By David Danelski A study by UC Riverside and USC education scholars found that Black and Latino teens report having significantly more digital literacy skills such as detecting online disinformation than their white peers—particularly content related to race and ethnicity. These youth are not only quicker to identify false claims and racist propaganda, but also ...

By Antonio Ray Harvey California Black Media On Jan. 1, Assembly Bill (AB) 422 — legislation authored by Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D–Moreno Valley) – takes effect. Signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October, the bill updates the criteria for the State Seal of Civic Engagement (SSCE), an official recognition awarded to high school students who ...

The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department) has had to conclude its Healthy Active Long Beach (HALB) program due to the recent passage of H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, which eliminated funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed), the nation’s largest nutrition education initiative. For ...

By Dianne Anderson Before the grades, first the goals. A small but powerful circle of dads is getting back to school for a safe space to share their own stories about tackling the tough challenges for kids and themselves, learning to advocate, and getting support from a system that usually keeps them out of the ...

By Dianne Anderson Big questions remain about what comes next following the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education’s 4–1 vote to approve layoffs for 262 certificated employees — including 198 teachers, 39 counselors, and other key support staff who work directly with students. District leaders say the cuts are driven by declining enrollment ...

Long Beach City College (LBCC) proudly announces the renaming of its Liberal Arts Campus Library to the Bobbie Smith Library, honoring the college’s first African American librarian and a lifelong education leader for literacy, equity, and justice. “Bobbie Smith devoted her life to education—not just as a profession, but as a calling. Her service on ...

By Charlene Crowell In the In the first 100 days of the current Trump Administration term, over 250,000 federal employees have had their jobs cut, planned to be cut, or have taken a buyout, according to a recent New York Times tally.  With a 46 percent staff reduction – 1,380 employees – the Department of Education is ...

By Dianne Anderson When it comes to helping Black and Brown students in the education system, political and economic PTSD rules the day. Ever since the Trump Administration’s chilling effect of threats of funding cuts, just the mere thought of helping Black students has a lot of people on edge, even those who would typically ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) abrupt and unlawful rescission of prior agency actions that preserved states’ access to hundreds of millions of dollars in funding currently being used by school districts to support the academic recovery of students following the COVID-19 pandemic. Attorney General Bonta ...

The U.S. Department of Education has announced the closure of seven of its 12 regional Office for Civil Rights (OCR) branches, including the San Francisco office that handles California’s federal civil rights complaints. The decision is part of a broader restructuring effort that will cut nearly half the department’s workforce, placing about 1,300 employees on ...