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A rise in antisemitism complaints in K-12 schools prompted a California law creating an agency to educate school staff and investigate cases.
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Hundreds of California schools won the National Blue Ribbon honor before the program ended in August.Listen 0:46
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As UC leaders grapple with how to respond to research grant cuts and a potential billion-dollar penalty, some are taking a defensive stand.
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Trump has cut billions of dollars in science research grants. Now universities have to try to get the money back in a little-known court.
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UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.Listen 4:33
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“Norm Day” — the process by which a district re-aligns its teacher workforce to account for changes in enrollment — is a long-standing practice that’s rankled parents and educators for decades.
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Ethnic studies was supposed to start this fall. But the state cut funding for it and fights erupted over who is included in the curriculum.
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A district letter to families at one elementary school prompted the civil rights organization to take a closer look at district policies.
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Newly revealed data shows that hundreds of thousands of Californians are struggling to make their monthly student loan payments.
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Alberto Carvalho will lead the nation’s second-largest school district for the next four years.
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Districts are preparing to add the course by the 2027-28 academic year, mandated by AB 2927.
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The unions that represent teachers, principals, support staff and construction workers have protested what they say is a lack of progress on new contracts.
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Air quality regulator South Coast AQMD is swapping out old school buses with electric ones.
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Test scores went up last year for California K-12 students. But chronic absenteeism and English learner progress rates remained stagnant.
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To increase student representation, UC student leaders are pushing for the second seat to also have voting power.
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California has made a new grade, transitional kindergarten, available for all four-year-olds. LAist reporters spent a day in three schools to find out what students do in class.
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A Chrome browser tool features a movable bubble that provides information without typing a prompt, spurring a rise in AI cheating on tests.
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A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.
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A state school advisory agency finds ongoing funding is needed to support public schools damaged by January’s wildfires.
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Lucille J. Smith Elementary was one of 31 California schools to be nominated as a National Blue Ribbon School.
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The Reseda high schooler has been in federal immigration detention since August.
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Hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District schools will start serving supper to anyone 18 and under.
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Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them.
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Faculty filed a public records lawsuit to get details of a negotiation that has mostly taken place behind closed doors.
