{"id":165179,"date":"2026-02-05T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:18:09","slug":"from-housing-to-basketball-fresno-schools-invest-in-the-whole-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165179\/","title":{"rendered":"From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Unified invested $30 million in services for children and families that go beyond traditional academics, from housing assistance and food pantries to digital music production and lunchtime sports programs.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers say the programs are getting students excited about being at school, and addressing some of the barriers that made it hard for them to get to school or to learn once there.<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Eugene Reinor, Principal, Fort Miller Middle School, Fresno Unified School District<\/p>\n<p>Hector Giovanni Romero, Music teacher, Lincoln Elementary School, Fresno Unified School District<\/p>\n<p>Lasherica Thornton, Reporter, EdSource<\/p>\n<p>Read more from EdSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2026\/fresno-unifieds-30-million-investment-to-support-students-is-paying-dividends\/749170\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Unified\u2019s $30 million investment to support students is paying off<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource\u2019s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/education-beat\/id1579197906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1lXHHOjkRgWh7jLbh068VS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/edsource-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SoundCloud<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLNH_-wMQC36UJClbCJoLT3XuMPf2jIrrx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 5, 2026 Fresno Unified invested $30 million in services for children and families that go beyond traditional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-165179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}