CA FWD NEWS

Legislative support critical to survival of career technical education
 150 150 Alma Salazar and Van Ton-Quinlivan
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Due to a steady decline of investment in career technical education (CTE) brought on by recessionary factors, Californians are finding it more difficult than ever to obtain critical training for job skills that today’s employers demand.

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LCFF & Common Core: How Lynwood Unified is managing both
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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In this interview, CAFwd spoke to Alma-Delia Renteria, a teacher and school board member at the Lynwood Unified School District for her perspective on the ongoing changes.

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LCFF can’t be only step toward education reform
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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While the law changes how money is distributed, however, it does very little to change the actual amount of money that is going toward schools.

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Can California be optimistic and pessimistic at the same time?
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Unaffiliated voters apparently don’t vote as much as Democrats and Republicans. So we have less NPPs and less young people heading to the polls, which doesn’t bode well for how representative elected officials actually are of the people they represent.

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Creativity is Big Business in California
 150 150 Tracy Hudak
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One in 10 jobs in state tied to creative economy

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LCFF & Common Core: How Compton Unified is managing both
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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In this interview, CAFwd spoke to Micah Ali of the Compton Unified School District for his perspective on the ongoing changes.

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New grant bolsters Asian American Pacific Islander community
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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For the first time, Advancing Justice-L.A. received a grant from the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) and Civics classes to the AAPI communities of L.A.

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