Education

For Littlest Dodgers Fans, Lessons In Winning, Losing And Family During Emotional Playoff Game

L.A. parents passing on Dodger fandom to the next generation and handling meltdowns and winning with grace.

Two kids wrapped in blue Dodgers paraphernalia wait for the start of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game during a sunny batting practice on Opening Day at a mostly empty Dodger Stadium in 2018.

Barbra Streisand Funds UCLA Institute To Study Social Issues

The institute will look at things like gender roles and power.

Barbra Streisand is shown onstage speaking into a microphone. She wears a long-sleeved black sequined gown and matching beret-style hat.

Nursing Apprenticeship Gives State Health Care Workers A Career Boost

Proponents of apprenticeship say the model can help California workers who lack the resources for outside training advance in their careers.

A man in a white uniform, bends over a hospital bed and examines a mannequin's arm. A woman stands next to the bed with her back to the camera. Her white uniform has the letters "RCC" on it.

California Approved Universal Pre-K And Higher Pay For Child Care Workers. But The Early Childhood System Still Needs Work

The view of one advocate? “I hear this mantra that the child care system is broken and I frankly would argue that it’s never been broken, it's just been severely underfunded.”

A classroom of students in early transitional kindergarten.

Newsom Vetoes A Game-Changing Cal Grants Expansion For College Students

The bill would have expanded eligibility to include another 150,000 low-income students.

A two-story high room as desks spread apart with banners hanging at the back reading: Student Union, LB and Student Affairs.

California Students Will Now Have To Take Ethnic Studies To Graduate High School

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 101 into law, requiring California high school students to take ethnic studies to graduate, starting with the class of 2030.

During the commencement ceremony at Belmont High School, an L.A. Unified School District campus near downtown, a graduating senior wears green robes and a mortarboard decorated with the words: "I wanted to give up but then I remembered who I was." She's standing on a football field next to other graduating students who are assembled at socially-distanced folding chairs.

An Apprenticeship Is A Money-Saving Path To Become A High-Paid Chef. Here's How It Works

The culinary apprenticeship sponsored by UNITE HERE Local 11 is among a new crop of apprenticeships that seek to provide stable, well-paying career pathways where students earn money as they learn.