Araceli Huerta, community school coordinator at Sycamore Junior High School, aims to understand students’ lives outside of academia in order to help them achieve more. Photo by Robin Estrin.
California is spending billions revamping traditional public schools as community schools, which offer families more support. Questions about whether they improve academic results and enrollment remain.
The LA Auto show runs through Sunday, and these days, it’s all about electric vehicles. But have engineers worked out all the kinks in the technology?
David Levinson’s organization Big Sunday has distributed bags of food on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving for the last decade. It also organizes sing-a-longs, boat rides, and other events — year-round.
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California is spending billions revamping traditional public schools as community schools, which offer families more support. Questions about oversight remain.
8 min
The LA Auto show runs through Sunday, and these days, it’s all about electric vehicles. But have engineers worked out all the kinks in the technology?
8 min
David Levinson’s organization Big Sunday has distributed bags of food on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving for the last decade. It also organizes sing-a-longs, boat rides,…
7 min
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