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Erratic results, high costs doomed this districtwide student improvement program
Top Takeaways Fresno Unified and its teachers union reached an agreement in mid-June to attempt to mitigate the impacts of […]
July 11, 2025
Bill to provide descendants of slavery preference in college admissions moves forward
Top Takeaways Assembly Bill 7, which would allow colleges and universities to give preference to students who are descendants of […]
July 10, 2025
As ethnic studies mandate withers, it’s clear state leaders misled districts
Last week, the California Legislature let its widely heralded 2021 high school ethnic studies bill, AB 101, silently lapse after […]
July 8, 2025
What Trump’s budget and tax law means for California students
Top Takeaways Cuts to social safety net programs for the United States’ poorest will partly offset the $4.5 trillion in […]
July 8, 2025
Undocumented students in California navigate uncertainty and fear under Trump
An onslaught of new anti-immigrant policies under the Trump administration has targeted immigrants, creating a climate of fear and uncertainty. […]
July 7, 2025
As feds plan new measures to prevent financial aid fraud, colleges hope real students still enroll
Top Takeaways California’s community colleges have disbursed $14 million and likely much more in financial aid to fraudsters. The U.S. […]
July 3, 2025
Trump freezes grant funding, upending school budgets
Top Takeaways The Trump administration announced it would withhold $811 million in grant funding the day before the money was […]
July 2, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court decision worries LGBTQ+ advocates, emboldens conservatives
California school leaders will face a new reality when students return next month following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday […]
July 1, 2025
Districts need more options to ensure stability, continuity for students
As a former teacher and principal, and a current school board member, I am intimately familiar with the impact of […]
July 1, 2025
What to know about California’s English learners
About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not […]
June 30, 2025
What the new state budget holds in store for education
Top Takeaways Education remains largely protected despite a weak budget. Compromise allowed UC and CSU to dodge large proposed cuts. […]
June 27, 2025
Advocacy group leader talks about the challenges of transitional kindergarten
Michael Olenick has spent his life pondering the preschool years. His mother, a childhood development professor, was one of the […]
June 23, 2025
The missing element in Cal State’s big investment in AI
A recent New York Times investigation revealed OpenAI’s ambition to make artificial intelligence the “core infrastructure” of higher education. In […]
June 23, 2025
As White House wavers on visas, Chinese students at California colleges face uncertainty and worried parents
Top Takeaways About 18,000 Chinese students are enrolled at the University of California, 2,600 at California community colleges and 850 […]
June 20, 2025
Community college adjunct professors optimistic as two lawsuits over pay progress
A pair of recent court decisions may bode well for the state’s part-time community college professors, known as adjuncts, who […]
June 18, 2025
What you need to know about California’s Prop. 28 arts education initiative | Quick Guide
Amid a national reckoning over learning loss and chronic absenteeism deepened by the pandemic, arts education may be one of […]
June 18, 2025
Community college math policy: Balancing big picture gains and classroom struggles
Is this a picture of something bad, or something good? Cognitive scientists call this the global-local processing dilemma: Do we […]
June 17, 2025
LAUSD agrees to issue $500 million in bonds to settle sexual abuse claims
Top Takeaways School trustees authorize bonds without comment or public explanation. The total cost of $500 million in bonds could […]
June 16, 2025
Schools should not be battlegrounds for immigration enforcement
Graduation week in Los Angeles is a time that should be filled with joy and celebration for students and their […]
June 16, 2025
‘Happy, but tense’: LAUSD graduations continue safely amid regional ICE activity
Top Takeaways Students and families experienced a mix of joy and anxiety before and during ceremonies. Commencements remained safe amid […]
June 14, 2025