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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 Motivates People to Pursue College?
Fear of student loan debt is a big obstacle to students not only going to college but also to filling […]
July 1, 2025
Teaching Fellows Bring Opportunities to Record Number of Awardees
When the General Assembly restarted the state’s teaching fellows program, it started off small: just five institutions could accept students […]
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
NCSEAA’s Kathy Hastings gives State of the State Address at Financial Aid Summit
Kathy Hastings, Director of Outreach and Communications for the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority, gave the State of the […]
June 26, 2025
CFNC Announces Financial Aid Champions
Financial Aid Champions being honored at the Financial Aid Summit in Winston-Salem on June 18. Photo credit: Robert Kinlaw […]
June 25, 2025
How to help kids cope with ongoing ICE raids, deportations | Quick Guide
Top Takeaways Families should have truthful conversations with children to help process feelings related to ongoing immigration raids. Students who […]
June 25, 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
Flexible Learning and the Policy Challenges
What impact is flexible learning having on learners from K-12 through to professional development? New Zealand has remarkably high levels […]
June 19, 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
Students showed resilience as schools recovered from L.A. fires
Top Takeaways Every student has dealt with different circumstances and is in a unique place academically and emotionally. The fires […]
June 12, 2025
Legislature rejects ‘draconian’ cuts to UC and CSU, keeps TK-12 funding intact
Top Takeaways The Legislature has until June 15 to present their budget bill to the governor. The proposal received praise […]
June 11, 2025