Around Town Piedmont Community Service Crew hosts open house on April 27 By Ken Li | Piedmont Community Service Crew | April 21, 2023 Learn about PCSC's Rebuilding Together Oakland project happening now, plus other service opportunities.
Around Town Video | Piedmont teens spend spring break 2023 building homes in Mexico By Exedra staff | video by Michael Barber, Piedmont Community Church | April 21, 2023 More than 200 youth volunteers participated in the annual Piedmont Community Church service trip.
Bay Area California districts see more chronic absenteeism than before pandemic By Ali Tadayon | EdSource | April 17, 2023 Survey of 30 districts statewide shows many struggling to get students to come to school.
Bay Area Cal State undergraduate workers seek union representation By Rocky Walker | CalMatters | April 14, 2023 Undergraduate student assistants are calling for more work hours, paid sick time, and higher wages.
Around Town 50 years after he was assassinated, why Marcus Foster is more relevant than ever By Carolyn Jones | EdSource | April 14, 2023 PUSD Superintendent Dr. Donald Evans was recognized as "Marcus Foster Educator of the Year" while at Berkeley Unified in 2018.
health Tobacco sales phaseout withers in California without support from anti-tobacco advocates By Alexei Koseff | CalMatters | April 13, 2023 Anti-tobacco groups won’t say why they didn’t support the bill, which was amended to focus on enforcing an existing flavored tobacco ban.
Bay Area Thousands of Californians are missing out on federal student aid. Here’s why By Adam Echelman | CalMatters | April 13, 2023 Increasingly complicated laws and poor communication have made aid dollars harder to come by for some adult students.
California California bill would mandate HPV vaccine for incoming college students By Rachel Scheier | KFF Health News | April 12, 2023 At least four other states have enacted a similar mandate.
health What can California do about abortion pill ruling? Not much By Kristen Hwang | CalMatters | April 11, 2023 Unless the ruling is reversed on appeal, mifepristone will likely be pulled from pharmacy shelves.
California Gov. Newsom wanted California to cut ties with Walgreens — then federal law got in the way By Samantha Young | Kaiser Health News | April 7, 2023 Federal rules make it difficult for the state to unwind its Medicaid prescription drug agreement, which paid Walgreens $1.5 billion last year.