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This story was originally published on EdSource. After taking a break from social media, Orange County student Elise Choi helped write a bill that would mandate California schools teach digital wellness — a response to growing concerns about how technology is affecting students’ mental health. Assembly Bill 2071 would require California schools to include digital...

This story was originally published on EdSource. With contract negotiations between the Los Angeles School District and three unions coming down to the wire, the district’s 400,000 students and their families didn’t know when they went to sleep Monday night whether there would be school Tuesday morning. In the end, school is open this week...

Hazel Health, which once described itself as “the largest K-12 mental and physical health provider in the nation,” faces an uncertain future after enduring two rounds of layoffs since last fall and the loss of several lucrative contracts with school districts. In February, the telehealth company let go of 135 staff members, including clinicians who...

Class is in session for roughly 400,000 Los Angeles Unified students after a historic three-union strike involving 70,000 teachers, administrators and school support staff was averted early Tuesday morning. The Los Angeles Unified School District and Service Employees International Union Local 99 reached a tentative agreement around 2 a.m. Tuesday Pacific Time.  United Teachers Los...

For the last nine years, we have presented an alternative Social Mobility Tournament bracket that plots the colleges invited to the men’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament by how well they help place their graduates on the path to upward mobility. Now, for the third time, we are pleased to do the same for the...

Two new reports caution that if schools make missteps implementing AI, the results could haunt them for years, locking them into a future largely written by big tech instead of those closest to kids. The reports, both the results of small, intensive gatherings of educators, policymakers, researchers, tech officials and students last year, share a...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A Southern California school district agreed to sweeping reforms Friday in settling a state attorney general investigation into how it handled allegations staff sexually abused students.    The wide-ranging stipulated judgment with the El Monte Union High School District draws to a close an...

Children whose caretakers are detained or deported face not only the loss of their loved ones, but, oftentimes, removal from their homes and schools — abrupt upheavals that can land them in one of many places. Some, freshly pressed passports in hand, end up in their parents’ country of origin — even when it’s not...

We adults are perennially susceptible to panicking about the health and safety of “kids today.” From the alleged perils of mass access to film in the early 1900s to early 1990s nerves over hip hop to today’s anxieties about smartphones and social media, we’re pretty much always finding reasons to collectively worry about American youth. ...

This story was co-published with Mother Jones.  Updated March 27, 2026: In response to this story, YouTube terminated six channels for violating the platform’s terms of service and one channel for violating its spam policy. In a video that has been played almost 50,000 times since it was posted five months ago, two cartoon children sing...