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Commentary | Cruisin’ with COVID

Seven months of sheltering, zooming, and managing life aboard what feels like a ship suspended at sea.

Cities have begun to adopt policies to address the problems with burning fossil fuels in our homes that would protect our children's health now.

Schools will look different this year, so educators should reset measures for student success to align with a set of more holistic outcomes.

Working with UCSD experts, we have created a standard to safely reopen schools. But we cannot do it alone, and the mitigations are expensive.

California's public pension system faces a huge unfunded debt but dealing with it involves increasing risk.

The US needs to develop a plan to increase homeownership rates for everyone, especially communities of color, who have been left behind for years.

Mental illness has long been cloaked in shame and fear, but education helps enlighten the public.

Well-meaning friends discouraged me from sharing my diagnosis because doing so would end my career, they said.

In CA, we shouldn't be talking about hospital layoffs, furloughs or service cutbacks, but that this is what hospital leaders are confronting.

This fall, two different but intertwined efforts to support Piedmont’s schools are underway.