than 75 students walked out of the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts on Monday, protesting dress code enforcement last week…
Sacramento Snapshot: Sylvia Mendez could get her own holiday in California
A Westminster park bears the name of Sylvia Mendez, whose family was behind a landmark civil rights court case after she and her brothers were denied entry to a school…
Learn from NYC kids’ savings plan
Earlier this year, the federal government opened up applications for “Trump Accounts” or 530A accounts to children nationwide. With economic mobility increasingly out of reach for so many, efforts to…
JOHNSON: Kylie Jenner among most common plastic surgery reference pics
A lot of eyes are on Kylie Jenner, who is currently splashed across the cover of Vanity Fair with her face, breasts and derriere on full display. Plastic surgeons all…
Don’t count out leaders with dyslexia
Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been repeatedly mocked for being dyslexic by the president. These are cheap shots, but they are also something more troubling: an entrenched and damaging assumption…
A transgender teen’s case in Ecuador opens path for others seeking legal recognition
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Her name translates from Spanish as “beloved.” “We decided to call her ‘Amada’ because she came into our home to be cherished,” said Lorena Bonilla, whose…
Pope urges young people to resist temptation of corruption in big Mass in Cameroon
By NICOLE WINFIELD DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Pope Leo XIV urged Cameroon’s young people on Friday to resist the temptation of corruption and instead work to serve the common good…
School arts instruction needs help now
For someone who spends as much time as I do inside New York’s public schools, there may be nothing more uplifting than walking into a children’s arts class. There’s an…
On North Broad, a job placement program offers ‘third, fourth — however many chances’
Listen to article • 0:00 minIn a perfect world, no one would need a second chance. Our lives would be on rails with the terminus at success. But in a…