The Covid pandemic rewrote the social contract between employer and employee, creating new opportunities for work scheduling and locations. Employees discovered the benefits of working from home, achieving a better work-life balance by avoiding long commutes and other stressors associated with working...

The California Department of Social Services has extended the timeframe for families to request the reissuance of expunged CalFresh benefits on their Pandemic EBT (P-EBT 2.0) cards to Aug. 18, 2023. P-EBT is a federal program that gives eligible families food benefits, in addition to free or reduced-price...

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond hosted the first in what will be a series of virtual webinars on Oct. 11 to update local educational agencies, including district and charter school administrators and classroom educators, on learning acceleration and ways schools are using billions...

Today, the California Department of Public Health provided a weekly update on the state’s monkeypox outbreak and response. Cases -California has reported 4,140 probable and confirmed MPX cases. -Cases have been reported in 40 local health jurisdictions. -Complete case data is available on the state’s...

The California Department of Public Health  provided a weekly update on the state’s monkeypox outbreak and response. Cases -California has reported 3,624 probable and confirmed MPX cases. -Cases have been reported in 38 local health jurisdictions. -Complete case data is available on the state’s...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has identified a second case of presumed monkeypox infection in Los Angeles County. The patient is an adult resident who has history of recent travel. They are symptomatic but doing well and isolating away from others. Public Health is continuing to...

Virtual learning was a futuristic thought pre-pandemic, but after the past two years, it has become an essential and almost dominant tool. As many have experienced at nearly every grade level, from kindergarten through higher education, the Zoom classroom has become integrated into their education, but...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has received confirmation of three additional cases of COVID-19 with mutations consistent with the new Omicron variant (B.1.1.529). Two of the three newly infected individuals did not travel; the third person recently traveled domestically.  All three...

Following a national trend for community colleges, College of the Canyons’ enrollment numbers are down about 12% from the same point in the semester last fall, according to college officials. Nationally, the figure is about 11.3% this year. College officials cited the “uncertainty of the pandemic...

Pandemic-related problems were among the top ten complaints made to state and local consumer agencies in 2020, according to an annual survey by the Consumer Federation of America. They also topped the lists of worst, fastest-growing and new complaints. “COVID-19 generated complaints about everything...