Back in the late 1960s, The Prisoner was my favorite TV show by far. It was a quirky spy-type series, and in it a British agent was whisked away to a clandestine site known only as The Village. In [...] Continue Reading
Education
Eliseo Gamino: Educate Children, Combat Crime
By Community Alliance Staff Born in Mexico, Eliseo Gamino is the son of a bracero farmworker. He graduated from Fresno State, where he also obtained his master’s in education, with an emphasis on [...] Continue Reading
Daren Miller: Focused on Education
By Community Alliance Staff In the June 7 Primary, Fresno County voters will have the rare opportunity to vote for the superintendent of schools without there being an incumbent (elected or [...] Continue Reading
FUSD Special Election
A special election will take place on April 12 to replace Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) Trustee Carol Mills, who passed away last year. She served as a trustee for 17 years. Trustee Area 5 [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Bee Columnist Platforms Fascist
Deep into Fresno Bee writer Marek Warzsawki’s recent column on anti-vaxxer disruptions at Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) board meetings comes this oblique reference: “All but one of the 22 [...] Continue Reading
Can Schools Return to Normal?
So what’s been happening inside the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD)? What do teachers experience on the job nowadays, and what’s changed over the past few years? In recent few years—partly [...] Continue Reading
Angry Youth Protest for Chancellor Castro’s Resignation
Fresno State’s former vice president of student affairs, Frank Lamas, and California State University (CSU) Chancellor Joseph Castro are experiencing extreme heat. Castro allowed Lamas to continue [...] Continue Reading
Castro First Hispanic to Lead CSU System
By Vic Bedoian Dr. Joseph Castro, San Joaquin Valley born and bred, son of immigrant parents, was the first Hispanic to become president of Fresno State. Now, in another historic milestone, he has [...] Continue Reading
Slow Train Wreck of California’s Online Community College
By David Bacon It might have taken more than two years, but the Calbright online community college has apparently lost any support it might have enjoyed in the state legislature when the California [...] Continue Reading
Seven Years Later
By Ruth Gadebusch On the seven-year-anniversary of that horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the gun situation in this nation is hardly better. In fact, one could argue [...] Continue Reading
What to Do About Teen Stress
By Ariana Mohebbi People often think that teenagers are influenced by the media to smoke, vape, drink or do drugs, but the main cause of these bad decisions is stress. School is the culprit for [...] Continue Reading
Cultural Immersion and Volunteer Program
By Maria Fernanda Camara Perez During the summer of 2019, the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE; Secretary of Foreign Relations), through its Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (IME; [...] Continue Reading