Thanks to The James B. McClatchy Foundation, up to $10,000 in donations made today to EdSource will be matched for #GivingTuesday. That means your gift will go TWICE as far in making EdSource’s journalism available at no cost to readers. #GivingNewsDay #caedu ➡️ Donate: bit.ly/3SnVAEQ

I truly never thought I'd say "Sprouts" and "Southeast LA" in the same sentence. Today's grand opening adds a new, good layer to my rants about food access in this region of Los Angeles. What an exciting time to be from this community 🫶

"They helped me change my mindset... gave me different scenarios ...that I could have chosen to make a better decision." - Kaelyn Carter, on #CaliforniansForAll Youth Jobs Corps helping formerly incarcerated people LISTEN: edsource.org/podcast/jobs-c… Betty Márquez Rosales California Volunteers

SPC 2024 Journalism Awards Contest finalists for Social Justice and Equity Reporting: @skwonjournalistand Ronnie Cohen for KFF Health News @lindseymholdenand Mathew Miranda for The Sacramento Bee Ashley A. Smith, Betty Márquez Rosales, Coby Roscoe, and Jennifer Molina for EdSource

Calls, home visits, counseling help get CAstudents back to school #ChronicAbsenteeism The Oakland REACH Fresno Unified Attendance Works; by Betty Márquez Rosales Lasherica Thornton edsource.org/2024/calls-hom…

LISTEN: What does it take to bring chronically absent kids back to school? In Fresno Unified, all hands on deck w/ Betty Márquez Rosales Lasherica Thornton & host Zaidee Stavely edsource.org/podcast/how-fr…

I stand with the student journalists trying to do their work under impossible conditions. Keep telling the truth as professionally and fiercely as you can. It’s you versus the world right now.

🧵The student publications are truly doing some of the best journalism out there. Follow/read/listen/support: -NYC : WKCR-FM NY, Columbia Daily Spectator, Washington Square News, -Boston: The Berkeley Beacon, The Tufts Daily -CA: Daily Trojan, USC Annenberg Media, Daily Bruin, The Daily Californian, The Lumberjack

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also

1/ .UCLA just put out a statement about clearing the #UCLA protest and, wow Leaders say they *had to shut the protest down because there was too much violence between the camp and counter-protesters. But the camp was *attacked by a violent mob And law enforcement watched it

The "outside agitator" trope is old and tired. Any journalist hearing it from a gov. official ought to be skeptical, to say the least. The claim "outside agitators" spark protests and sow disorder—particularly among students—goes back over 50 years.... 🧵

Newsrooms reported on the “clashes” between counter-protesters and the encampment Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. From the journalistic perspective of someone there, those events were not clashes. They were unprovoked attacks against college students by mostly adults.

As protests surge across college campuses, student journalists report from the front lines. Great read from Betty Márquez Rosales and Mallika Seshadri edsource.org/?page_id=711202 via @edsource

Police report no serious injuries. But scenes from inside UCLA camp, protesters tell a different story latimes.com/california/sto…

Thread👇👏

New: CHP isn’t supposed to aim less-lethal munitions at protesters’ heads and fire into crowds. It did at UCLA. We found at least 25 instances in which officers appeared to aim their weapons at the eye-level of protesters or fired them into crowds. calmatters.org/justice/2024/0…

Student journalists are crucial sources on the wave of protests on college campuses, often scooping other media. Many are also doing work under threats of arrest and violence. LISTEN to Education Beat podcast with Betty Márquez Rosales and Mallika Seshadri edsource.org/podcast/studen…

Mental health challenges loom large behind stubborn chronic absenteeism, @usc study finds; what strategies hold promise Morgan Polikoff 🏳️‍🌈 @laschools; today's good read by Betty Márquez Rosales & Mallika Seshadri edsource.org/2024/helping-s…

LISTEN: How CA's truancy law can help, coax or pressure parents to deal w/ unexcused absences; great podcast w/ host emma gallegos, Betty Márquez Rosales & insightful guests #chronicabsences edsource.org/podcast/how-co…

When she was SF DA, Kamala Harris pushed a get-tough truancy law. Betty Márquez Rosales explored how it’s being actually being implemented in schools statewide over a decade later. Really enjoyed guest hosting Education Beat this week!