VIDEO: Teaching experience helped shape reporter’s perspective
Erica Perez went from teaching English at a high school to writing about the education system as an investigative reporter with California Watch.
Thousands of state inmates shut out of the classroom
Fewer than one in every ten California inmates are enrolled in an educational program, despite a pledge by state officials to enhance rehabilitation efforts in order to cut recidivism and relieve prison overcrowding.
An estimated 14,360 inmates were taking part in a variety of academic classes out of a total adult inmate population of 162,608, according to a report [PDF] released last week by the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board.
As part of its biannual report on the prison system, the board calculated enrollment in academic classes at 35.9
Cal Poly Pomona wants to raze iconic but seismically unstable building
The California State University Board of Trustees will consider a proposal this week that would allow Cal Poly Pomona to raze an iconic but seismically unsafe building on campus and build a new, $78 million replacement.
Anyone who has visited Cal Poly Pomona in the last decade has probably seen the Classroom Laboratory Administration building. Its triangular "skyroom" atop the eight-story tower is visible from the freeway, a sort of
