Conditions of Children
A new report from WestEd, Revisiting California’s Invisible Achievement Gap: Trends in Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in the Context of the Local Control Funding Formula, highlights the persistent disparities that young people in the foster care system face while in school.
Results of a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 shows that girls and boys across the U.S. face different societal pressures and have different experiences at school but want the same things out of life. Released on March 13, the […]
Physical and mental health issues can affect children’s ability to succeed at school. Among low-income children with special healthcare needs, about 85 percent do not receive the medical care they require, primarily due to financial constraints and limited access. School-based healthcare services help to fill […]
Even as federal pandemic relief funding runs out, education leaders will need to continue to act on strategies that are working to address learning recovery and students’ social- emotional needs post-pandemic, according to panelists at EdSource’s March 27 webinar, “Five years after COVID: Innovations that are driving result.”
Students experiencing homelessness miss school at nearly twice the rate of their peers, but school districts across the country are implementing strategies that are reducing chronic absence rates, according to a new report from SchoolHouse Connection and Attendance Works. Through a series of case studies, […]
Seven percent of the nearly 1.7 million Medi-Cal members aged 0-20 who were screened for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) between Jan. 1, 2020, and March 31, 2024, had an ACE score of four or more, according to a recent report.
In California, the number of IDEA-eligible school-age individuals changed 4.2 percent from 758,272 in 2022 to 790,465 in 2023.
SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan updated data profiles on child and youth homelessness in January to include four years of federal homelessness data, as well as state-, county-, local educational agency-, U.S. Congressional district- and state legislative district-level data. New […]
Butte County Office of Education’s use of trauma-informed arts educators following the Camp Fire can be duplicated in local educational agencies across the state to support student well-being.
Foster youth in California face an array of systemic barriers that often interfere with their educational success. The UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools recently released a report, Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in […]
