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Early Childhood Education
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A dark skin-toned young girl writes letters on a whiteboard in the outdoor classroom of a home-based daycare in Hawthorne, California.
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A student with dark skin tone and brown hair in braids with pink beads spins in a chair-like toy on the playground.

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A woman in a black shirt and medium-tone skin pinky shakes a boy wearing a large gray backpack. A door shows different cartoon images of greetings like a hug, wave and fist pump.
California needs thousands of teachers for its preschool program. Here's what it's like to be one
Some teachers are making the switch from private preschools to transitional kindergarten. Others come from upper grades. Many are needed.
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California's childcare sector is already fragile. Can it survive the next natural disaster?
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A blue and white swing set with green swings. Half the ground on the left side is covered in sand. The right side is covered in green fake grass. There are three swings on the swing set, but only the middle and right hand one are in tact. The swing on the left has just chains and no swing seat. The chains look charred. Behind the swing set, a children's red plastic truck is semi-melted. A tangle of other plastic colorful toys are behind it. Branches and ash is strewn across the ground.
California has free preschool for 4-year-olds. Higher-income families are driving enrollment
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A student with light skin tone and black track pants and t-shirt picks up a wooden track. In the background, students with a variety of skin tones look at other parts of the track.
How an overloaded homelessness system left this LA family living in their car
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A pair of arms with light skin tone wrap around a small boy with light skin tone, who holds in his hands two toy cars. They sit on a bench next to a woman with light skin tone.
California schools now offer free preschool for 4-year-olds. Here's what kids really learn in it
Five small children laugh as they chase each other around a jungle gym, painted in primary colors.
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