
Carolyn Jones
Ed Source Senior ReporterCarolyn Jones is a senior reporter at EdSource. She was a reporter for 17 years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered local government, the environment, breaking news and other beats. She’s also worked at the Oakland Tribune and Hayward Daily Review.
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Supporters of a California trans youth ballot measure wanted to change the name assigned by the attorney general, but a judge said no.
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California relaxed its COVID-19 isolation guidelines just as infections for the respiratory virus increased. Symptom-free people can go to work or school.
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Staff, students, and families in remote towns of state still struggling with homelessness years after fires.
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Joshua Brown, 19, is one of only a handful of people in the nation known to have autism who hold public office.
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School districts in Yuba City and Amador County will begin education and training programs for students and staff following racist incidents this fall involving their respective football teams.
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Monday’s Smarter Balanced results showed widespread declines in reading and math scores, but a closer look at individual districts shows a more nuanced – and even hopeful – picture of student progress during the pandemic.
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For many young people, Tuesday’s massacre at a Texas elementary school could not have come at a worse time. Emotional scars are lingering from the pandemic, and schools are closing for the summer, cutting off students from their routines and access to campus mental health services.
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California schools are extending a warm welcome to Ukrainians who've fled the fighting in their homeland. At least 60,000 Ukrainian immigrants live in California, the second-highest population in the U.S.
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Empty classrooms and quiet hallways: California’s rural far north grapples with declining enrollmentEnrollment has dropped more than 5% in rural Northern California over the past 20 years, with some districts seeing drops of 50% or more.
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California students and school staff had mixed emotions about the end of the state’s school mask mandate Monday.