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Early Childhood Education
A man wearing a reflective yellow vest drives a car.
The annual homeless count is underway, but families remain hard to track
Last year, homelessness declined overall in the region, but not for families with children. And service providers say even that was an undercount.
California schools now offer a preschool grade for 4-year-olds. Here's how it's changing education
A small girl with medium skin tone opens the door to a classroom bathroom.
US drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child
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Amid fraud claims, Trump admin announces more changes to federal child care funding
A colorful pre-school classroom. Several toddlers are pictured sleeping on blue cots on the floor
Starting January, large insurers in California must cover fertility treatments like IVF
Employers are required to make accommodations for pregnant women and new moms like time off for doctor's appointments.

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A young child with a dark blue and red striped shirt plays with wooden activity toy atop a blue steel dolly.
Midwest promises new life to LA family living in car: 'We're willing to give California up'
As family housing resources shrink in L.A., one family has left what they know in California behind to start a life in the Midwest, where housing costs are vastly lower.
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California needs thousands of teachers for its preschool program. Here's what it's like to be one
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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'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.
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