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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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At the end of the 2022-2023 school year, we're profiling students who fought for something they believed in and made a difference.
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Teacher turnover is high at schools with large numbers of students living in poverty. Now California is pouring billions of dollars into two programs: One subsidizes college students in credentialing programs and the other offers money to districts that want to create community schools.
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Mt. San Antonio College owns seven Cessnas at Brackett Air Field, where students learn to fly.
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Dual-immersion programs sometimes take longer to get students proficient in English, but those students often catch up with or surpass English programs over time.
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Last year, California created a $500 million program to help prepare students for careers. With the state facing a $31.5 billion budget deficit, lawmakers want to claw back $400 million of the program.
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There were 16,491 new teaching credentials issued in California in 2021-22, the most recent fiscal year data available. The previous year, the state bestowed 19,659 such credentials.
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It’s going to take more than one conversation.
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Colleges keep applicants waiting, sometimes into the summer, to meet their enrollment targets. Some parents want more transparency in return.
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Nearly a third of all assessments given were for grade levels K-6, though not a single student during those five years was below eighth grade.
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Assembly Bill 873, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, would direct the state’s Instructional Quality Commission to incorporate media literacy into K-12 curriculum in English language arts, math, science, history and social studies frameworks.
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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.
