The California legislation aims to reduce pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, which disproportionately affect youth of color.
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‘An incredible boost in morale’: Pacific Collegiate School board, teachers union reach agreement
The new deal will see teachers at Pacific Collegiate School, a charter school on Santa Cruz’s Westside, get an average raise of 16%; the agreement runs through the 2024-25 school year, though the school’s board of director and the teachers union must still negotiate terms of the final contract year.
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After COVID-19 school chaos, California lawmakers debate role of superintendent
Two years after the governor devised a plan to reopen schools, lingering COVID-19 frustrations could fuel debate about the role of California’s superintendent of public instruction.
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Amid youth mental health crisis, teens ask for a kinder college admissions process
High school students stress one aspect of the “youth mental health crisis” is the pressure they feel to be perfect and successful so they can get into choice colleges.
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Watsonville allows Ceiba College Prep to stay in current site after hundreds pack 6-hour city council meeting
Ceiba College Preparatory Academy will be allowed to stay in its Locust Street location after the Watsonville City Council narrowly approved a staff recommendation to rezone the area from industrial to institutional, granting Ceiba a special-use permit with some conditions.
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Watsonville City Council could decide fate of Ceiba College Preparatory Academy charter school Tuesday
With a special-use permit set to expire in June, Watsonville city staff are recommending that the seven-member council change the zoning for the site on Locust Street near Riverside Drive from industrial to institutional and grant Ceiba a permit to continue to operate there.
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As schools confront rise in post-pandemic bullying, one Aptos mother wants districts to do more
Melissa Schilling says incidents like one in which fellow students told her son, who is Black, that they didn’t like “his kind of hair” and gave him a haircut made the 14-year-old feel unsafe at school — a sentiment echoed by half of Black students in one Santa Cruz County survey. As in many places across the U.S., “we’re also seeing big behaviors on campuses — aggressive behaviors more than ever before,” the county superintendent says.
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Santa Cruz City Schools’ workforce housing could be completed in three years if all goes to plan, district says
After voters greenlighted the effort by approving Measures K and L last fall, Santa Cruz City Schools is moving ahead on building 80 units district staff can rent at 60 to 70% of market rent.
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‘Exciting and a little bit terrifying’: Santa Cruz High band set to perform at Carnegie Hall
All 84 members of the Santa Cruz High School band are set to join two choirs and three other bands selected to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York in March as part of the National Youth Choir and Instrument Music Festival. The band was chosen from applications submitted from across the United States.
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Victim identified in fatal weekend house party shooting in Boulder Creek
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the identity of the 18-year-old victim of a fatal shooting at a house party in Boulder Creek on Saturday. One school administrator wrote that the victim “was recognized by teachers for possessing an upbeat attitude toward life and school and for being an enjoyable student.” A teenage boy has been arrested as a suspect in the shooting.