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In some districts, teachers are taking more sick days since the pandemic. A shortage of substitutes can make matters worse.
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Rebuild California Town Hall
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More than 150 community members turned out to demand the Santa Barbara Unified School District listen to teachers’ calls for fair pay during a school board meeting on Oct. 4, the Santa Barbara Independent reported.
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The September ritual that started this week for high school senior Sydney Cagnetta and thousands of others on opening day is an annual renewal of a time for hope, possibility and new beginnings.
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Average teacher pay in California rose. Some school districts in Sacramento area saw increases up to 10%. Highest-paid in Silicon Valley.
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As schools and parents contend with uncomfortable and increasingly unavoidable truths about persistent learning loss, new data out Thursday points to a key source of the problem: Scores of students have in recent years missed so much school that catching up seems nearly impossible.
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A teacher shared a video on TikTok where he gives his elementary school-aged class '90s trivia questions. Only one student gets one question correct.
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In times of crisis, we should be looking for ways to help, not hinder. But in California, the inequities in public school education funding are only deepening the crisis for too many students.
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