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The 74
April 28, 2018
This update on the Every Student Succeeds Act and the education plans now being refined by state legislatures is produced in partnership with ESSA Essentials, a new series from the Collaborative for Student Success. It's an offshoot of their ESSA Advance newsletter, which you can sign up for here!
Patch.com
April 28, 2018
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA — Sex education. It's a taboo subject for many. One Orange County school district is still working on how to integrate the lessons mandated by the state, entitled the California Healthy Youth Act of 2015 into middle school and high school classrooms. The Capistrano UnifiedÃâà...
KABC-TV
April 28, 2018
There were two empty podiums on stage at the Gubernatorial Education Forum in Ontario for the frontrunners in the race - Democrat Gavin Newsom and ... The forum was hosted by the California State PTA and with parents and teachers in the audience, almost all the questions were about education.
yourcentralvalley.com
April 26, 2018
MERCED COUNTY, Calif. - Each week in partnership with the Merced County Office of Education we highlight North Valley leaders and programs specializing in early childhood education. The county's preschool program has as trick to teaching their students in the best way possible. The CaliforniaÃâà...
LA Daily News
April 16, 2018
How important is K-12 public education to California voters as they choose a new governor this year? Very. And that sentiment is ... “There's concern when it comes to the overall educational system, but when we ask them about their specific schools they think very positively of them. It's not very shocking toÃâà...
Modesto Bee
April 13, 2018
Many might think California schools are getting enough money with recent increases for education and the Proposition 98 funding guarantee. It's true the state has nearly restored funding levels to what they were before the Great Recession. Yet in most places, those gains aren't keeping up with increasesÃâà...
Billings Gazette
April 13, 2018
Salato grew up in New York and started teaching in California in 1987, working in several school districts in general education and special education. She became a principal in 1999 at the Beaumont Unified School District outside Los Angeles and became the district's director of instructional supportÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 13, 2018
Every Student Succeeds is the Obama administration's 2015 replacement for the No Child Left Behind Act. The law is supposed to hold states accountable for giving all students a decent education. Where No Child primarily used test scores to evaluate the success of schools, ESSA gives states moreÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 13, 2018
The latter numbers are nothing to brag about, and California remains among the states at the lower levels of overall educational attainment in the NAEP ... ago, against Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, a Richmond Democrat favored by the California Teachers Association and other elements of the educationÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
April 13, 2018
An overwhelming majority of Californians say K-12 education is important to them in the 2018 governor's race, but only slightly more than half are paying close attention to news about the candidates. The head of the Public Policy Institute of California suggests the results of a new statewide education pollÃâà...
LA Daily News
April 13, 2018
When people arriving have relatively low levels of education, then the 'California Dream' is more typically achieved by the children of the immigrant generation that entered the farm workforce, explains Martin, the UC Davis professor. “And that would've been true of the Chinese, the Japanese and manyÃâà...
Santa Maria Times
April 13, 2018
Hosted in partnership with the city of Santa Maria and California Alliance for Arts Education, Thursday morning's breakfast served to launch of Santa Maria Arts Now Community. Designed as an alliance between the Santa Maria-Bonita and Santa Maria Joint Union High school districts, parents andÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 10, 2018
But while that improvement largely came from the increased scores of the highest-performing students, California eighth-graders showed some reading ... Ryan Smith, executive director of the Education Trust — West, an Oakland-based nonprofit that fights for educational equity, partially credited the effectsÃâà...
East Bay Times
April 10, 2018
Gema Quetzal Cardenas, an Oakland student leader, will represent California's 6.2 million students as the student representative on the state Board of Education. Cardenas, a junior at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in the Oakland Unified School District, said she is most concerned about the threatÃâà...
OCRegister
March 31, 2018
Educational accountability is paramount because it tells us if we are meeting our academic goals. How will we be able to measure our progress and make corrections if the reporting system is not understandable? Clarity is important not only for the education professionals who create the system but also forÃâà...
OCRegister
March 31, 2018
Educational accountability is paramount because it tells us if we are meeting our academic goals. How will we be able to measure our progress and make corrections if the reporting system is not understandable? Clarity is important not only for the education professionals who create the system but also forÃâà...
