by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“Safety is key,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom in a press conference the morning of December 30, 2020, about starting to reopen California schools in the near future. “Just reopening a school for in-person instruction on its own is not going to address the...
by Supporting Education | Nov 4, 2019 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Certain parts of the way we operate schools in America are embedded in tradition. Our parents did it one way, so they want to perpetuate that, even in the face of changing cultural needs or scientific proof that a change may be in order. Frog dissections. Football...
by Sarah Green | Mar 15, 2017 | News, Teacher Issues
California is facing a drastic teacher shortage. According to a survey of 211 school districts in that state, 75 percent reported having a shortage of qualified teachers for the 2016-17 school year. Eighty percent said the shortages have gotten worse since the 2013-14...
by Sarah Green | Dec 16, 2016 | News, Student Issues
The yearbook is an iconic part of the high school experience. Many schools have year-round yearbook clubs, staffed by students, building content to be published. They take pictures, write blurbs and short essays about their school, and decide what will be immortalized...
by Sarah Green | Aug 21, 2015 | News
A year ago, students at Enadia Way Elementary School were afraid that their garden, 10,000 square feet of flowers, fruit trees, and vegetables, was going to be a casualty of the drought currently wreaking havoc in Southern California. Since 2009 when the garden began...
