300,000 California kids can now see the board — thanks to mobile eye clinics

A child who cannot see the classroom board is not falling behind from lack of effort. The nonprofit Vision To Learn just hit a remarkable milestone: 300,000 children in California — served through school-based mobile vision clinics in low-income communities — now have the glasses they need. The payoff is measurable: a Johns Hopkins study published in JAMA Ophthalmology found that children who got the glasses gained an extra two to four months of learning, up to six months for the kids who were struggling most. Now comes the next push: covering every community school in Los Angeles Unified.