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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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Los Angeles Unified School District Board candidate Kahllid Al-Alim apologized earlier this week for pre-campaign social media posts that endorsed assigning antisemitic literature to students, and for liking “graphic content.”
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Kahllid Al-Alim, running in Board District 1, apologized Monday for pre-campaign social media posts. The controversy could scramble the district’s most crowded school board race.
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Funding reductions would effectively eliminate housing support program.
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State officials want to prepare more Californians for good jobs — those that pay a stable, living wage and offer other benefits, such as a pathway for promotions. The state has spent roughly $370 million on these workforce programs, but the results are mixed.
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"It's moral hazard if you're only doing debt relief, but I believe we're balancing it out with accountability on colleges," says Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.Listen 5:55
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If the U.S. Senate passes a bill to expand the Child Tax Credit, more than 2 million children in California could benefit.
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The union had reached a deal in late January after being on strike for one day. As details of that agreement slowly emerged, many members urged leaders to go back to the bargaining table.
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Pointing to dismal test scores, veteran lawmaker and a coalition of advocacy groups introduce AB 2222.
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When parents without Social Security numbers try to fill out the aid application on behalf of their children, they are blocked from continuing.
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The policy is intended to ease yearslong tensions from forcing traditional public schools to share space and resources with charter schools.
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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.