Ventura County Star
March 26, 2018
California education finances are an unholy mess — with incomprehensible budget formulas, equity funding that doesn't produce equity, and cuts to schools even during the current economic expansion. And our state's so-called education leaders refuse to fix the system. We should let the kids fix it instead.
Press-Enterprise
March 26, 2018
Status Update: Work starts on RUHS medical complex; Taco Bell expands educational program ... Philip Mulder has joined Bank of Southern California as vice president of business development and will be responsible for providing SBA and commercial lending to small- and medium-sized businesses inÃâà...
fox5sandiego.com
March 26, 2018
SAN DIEGO -- Gubernatorial candidates discussed education, gun reform and more at a forum held in San Diego Sunday morning. In the debate, the two Republican candidates rejected any policies that might make it difficult for law-abiding people to obtain certain types of firearms, the San DiegoÃâà...
California Forward Reporting
March 26, 2018
For every dollar invested in correctional education, research shows a return or four to five dollars, according to a report released by Corrections to College California. Providing a college education to incarcerated individuals can save the state millions through reduced recidivism rates and increased earningÃâà...
OCRegister
March 26, 2018
It would create an Office of Higher Education Performance and Accountability to plan how California is to meet its ever-rising demand for post-high school education and coordinate the state's three college and university systems. However, if history is any guide, AB1936 is doomed. At least seven other billsÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
March 26, 2018
We are disappointed in the California Supreme Court's decision, and we are also concerned about the decision's potential impact on higher education in California and beyond. Student safety remains a top priority for UCLA. The university is committed to providing an environment that is conducive toÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
March 21, 2018
LOS ANGELES — A former student is suing a Southern California community college and the football player convicted of raping her, accusing the school of allowing the young man to attend school despite a previous sexual assault conviction. The woman's attorneys announced the lawsuit Monday againstÃâà...
EdSource
March 21, 2018
If U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos decides to repeal Obama-era school discipline reform guidance — which she's often hinted at, most recently during a 60 Minutes interview — the action could hamper discipline reform efforts in districts throughout California, especially in those where the pace ofÃâà...
EdSource
March 21, 2018
The forum was sponsored by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a research and policy collaboration jointly run by USC, UC Davis and Stanford University, and the Center for Education Policy, Equity and Governance, a new institute at the USC Rossier School of Education. The forum wasÃâà...
University of California
March 21, 2018
When it comes to economic growth and educational excellence, California has a secret weapon: its 56,000 University of California graduate students. They are the workhorses behind UC's prowess in education and research — helping teach undergraduates, conducting original research and makingÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
March 20, 2018
Just as often, they explain that universities don't really need the missing funds because of the money-saving role and educational benefits of new educational technology. This solution has re-emerged in this budget year. Our example is California, where we are again hearing claims that online will soon beÃâà...
OCRegister
March 20, 2018
Cities throughout our state have been using Orwellian tactics to “suppress” opposition to tax increases through coordinated and premeditated “education campaigns.” These campaigns operate in a grey legal area because each campaign uses public resources to accomplish its goals. The CaliforniaÃâà...
89.3 KPCC
March 20, 2018
There's been a push to expand arts education in California in recent years. New numbers out today from Create CA, one of the groups behind that effort, paint a mixed picture: while some headway has been made, it's been slow. Overall, the number of students who participate in the arts increased from 38 toÃâà...
WTOP
March 18, 2018
File - In this Oct. 4, 2010, file photo, Seaside City Council member Dennis Alexander speaks during an election forum in Seaside, Calif. ... SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) — A teacher at a Northern California high school has apologized for accidentally firing a gun inside his classroom, causing minor injuries to threeÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 17, 2018
The state Board of Education on Thursday agreed to sponsor the charter of College Preparatory Middle School in La Mesa. The board voted 9-2 at its meeting in Sacramento to oversee the petition for the next five years of the fifth- through eighth-grade public charter school that operates out of the basementÃâà...
WTOP
March 16, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An attorney and immigrant rights activist is the first person living in the U.S. illegally to be named to a statewide appointment in the nation's most populous state, California's Senate leader announced Wednesday. The Senate Rules Committee appointed Lizbeth Mateo to be anÃâà...
