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As LAUSD Staff Workers Vote To Strike, They Remember Management Calling Them 'Heroes'

Members of the 15,000-member union that represents custodians, cafeteria workers, aides, and other employees at the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to go on strike after negotiations hit an impasse.

A custodian at Brainard Avenue Elementary in Lake View Terrace cleans a door handle on April 13, 2021, the campus' first day hosting students since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here's How You Can Influence Who Will Be The Next CSU Chancellor

A new California State University chancellor is expected to be selected by July. The chancellor is selected by university trustees, but the public does have some influence.

A man with a suit jacket holds a paper and talks at a microphone at a meeting of those sitting in a board room.

Long Beach City College Is Testing The Waters On Expanded Child Care

The on-campus pilot program includes homework help, music, and sports.

Three 14-year-old students sit at a table with drum pads and drum sticks in a music session at LBCC.

All This Trauma Is Adding Up. How A New Generation Is Finding Ways To Persevere And Find Hope

Students at East Los Angeles College held a vigil this week to honor the victims of a mass shooting in Monterey Park. They're focused on how to convert the trauma into a wake-up call.

A group gathers around a tree in a campus quad holding candles. The trees are uplit as it is evening and a brick column with a large E on it

Food, Shelter, Gas: How Long Beach City College Is Addressing Basic Needs For Students

The college's basic needs services started small in 2019 but is growing rapidly, setting an example for others in Southern California.

Two men and one young woman stand in the canned foods section of a food pantry, all wearing LBCC black sweatshirts and smiling.

How 4 Words Upended A University's Journalism Program, And Stirred A Reckoning Over Race

Anti-Latino slurs were published on the cover of a CSU student newspaper in October. The painful incident led to protests and soul searching at the mostly Latino campus.

Words in a white font, and black highlight that read "Mexican-American, Latinx, Indigenous, Boricua, D.R.E.A.M.E.R, Chicano/A, Hispanic" are placed in a spiral formation leading to four words that are illegible because they're covered by red blocks, as the spiral narrows towards the center the words "unsafe, defeated, mad, racist, and shocked" in red lettering lead to the end of the spiral which is becomes sharp like an arrow and pierces through the gray silhouette of student set against a red newspaper page that reads "Bulletin." The entire illustration is set against a dark gray background.

Jackie Goldberg Chosen As Next LA Unified Board President

Goldberg takes over for Kelly Gonez.

At Holocaust Museum LA, A Timeless Lesson That Schools Don't Always Teach

This museum helps students explore the connections between prejudice, anti-Semitism and the murder of more than six million Jewish people and so many others.

A group of Black and brown students stand with their backs to a glass display case that shows a miniature-scale concentration camp. The students wear red shirts, and are listening to a woman talk in front of large displays of people.

Where Oscar Gomez Died, Students Have Created An Altar And Vigil For The Anniversary Of The Chicano Activist's Death

The altar and the vigil signal a desire to learn more about the activism of students like them nearly 30 years ago.

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Detail of the altar, eagle feathers behind a black and white photo of two young men, one with a black beanie that says Xicano, the other with his fist raised.

UC Student Workers Go On Strike, Citing Living Expenses

Representatives for the student workers union says it’s common for members to pay more than half of their incomes on rent.

A large group of students walks along an outdoor path and carries signs protesting UCLA. In the foreground is a sign that says "strike shift check-in."

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