Omicron blazes through California child care providers already reeling from COVID

Child care centers were already struggling prior to the omicron variant. Now a dire situation has gotten even worse.

A search for solutions to the child care staffing crisis

Second in a two-part series. Read part one here. Lynn Twork tries to make sense of the most recent guidance from San Diego County on what to do when there’s a positive COVID-19 case in one of her preschool classrooms. She talks like someone stuck in a 16th century hedge maze from Europe.

The Great Resignation? More like The Great Renegotiation

There's been much hubbub in recent months about what's been dubbed "The Great Resignation." The popular phrase refers to the roughly 33 million Americans who have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021.

Global education trends and research to follow in 2022

As the third calendar year of the pandemic begins, 2022 promises to be an important one—especially for education.

Anti-vaccination forces gear up for fight over California vaccine legislation

California is poised to become the front line of America’s vaccination wars.

A state-funded pre-K program led to ‘significantly negative effects’ for kids in Tennessee

Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals.

New bill would add Covid vaccine to list of schools’ required immunizations

The bill, introduced by State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, who is also a pediatrician, takes Gov. Gavin  Newsom’s Covid vaccine mandate a step further. It would require the vaccine regardless of whether the U.S.

San Diego child care centers struggle with staffing crisis

Even before COVID there was a real staffing crisis among childcare providers, supporters say the positions are undervalued and poorly paid. Now the situation is far worse. K PBS investigative reporter Claire Traeger looks at what's causing this massive childcare staffing crisis in the region

Where did all the workers go?

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