Tagged With "CA"
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Disaster Days: How Megafires, Guns and Other 21st Century Crises are Disrupting CA Schools [capradio.org]
By Ricardo Cano, CalMatters, September 17, 2019 Each year, millions of Californians send their children to public K-12 classrooms, assuming that, from around Labor Day to early summer, there will be one given: A school day on a district’s calendar will mean a day of instruction in school. But that fixed point is changing, according to a CalMatters analysis of public school closures. From massive wildfires to mass shooting threats to dilapidated classrooms, the 21st century is disrupting...
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Victory in the Form of a Proclamation: Porterville City Council Passes First Proclamation Supporting LGBTQ+ Community [recorderonline.com]
By Alexis Espinoza, The Porterville Recorder, October 18, 2019 It was a historical night for the LGBTQ+ community in Porterville as the City Council passed the first ever proclamation that directly ties to the gay community. National Coming Out Day was brought to light under the Council’s discretion, and ultimately commemorated on paper with the National Coming Out Day proclamation. Brock Neely pushed the proclamation hard on the Council, and was upset when it didn’t appear on the agenda for...