When Lanie Wieland wrapped up her last class before the winter break at Napa’s West Park Elementary, her kindergarten and transitional kindergarten students sprung to hug her goodbye. The group of ...

January 22, 2026 - Fausto Lopez finished high school, got an associate degree and applied to attend a four-year college - all while inside juvenile detention. When Rigoberto Sanchez-Mejia was just 5 ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...