An Ignoble Experiment: Welcome to the 8 to 3 newsletter

I’m Sonja Sharp, a Metro reporter covering early childhood and education for the Los Angeles Times. Thank you for signing up for 8 to 3, our newsletter about parenting, kids and education in Southern California.

What’s going on with school? What do children need? Who makes the decisions that affect your family, what guides them, and who's being left out? And most important, whom can you trust?

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