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An Altadena school community digs out from the ashes and wonders what’s next

Carlos Garcia Saldaña drove past block after block of homes, businesses, and churches “wiped off the face of the earth.” The Eaton fire that had consumed large parts of Altadena was still burning in the San Gabriel Mountains. The charter network leader needed to see what remained of his schools.

YA Author Launches Book Donation Campaign for LA Educators & Students

Just a few miles from the wildfire evacuation zones, YA writer and high school English teacher Veronica Bane has watched the fires wreak incomprehensible damage to her city. As an English teacher in a school without a library, Bane’s classroom library became the default library for the school. She sees every day the importance of the books on the student community and she knew classroom libraries and personal collections were being lost. She knew she could replace those books.

As Wildfires Devastate Los Angeles, Educators Offer Help and Refuge

The California wildfires add to the growing tally of natural disasters that have upended the school year for thousands of students across the country. In September, schools in the South faced extended closures after Hurricane Helene swept through the Gulf Coast up through the Appalachian Mountains. The disruptions will be harmful to students for years to come, researchers say.

What’s Ahead for the 5.3 Million English Learners in Our Schools?

Montserrat Garibay arrived in the United States three decades ago with her mother and sister as an undocumented immigrant, and learned English at a public middle school in Austin, TX. For the past four years, she's been at the U.S. Department of Education, first as the senior adviser for labor relations to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and, for the past two years, as deputy assistant secretary and director of the department's office of English-language acquisition.

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