Sacramento County Education Digest

Tribes like the Muwekma Ohlone have been asking UC Berkeley for decades to give back ancestral remains from burial sites around the Bay Area. The school is in the process of repatriating 4,400 remains and 25,000 tribal items.

Women are nearly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but among boys and girls, the likelihood is the same.

Over 95% of California Faculty Association members across the Cal State university system have voted to authorize a strike if necessary, union leaders announced.

State law requires community colleges to spend at least half their general fund on instructors. But administrators say they want more flexibility to pay for the growing need for student services.

Some advocates believe the state should expand the Cal Grant program for low-income students next year, even if that means pulling money from a financial aid program that benefits middle class students.

Campaign finance disclosures show the Nov. 7 special election for a key school board seat in the San Juan Unified School District is drawing some significant interest from donors, including a $10,000 donation from a teachers association political action committee.

Signed by the governor in September 2022, AB 2881 aims to help student parents in California by offering them priority registration. Advocates are optimistic the law will formalize data collection, allowing them to better serve this student population that represents 1 in 5 students nationally.

Dr. Ernest Uwazie, director of the university’s Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution, facilitates life-changing conversations between victims and offenders.

Despite an influx of money to counter learning loss during the pandemic, English language arts and math test scores remain low.

One year after California launched a program creating college savings accounts to address inequity, only 6% of the accounts have been claimed. Now officials are increasing outreach.

With the growing use of AI, campus officials are trying to set clear guidelines for college application essays.

Heated conversation over “parent rights” and notification policies have played out at several board meetings in the Sacramento area over recent weeks.

Ballots are scheduled to arrive in the mail for the Natomas Unified School District school board special election on Nov. 7. Six candidates are running for the school district’s Trustee Area 4 seat.

President Luke Wood speaks with CapRadio Insight host Vicki Gonzalez.

Capital Public Radio’s board of directors voted to hire a new general manager on Oct. 3, but Sacramento State said it opposes the move for the financially troubled broadcaster and will not fund the position.

Student workers at the 23-campus system say their pay is low, their hours are restricted and they get no sick pay. They are hoping to join the employees union to fix that.

What is appropriate to teach on sexual diversity in schools? The Elk Grove School Board focused at length on this question Sept. 20.

To qualify for financial aid, students must maintain a certain grade-point-average, but many don’t. A bill on Gov. Newsom’s desk would make it easier for students to keep their aid and stay in college.

After a historic decline in community college enrollment during the pandemic, students are returning to school again, according to the state’s most recent data. But students between the ages of 20 and 30 are lagging behind.

The San Juan Unified School District is looking to fill vacancies on five committees, including community advisory, curriculum, and bond oversight.

The tuition increases were forecast earlier this year, when a Cal State task force concluded the system needs at least $1.5 billion annually in new revenue to afford student services and bolster its academic offerings.

Eight community colleges in California are testing out a new education model, one that defines success by the skills a student learns, not the time they spend in a classroom. But changing the traditional education system isn’t easy.

The plan, if approved, would begin at UCLA, with other campuses added later. But not everyone is on board with the latest version of this bill.

It’s the first of its kind in the California State University system, and joins just over 20 similar spaces across the country.

More than 100 people spoke for and against the measure during the six-hour meeting of the Rocklin Unified School Board, which voted to approve a policy requiring teachers to tell parents if their child asks to be identified as a gender other than their assigned sex at birth.

Nearly a third of K-12 students statewide were chronically absent in 2020-21, more than three times the pre-pandemic rate. Some school officials fear that pattern is becoming the new normal.

Ramilies across California—especially those who are not White or do not speak English as their primary language—report persistent and often maddening roadblocks in trying to obtain assistance for loved ones with disabilities.

A June budget deal required community colleges to raise their own money to build affordable student housing. Some campuses said that plan prevented them from building the dorms, even with help from the state to pay the debt.

The 2023-24 school year in Sacramento brings transitions: an end to negotiation between the Sacramento City Unified School District and the Sacramento City Teachers Association, a search for a new superintendent, a shift in priorities for the district, and a change to historically racist school names.

One day before classes were set to resume, teachers in the Sacramento City Unified School District received a 10% raise retroactive to July 2022, the result of an uncharacteristically speedy negotiation between the district and its teachers union.

What teachers experience in the public education system is explored in a new report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks proposed legislation to help get around a court's rejection of a UC Berkeley housing plan. But even if the law is approved, its fate is in the hands of the state Supreme Court.