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California is investing $4.1 billion to make one out of each three faculties a group college
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Neighborhood faculties get households the assets and assist they should thrive, like well being care and psychological well being and social providers – every part from counseling to vitamin applications to tutoring
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Supporting college students outdoors of the classroom helps them succeed contained in the classroom
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom, First Accomplice Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and Assemblymembers Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) and Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) immediately visited Encina Excessive College and Greer Elementary College in Sacramento – two group faculties co-located on the identical campus to supply entire household providers throughout the age spans.
The Governor and First Accomplice met with college students taking part within the college’s varied group college applications made accessible after being awarded $1 million in 2021 to assist tutoring earlier than and after college, peer mentoring applications, trauma-informed psychological well being helps, cell well being look after households, and English courses for adults within the surrounding group.
Governor Newsom and First Accomplice Siebel Newsom at Greer Elementary College in Sacramento
What Governor Newsom mentioned: “California is creating faculties the place each pupil and their households can thrive. If a child goes to high school hungry, it makes it tough to be taught. That’s why we’ve applied free college meals for all of California’s children, together with these right here at Greer Elementary and Encina Excessive College. As training stays beneath assault in states throughout the U.S. – from ebook bans and speech suppression, to the othering of our college students, mother and father, and academics – we’re bettering pupil studying, well being, and wellbeing by offering full-service faculties for our college students and their households.”
What this implies: By California’s $4.1 billion group faculties funding, mother and father and college students all through California may have extra entry to colleges that present high-quality instruction and culturally competent wraparound providers, together with psychological well being assist, tutoring, vitamin applications, free college meals, well being care, counseling and different social help.
First Accomplice Siebel Newsom added: “Neighborhood faculties are each a haven for studying and a group hub with assets and assist that permit us to nurture youngsters in thoughts, physique, and spirit. These faculties take a holistic strategy to training by providing college students and households a wide range of providers that meet the wants of the group, reminiscent of free meals twice a day, bodily well being screenings and psychological well being counseling, free earlier than, after, and summer time college applications, transitional kindergarten, and extra. Neighborhood faculties construct on California’s dedication to giving ALL youngsters the perfect begin in life and offering households with the assets they should thrive.”
First Accomplice Siebel Newsom at Encina Excessive College in Sacramento
How California is Remodeling Schooling:
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Common Pre-Kindergarten: California’s youngsters may have entry to essential high-quality instruction by age 4 – successfully including a brand new grade to the standard Okay-12 system – no matter a household’s revenue, with full-scale implementation anticipated by 2025.
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Common Prolonged-Day Studying: All elementary college college students may have entry to before- and after-school applications, in addition to summer time studying alternatives, by 2025.
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Common Free Meals: No pupil might want to be taught on an empty abdomen, with all college students having the selection of two free, nutritious meals per day – no matter revenue or household standing.
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Youth Behavioral Well being: Youth ages 0-25 may have entry to a revamped youth behavioral well being system, together with a web based one-stop hub and billions invested to combine psychological well being providers with faculties.
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School Financial savings Accounts: Each low-income public college pupil may have an account opened of their title with a seed deposit of $500 to $1,500 – cultivating a college-going mindset, constructing generational wealth, selling faculty affordability, and growing monetary literacy.
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Tutoring + Literacy + Math: Colleges will assist college students speed up educational progress and mitigate studying loss because of the COVID-19 pandemic with greater than $8 billion invested in tutoring, elevated tutorial time, and different pupil helps.
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Extra Academics, Extra Counselors, and Extra Paraeducators: Decrease staff-to-student ratios is extra assist for college students. Ratios will probably be lowered throughout settings and $1.1 billion in annual funding for high-poverty faculties to rent as much as 5 extra employees every.
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