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Fear and resilience: Transgender students express concerns over Trump’s anti-trans policies
Since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, he has unleashed a barrage of policies aimed at erasing […]
July 23, 2025
LAUSD celebrates student progress, reaffirms support for immigrant communities
Top Takeaways Superintendent Alberto Carvalho affirmed support for all students in the face of immigration enforcement at the Opening of […]
July 23, 2025
Inland Empire confronts obstacles to sending students to college
Top Takeaways The region’s college-going rate is low, and only 31% of students who attend community college transfer to a […]
July 22, 2025
Justice for decades-old crimes is costing today’s students
Across California, school districts are confronting an impossible truth: the cost of justice for past wrongs is being paid out […]
July 21, 2025
California releases long-awaited teacher data, revealing demographic shifts
Top Takeaways The number of teachers in the state increased to 285,891 since the 2019-20 school year. Hispanic teachers increased […]
July 18, 2025
UC regents appear to support future tuition increases, but are skeptical of bigger ones
Top Takeaways UC is likely to continue raising tuition for each incoming class and then freezing the cost for that […]
July 18, 2025
Students with discrimination complaints left in limbo, months after California civil rights office closed
K.D. was just starting to believe that the racial harassment her daughter had experienced at school for the last three […]
July 16, 2025
How mariachi programs keep students like me culturally connected in college
As a student of Mexican, Guatemalan and Salvadoran heritage at UC Berkeley, adjusting to life at a prestigious institution has […]
July 16, 2025
Buffeted by change, California charter schools continue to grow amid scrutiny
Top Takeaways Charter schools’ enrollment has grown slowly since the pandemic, while overall public school enrollment has declined significantly. Most […]
July 14, 2025
How my twin helped me excel in high school and college
In my junior year of high school, I walked up to the batter’s box at Oracle Park — the same […]
July 14, 2025
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
Third Financial Aid Summit Highlights Importance of College Outreach
Photo credit Robert Kinlaw. The third North Carolina Financial Aid Summit kicked off June 17 at the Benton Convention Center […]
July 10, 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
Trump’s law reshapes federal loans and Pell Grants, impacting California students
Top Takeaways The law blocks graduate students from taking out new Grad PLUS loans and caps Parent PLUS loans starting […]
July 9, 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