Sacramento County Education Digest

Two major forces are at play: Gov. Gavin Newsom scaled back his promise of increased financial support for Cal State, while university officials agreed to 5% salary increases earlier this year.

In its May 21 meeting, the Sacramento City Council voted to put a measure on the November ballot to combine two existing library parcel taxes and extend them indefinitely.

Sacramento State will be home to the central office for the $10 million Black student advancement drive on all 23 California State University campuses.

The job action starting today at UC Santa Cruz isn’t about pay, but instead is in response to how UC deployed police to clear pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses.

The state Board of Education granted a waiver to a penalty of $40 million to the Sacramento City Unified School District for a lapse of eight days of instruction due to a teacher strike if the district makes up the days over 2 years.

Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services.

Nine counties located more than an hour away from universities with teacher preparation programs face particular difficulties.

San Juan Unified ihas invited the community to contribute feedback at nine upcoming community forums. The district plans to address facilities plans of each high school and all associated schools that feed into the high school.

Heiress Paris Hilton is on a mission to shine a light on the "troubled teen industry," a largely unregulated multibillion-dollar industry that is gaining public scrutiny for alleged abuse of vulnerable youths.

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, underwent updates aimed at broadening its accessibility to students from low-income and undocumented backgrounds. But the National College Attainment Network reported a 36% decrease in FAFSA applications following several technical difficulties with the online portal.

Gun Violence Expert Dr. Shani Buggs Talks Need For More Funding, Diverse Perspectives.

The move puts the fate of AB 2222 in question, but supporters insist that there is room to negotiate changes that can help tackle the state's literacy crisis.

After bringing his story all the way to the University of California Board of Regents, a disabled UC Berkeley student has prompted the UC to ensure emergency evacuation chairs are in every multi-storied building in the 10-university system.

Elk Grove Unified School District trustees are exploring whether and how to put a $600M bond measure on the November ballot to finance the repair and building of new facilities in the district.

According to an email sent to library patrons and posts on social media, the library will be closed March 30-April 12.

An interview with Lucinda Lee Katz, the first grade teacher of the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Lau vs. Nichols.

Intro to Media Arts students at El Camino Fundamental High School are the voices and talent driving this area radio station.

Founded in 2008, Sacramento nonprofit Voice of Youth provides mentorship and support for local youth, including funding college tours.

California’s public schools depend on state aid for the lion’s share of their operational income. Two trends – declining enrollment and high absenteeism – are creating financial headaches.

The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources advisors has published a new website with information resources for small acreage landowners raising livestock.

California schools got $23.4 billion in federal pandemic relief money. Low-income schools that got the most may be hardest hit when the funds expire this year.

EdSource asked students at California colleges and universities why they are choosing between online or in-person options.

Leap day means several things to Alexander Boxer, a data scientist and the author of “A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for Our Destiny in Data.”

On one side: Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ advocacy group. On the other side: Protect Kids California, a parents rights organization.

Lawyers representing organizations in property-poor school districts are pressing Gavin Newsom and legislators over a school bond for the November ballot.

Members of the California Faculty Association approve a two-year agreement that the union and administration hammered out after a strike last month that lasted one day.

Immigration enforcement lowers students’ ability to succeed academically and negatively affects their overall learning experience.

Teachers and students tap into a native tradition in which art and nature have always been inextricably linked.

By reframing them as mutually reinforcing rather than mutually exclusive, we can transform education for every child.

While lectures on Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are important, some educators are eager to learn more about underrepresented trailblazers like Lewis Latimer and Marsha P. Johnson.

The state is to implement long-awaited new guidelines in 2025 despite some calls for a year’s delay.

Some Sacramento County voters will be asked to weigh in this March on who should represent them on two local school boards, the Sacramento County Office of Education and Twin Rivers Unified School District.