Students in California schools will need to learn how to recognise false information and fake news.

California will now mandate that all K–12 students learn media literacy skills, such as identifying fake news and critically analysing what they come across online, in an effort to combat the spread of false information on the internet. Assembly Bill 873, which was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last month, mandates that the…

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To Continue Offering Mental Health Services in Schools, California Depends on a Bigger Health System

California authorities and educators are looking to the health system to establish a statewide behavioural health effort in order to bridge the financing gaps in erratic, sometimes unpredictably changing school budgets and establish a stable mental health fund for the education system. “There is insufficient integration between the health and education systems to ensure that…

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