Visalia Times-Delta
March 16, 2018
Law enforcement and community colleges are partnering to reduce recidivism through education, adding more programs that prepare inmates for life on the outside. "We are so ... Roughly 1,500 inmates — more than half of Corcoran's prison population — are enrolled in the prison's educational program.
EdSource
March 15, 2018
California could be close to resolving differences with the federal government over the education plan it is required to submit to receive federal funding for low-income students. But the State Board of Education on Wednesday put off voting on revisions that its staff have negotiated with federal officials toÃâà...
OCRegister
March 7, 2018
Azfar Quddus and Carolyn Rodriguez-Quddus make a statement to the media during a press conference in Anaheim on Thursday, Jan 11, 2018. The Qudduses are parents of a seventh grade boy whose teacher distributed disparaging information about Muslims and Islam taken from an IslamophobicÃâà...
EdSource
March 7, 2018
After a high-level, face-to-face meeting in Washington and continued negotiations, state officials are expressing confidence that the federal Department of Education will approve California's plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act and avert a standoff with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos overÃâà...
Asbarez Armenian News
March 6, 2018
The Armenian Relief Society of Western USA, Regional Executive traveled to Northern California on February 23 for a three-day trip to visit and meet with ... to parents for entrusting the education of their children to the ARS one-day school and to the school's teachers for their commitment and dedication.
LA School Report
March 6, 2018
California's funding formula tries to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged youth — but how is the money spent? ... Brown's budget proposal includes new language aimed at increasing transparency around the law, but advocates like Lucia and an education researcher told The Chronicle of SocialÃâà...
California Healthline
March 6, 2018
The public insurance program has evolved so that it now finances myriad education-related services, including transportation for kids with disabilities, school clinics and counseling for children from turbulent backgrounds. Medicaid funds are now woven into the nation's educational system. But as CongressÃâà...
WOWK
March 6, 2018
Any left-over funds will be donated to the three unions on strike: West Virginia Education Association, AFT- West Virginia and the West Virginia School Service Personnel Association. I am the president of United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,200 certificated and classified educators, and aÃâà...
NBC Southern California
March 5, 2018
Queen, a middle school math teacher in South Central Los Angeles, founded Music Notes - a program that fuses mathematics with music. The company's goal is to "increase student engagement in school by providing high quality educational music and videos to educators and their students." "This is what IÃâà...
EdSource
February 22, 2018
It suggests that California make early childhood education affordable for all children from birth to age 5, build a well-qualified workforce and improve the quality of all preschool and child care programs. To meet these goals, the report suggests that the state establish universal preschool for all 4-year-olds,Ãâà...
EdSource
February 21, 2018
A compendium of three dozen new studies on California education, involving dozens of researchers, will be released in June, in time to help shape the debate in state elections in November and ... Arnold Schwarzenegger and the bipartisan Governor's Committee on Educational Excellence commissioned.
EdSource
February 13, 2018
The California Department of Education's charter schools division has a major advisory role in State Board of Education decisions on charter school issues. ... The division also manages the Dissemination Grant Program, which provides funds to charter schools to share best educational practices with otherÃâà...
Visalia Times-Delta
December 31, 1999
Student access to arts education in California is growing, but the state isn't where it needs to be, according to a recently completed project by ... have been few opportunities to analyze arts education data in a coordinated effort to identify and help address educational inequities at the secondary school level.
EdSource
December 31, 1999
The California State Board of Education appears to have found a way to thread the needle, delivering a revised ESSA plan designed to satisfy the U.S. ... of school and student success, California's new system encourages school behaviors that enhance educational opportunity and support greater equity.
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
"It sounds to me like they are trying to make changes to the plan without making changes to the system," said Carrie Hahnel, deputy director of research and policy at the Education Trust-West, an Oakland-based advocacy group focused on educational equity. "What that communicates to me is they'reÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
December 31, 1999
Almost 630,000 students attended California public charter schools at the start of this school year — about one in every 10 students, according to new data from the California Department of Education. ... Opponents say they take away funds from traditional public schools, increasing educational disparities.
Inside Higher Ed
December 31, 1999
If that happens, California will be the only state that is not a member of SARA -- a regulatory framework that makes it simpler for colleges and universities to gain state-level approval to offer online education across the U.S.. Marshall Hill, executive director of the National Council for SARA, said the team thatÃâà...
