California’s Attorney General Holds Community Meetings About DAPA and DACA – The future of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration is still pending, in the hands of the courts. Meanwhile, California’s Attorney General and community groups began a series of community forums to help immigrants prepare to apply when and if DAPA and the expanded DACA go into effect. Still, they are alerting immigrants about possible fraud. The first forum was held in Stanislaus County, home to many undocumented youth and parents of citizen or permanent resident children. Our reporter Juan Santiago went to the meeting and has this report.
Nine-Year-Old Girl, Paralyzed by Bullet, Struggles to Continue Her Education – Dozens of children are wounded by bullets each year in Oakland, the city with the highest rate of crime per person in California. Nine-year-old Jacqueline Funes is one of them. She was hit by a stray bullet while playing outside her house, and she is now paralyzed from the neck down. That bullet cost Jacqueline months of schooling, and she is now struggling to be able to learn, and live, as she did before. Our reporter Zaidee Stavely examines how the violence that permeates the poorest neighborhoods is altering the lives of children like Jacqueline Funes and their teachers. This special report was produced in collaboration with Renaissance Journalism’s Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education, with funding from the Ford Foundation..
