
Lee Romney
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Some of San Francisco’s African American families have attended public schools in the City for three generations. They share their personal stories as…
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Kids around the Bay Area are going back to school. So today, we’re re-airing this story from our series, "Learning While Black: The Fight For Equity In…
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Kids around the Bay Area are going back to school. So today, we’re re-airing this story from our series, "Learning While Black: The Fight For Equity In…
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Extreme wildfires fueled by climate change have been spewing more harmful smoke into California’s air in recent years. But not everyone is affected…
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Many of the extraordinary consequences of climate change are happening in a way we can't immediately feel in our everyday lives — like desertification, sea-level rise, mass human migration. But for Californians, there is one glaring exception: Wildfires. Over the last several years, they’ve become a constant presence in our lives, and the long-term effects of wildfire smoke is worse for some than others. In this episode, we start with the story of Ta'Kira Dannette Byrd, an 11-year-old girl who lives in Vallejo. Then, we hear why some domestic workers' jobs could get even riskier.
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The Oakland REACH is a grassroots group of black and Latino parents with kids in district and charter schools. They’ve been pushing for better quality…
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This is the first part of a two-part series on dyslexia. Listen to Part Two here.Over the past few decades, big scientific advances have helped us…
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Tony Thurmond is California’s first black Superintendent of Public Schools in four decades. Since mid-March, he’s spoken publicly only about the…
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Rolling out full-on distance learning assignments when only more affluent students could participate, SFUSD decided, would only deepen the achievement…
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All of us are under a shelter-in-place order, but we aren’t living the same experience. Access to resources makes it easier. Scarcity brings hardship. On…