Slow recovery of children from the most upright fire in California

In the city, which saw the deadliest fire in California seven years ago, the latest elementary school is increasing. He will have a STEM laboratory, a football field and an outdoor scene – manifestations of Paradise’s hopes for his future.

But while breaking the ground and constructing a new campus of 46,000 square meters is an achievement, the way to restore paradise students remains long, complex and difficultS These are difficulties that are likely to become more common throughout the country, as the threat of wild fires is intensified, writes Calmatters. Carolyn JonesS

The 2018 camp fire killed 85 people, destroyed more than 18,000 buildings – including most of the dozens of schools in the city – and displaced at least 26,000 people. After his own, Paradise Unified reports on 154 days of closing a school, which affected about 4,200 students, according to an analysis of Salmatters.

Smooth out of pandemic learning, only 13% of graduating elderly people at Paradise Unified meet the requirements for entry of state universities in California last year or have completed a career training program compared to 45% across the country. Only 11% of eighth -graders also meet the state’s standard for mathematics, and 18% of sixth graders read at class level. The regional enrollment remains less than half of what was before the fire.

But as a result of a catastrophe, highlighting academic results or attendance, while prioritization of students’ mental health is a delicate balance: for most children, anxiety and grief arising from the camp’s fire have focused on school work a monumental task. The teachers who lost their homes and are now traveling long distances, also fought during the fall of wild fire.

Myah Poe, a recently graduate of Hometech Charter School in Paradise, lost his home from the fire. After living in motels and rents with her family, she was able to return to paradise two years ago.

• By: “People see news disasters and think,” Oh, it happened, it will end in a year. ” It’s not.

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Over the past few months, Christine Matlok Dogger has been traveling more than 400 miles from her home in Yukaip in San Bernardino County to Sacramento in three separate cases to stand up for two bills that would regulate mental health insurance.

The measures failed to progress this year, but Doggetti promises to press In honor of his sonwrites Calmatters’ Jocelyn WienerS

Ryan Matlok died of an overdose with fentanyl in 2021 after his insurance plan refused to continue to cover his stay at the addiction treatment center. After talking to Calmatters last year to the passage of her 23-year-old sonLegislators asked her to testify on behalf of two bills to help prevent such tragedies.

But in a difficult budget year, both bills were held for the state in committees that control new costs. In front of these legislative losses, however, Dogretti promises to continue his battle: “I will do it again. For Ryan.”

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Although it is not unusually the best leaders in the California government to smooth legislative transactions behind closed doors in the last days of the session, this week is particularly remarkable because the fate of So many subsequent accounts are still in the airwrites Calmatters’ Yue Stella YuS

Before legislators postpone Friday, governor Gavin Newo, democratic legislative leaders and their staff work to make deals whether to join a Regional Electricity Market with Other Western States; Strengthening of wild fire funds; and Increase Oil production in CaliforniaS A A $ 750 million loan for Bay Area Area public transport systems It is also in a limb, without a clear resolution so far.

This lack of transparency is disappointing some lobbyists and defenders, who turn out to rely on the draft of the bill of the bill leaking to news publications for information.

But keeping details of the deals can help progress the measures, as it allows lobbyists less time to object, said former Assembly spokesman Anthony Rendon, Democrat from Los Angeles.

• Rendon: “Is this the best thing? Is this the most democratic thing to do? No. This is the way our system works.”

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Speaking of deals in the last minute, representatives of the fossil fuel industry, business groups and state unions are assembled to oppose the expansion of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Program in 2045. It is that the movement deputies are looking for the end of this week. Read more by Calmatters’ Maya K. MillerS