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12/1/2021

New Round of COVID-19 Infections Hits California Youth Prisons

Jeremy Loudenback

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco
Dozens of young people locked up in California’s youth prison system have tested positive for COVID-19 — the latest outbreak at facilities that have struggled to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.

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3/4/2021

California Cleared to Use Medicaid for School Testing

The Imprint staff reports

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California – not to mention frustrated students and exhausted parents – got some good news Wednesday on the school-reopening front.  Two days after Newsom (D) announced a budget deal aimed at incentivizing public schools to start reopening for in-person learning by the end of the month, the federal government approved the state’s request to use federal Medicaid funds to test low-income students enrolled in the state’s Medi-Cal health insurance plan for COVID-19.

5/7/2020

Two L.A. Youth Test Positive for the Coronavirus in Juvenile Halls

Jeremy Loudenback

A scenario feared by parents and advocates for months came true Thursday, when two teenagers incarcerated in Los Angeles County juvenile halls were confirmed to be infected with coronavirus, just days after testing began for all new arrivals, officials said. 

9/26/2016

California Foster Youth Score Well Below Peers on Standardized Tests

Jeremy Loudenback

According to newly available data released last week, California’s foster youth are lagging far behind other public school students when it comes to test scores. For the first time, the California Department of Education (CDE) released test scores for the nearly 70,000 foster youth in the state’s public schools as a result of the state’s Local Control Funding Formula.

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