Blog posts -- Education

Watch this CNN video  with an update about the trauma informed schools lawsuit with the Compton Unified School District. Re-posted from Los Angeles County ACEs Connection Group from LA Trauma-Informed Task Force member,  K-Rahn Vallatine, Live Above The Hype.

Unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America are still arriving to live with family members or guardians in communities across California, while they wait for their court dates to find out if they can stay in this country. In fact, the numbers of children being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border has more than doubled in October and November  compared with a year ago. In California, Los Angeles County has the largest number of these kids, and Alameda County is...

School suspension rates have fallen in California for students of every ethnicity in the last three years, a sign that a shift in discipline practices in many school districts is starting to have an effect, according to a study released Monday...

The Mill Valley Film Festival will be screening the documentary, Paper Tigers , twice: -- Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 5:50 pm in the Cinearts Sequoia Theater in Mill Valley. -- Friday, Oct. 16, at 3 pm at the Lark Theater in Larkspur. Click here for tickets....

When students show up for an appointment at the Elsie Allen Health Center, which is located on the Elsie Allen High School campus in Santa Rosa, CA, one of the first things they do is take an ACE survey. Instead of answering the 10-question survey developed for the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study), they respond to 16 questions. That’s because the questionnaire was designed by the clinic staff to address the kinds of experiences – such as...

If youve got some time on you r hands and a yearning for school district data, check out a new tool announced Monday by the California Department of Education that tracks how well districts and schools have done from 2012 to 2014 in three ...

"The C alif ornia School-B ase d Health Alliance (CSHA) received a $2 million grant July 14 from The San Francisco Foundation to support trauma-informed care in 15 school-based health centers in Oakland Public Schools. The grant will...

Taking aim at the effect of hunger on students ability to learn, two California legislators announced Tuesday a bill that would require more schools to provide breakfast after the start of school. The proposed legislation would revamp...

In my 12-plus years as an urban superintendent in California, parents often spent more time talking to me about school safety than about teaching and learning. Perhaps thats just common-sense recognition that the latter cant take...