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mallikaseshadri.bsky.social
@mallikaseshadri.bsky.social
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🗞️Education reporter @edsource.org
📰Formerly @NPR.org & @CalMatters.org
📚USC investigative fellow & MA candidate
🎓UC Berkeley alum
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edsourceguild.bsky.social
EdSource's unit of @newsguild.org was recognized by management on Jan. 27, and 164 days later management has not met with us to begin negotiating a contract. We are ready and prepared to bargain. It is time to get to work and build a better @edsource.org.
July 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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emmagallegos.bsky.social
PODCAST: Is LAUSD misusing its money for arts education?

Guest Vicky Martinez says her children need a robust arts education in the wake of the pandemic, but LAUSD isn’t providing that.

Special thanks to @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social and @karendsouza.bsky.social

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PODCAST: Is LAUSD misusing its money for arts education?
Parents joined a lawsuit against LAUSD and superintendent Alberto Carvalho, claiming that the district was misusing its Proposition 28 funds.
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February 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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zstavely.bsky.social
"Can my principals bring together a group of Asian American students to talk about whether they’ve experienced anti-Asian hate? ...Can we even celebrate African American History Month?'" Important read from @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social and @lashericat.bsky.social edsource.org?page_id=727083
‘A step backwards’: How federal threats to DEI are impacting California schools
California schools are grappling with the U.S. Department of Education's letter requiring them to scrap their DEI programs.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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edsourceguild.bsky.social
We have an update: Our union, @edsourceguild.bsky.social, has been voluntarily recognized! We look forward to working with management to create the conditions we need for all of us to succeed. #EdSourceGuild
January 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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jfensterwald.bsky.social
"The house is gone. Everything is gone ..." Compelling portrait of a disaster – how one teacher, one family in Altadena cope with loss from Eaton Fire & start to pick up the pieces; @edsource.org podcast w/ @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social @zstavely.bsky.social edsource.org/podcast/teac...
PODCAST: Teachers, students reel from Los Angeles fires
A teacher shares the story of her family's escape, and a reporter describes the physical and emotional damage to schools and communities.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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zstavely.bsky.social
Tanya Reyes is a Los Angeles Unified teacher and a Pasadena Unified mom. Her family lost everything in the Eaton Fire. Listen: edsource.org/podcast/teac... @mallikaseshadri.bsky.social @edsource.org
PODCAST: Teachers, students reel from Los Angeles fires
A teacher shares the story of her family's escape, and a reporter describes the physical and emotional damage to schools and communities.
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January 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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edsourceguild.bsky.social
The reporters of @edsource.org are excited to announce the formation of the #EdSourceGuild.
The work of EdSource journalists has never been more crucial, given the continuous threats to democracy and the unprecedented challenges facing the public education system. Since its founding, EdSource has grown from an authoritative source of school financial data and analysis to California’s leading education news source. By unionizing, EdSource Guild members hope to maintain our organization's relentless drive for critical and ethical journalism, while building an inclusive and equitable newsroom. At a critical time for press freedoms and with the rights of journalists under constant threat, we also want to stand with our fellow organized workers in this age-old craft to protect the cherished common duty to inform the public without fear or favor. Our job is to hold the powerful accountable and be advocates for students, parents, educators and taxpayers. Now, this union must balance the scales of power and decision-making within our organization. Our award-winning stories, investigations, data analysis, podcasts, roundtables and documentaries illuminate the toughest education issues and inform students, families and education decision-makers about California schools. EdSource journalists are often called upon by television and radio shows to discuss our stories and provide meaningful context to education issues. To preserve and protect quality journalism, to have a say in decisions that affect coverage and to be fairly compensated for this work, EdSource reporters must unionize. We want to create a culture that embraces a healthy work-life balance, and we want to be a destination where talented journalists can spend their careers. That requires adequate compensation that keeps up with the skyrocketing cost of living in California. Unionizing will help us create the best version of EdSource, protect our work and mission, and preserve this organization’s legacy for the future.
January 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM