A Sept. 15 webinar, “Investing in Mental Health,” hosted by the California Department of Education, covered topics including how interagency collaboration can help schools with mental health services, building a school-based metal health workforce, measuring the impact of current investments, and initiatives that are taking […]
On Sept. 15, a day after defeating a recall election, Gov. Gavin Newsom made his way to a TK-8 campus in Oakland — mingling with young learners and announcing that most school districts are reporting that 95 to 100 percent of students are once again […]
As local educational agencies work to comply with the state’s vaccination verification order for school workers by Oct. 15, the California Association of School Business Officials and law firm Lozano Smith hosted a webinar on hot topics surrounding the situation. Clarification on the order itself […]
“It’s clear that it is harder to be a school trustee now than it ever has been before,” CSBA CEO & Executive Director Vernon M. Billy said during the association’s Sept. 13 webinar, “Governing in a Time of Chaos: Board Meetings in the age of […]
Dr. Naomi Bardach, team lead for California Safe Schools for All, gave an update on the status of COVID-19 in the state as well as lessons learned this back-to-school season during the CSBA webinar “Governing in a Time of Chaos: Board Meetings in the age […]
To mask or not to mask has been a controversial topic for months as the pandemic picks up once again. By now, residents of the Golden State know that the California Department of Public Health is requiring masks to be worn while indoors at K-12 […]
A public health crisis in and of itself, the precarious mental health of young people in the United States has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a July report by Mental Health America, Addressing The Youth Mental Health Crisis: The Urgent Need […]
CSBA recently hosted a webinar focused on keeping students safe as they return to campuses using layered mitigation methods like regular testing for COVID-19 and effective air filtration. The Aug. 19 event featured presenters from CSBA partner Maclean Health as well as AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, […]
Education leaders should spend the first few weeks of the fall semester encouraging attachments in their respective communities, according to California State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond. During an Aug. 10 conversation with Public Policy Institute of California President Mark Baldassare on the start […]
As K-12 campuses across the nation begin to welcome students back, some for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, the Biden administration on Aug. 5 announced four new efforts it is taking to vaccinate more eligible young people and keep school communities […]
