Category: Wildfires
‘A true homecoming’: Pali High students return a year after the L.A. fires
Parents and community members welcome students back to Palisades Charter High School. Credit: Mallika Seshadri A cacophony of community members […]
January 27, 2026
How a young man serving a sentence in juvenile facilities made it out one class at a time
Fausto Lopez, 21, is a biology major, works as an assistant with Cal State San Bernardino’s Project Rebound, and is […]
January 13, 2026
L.A. Fires: Schools mourn losses, celebrate progress on anniversary
Top Takeaways Despite longstanding damage, both Los Angeles Unified and Pasadena Unified have worked to support students through their emotional […]
January 5, 2026
L.A. Fires: A year later, four who served students
Joe Ford lives in El Monte, east of downtown Los Angeles. He likes his neighbors, but he wishes he was […]
January 5, 2026
L.A. Fires: Tracking the fires’ impact on eight schools after one year
A year after the devastating fires in Los Angeles, school officials are in the early stages of planning to rebuild […]
January 5, 2026
EdSource’s Best of 2025: Our favorite Education Beat podcast episodes
Credits: Zaidee Stavely/EdSource; Lasherica Thornton/EdSource; GoFundMe; Palo Alto Unified; and Becca Esquivel Makris. EdSource’s “Education Beat” podcast gets to the […]
December 30, 2025
‘A school on a hill’: Students start returning to campus in L.A.’s fire-damaged region
On a sunny Tuesday morning, students, parents and community members walked atop the bluffs alongside charred foliage and barren lots, […]
October 1, 2025
Thousands of California students attend schools in high fire danger zones
Top Takeaways About 12.6% of the state’s public school students go to school in a high or very high Fire […]
July 31, 2025
Students showed resilience as schools recovered from L.A. fires
Top Takeaways Every student has dealt with different circumstances and is in a unique place academically and emotionally. The fires […]
June 12, 2025