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Apply for City of Tracy Youth Internships

04/04/2025

Applications are open for the City of Tracy Mayor’s Summer Youth Internship Program.

Lodi Unified School District No Cellphone Policy

04/04/2025

A report on the experiences of Lodi Unified School District student leaders who participated in a no cellphone challenge.

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Greetings from San Benito County

In Hollister, a nonprofit newsroom keeps local residents apprised of momentous changes.

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Digital NEST Marks 10 Years of Training the Next Generation of Tech Leaders.

For the season of giving, Jacob Martinez and his team at Digital NEST had an idea: If the nonprofit that provides career skills to youth could garner 100 donations, Martinez would get his first tattoo on his upcoming birthday.

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Central Valley Struggles to Produce College Grads; Key Programs Are Turning That Around

A NEW REPORT delivers bad and good news for the Central Valley.The bad news: The vast majority of parents, 79%, want their children to get a bachelor’s degree, but just 26% of students in the region are on pace to …

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E. Coli Found in Davis Elementary School Water Supply; Water Fountains, Sinks Closed

Water fountains and sinks will remain closed until further notice at Davis Elementary School in Stockton after testing showed E. coli bacteria present in the water on campus, school officials announced this week. 

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Student Protestor Voices on Israel-Gaza-Palestine

In this field-produced, bonus episode, the Moment of Truth team interviews pro-Palestinian, student protestors and campers at encampments at UCSC‘s Quarry Plaza, and at Stanford University, in the courtyard in front of the Stanford campus bookstore—one of the longest-lived encampments …

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California State Parks Foundation Calls on the Legislature to Restore Library Parks Pass Funding

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California State Parks Foundation responded to Governor Newsom's revised 2024-2025 budget and raised concern about the elimination of funding for a popular state park access program, the California State Library Parks Pass.

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Clock Is Ticking on Contract Negotiations, Say Stockton Teachers at Board Meeting Protest

Stockton Unified School District teachers demonstrated outside the school district headquarters this week and voiced their frustrations with labor negotiations during the district’s board meeting.

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Will Less Homework Make California Students Happier?

A bill from a member of the Legislature’s happiness committee would require schools to come up with homework policies that consider the mental and physical strain on students.

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UOP Receives Nearly $1M to Support Students to Help Fill the Need for Health Care Workers

The University of the Pacific in Stockton has announced that their School of Health Sciences was awarded nearly a million dollars in state grants to continue helping students fill the need for health care workers. 

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Stockton Schools Employee Says He Was Fired for Blowing Whistle on ‘Unethical’ Expulsions

The director of child welfare and attendance for Stockton Unified School District was escorted off the district premises last week and placed on administrative leave after coming forward about enrollment drops and alleging he was pressured to approve unethical expulsions.

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