Statewide Region Local News: Education

04/17/2024
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.

04/04/2024
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.

03/27/2024
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.

03/14/2024
An interview with Lucinda Lee Katz, the first grade teacher of the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Lau vs. Nichols.

03/07/2024
The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources advisors has published a new website with information resources for small acreage landowners raising livestock.

03/07/2024
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.

03/04/2024
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.

02/26/2024
EdSource asked students at California colleges and universities why they are choosing between online or in-person options.

02/23/2024
Students across 23 campuses voted to form one of the country's largest student worker organizations.

02/22/2024
The bill would end performance assessments of California teachers, including an upcoming new literacy assessment to replace a written test.

02/21/2024
Lawyers representing organizations in property-poor school districts are pressing Gavin Newsom and legislators over a school bond for the November ballot.

02/21/2024
On one side: Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ advocacy group. On the other side: Protect Kids California, a parents rights organization.

02/19/2024
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.

02/19/2024
Abandoning potential “comebackers” has major implications, not just for them, but also for the state’s economy, says California Competes.

02/15/2024
Immigration enforcement lowers students’ ability to succeed academically and negatively affects their overall learning experience.

02/14/2024
By reframing them as mutually reinforcing rather than mutually exclusive, we can transform education for every child.

02/14/2024
Teachers and students tap into a native tradition in which art and nature have always been inextricably linked.

02/12/2024
The state is to implement long-awaited new guidelines in 2025 despite some calls for a year’s delay.