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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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The current base pay for Cal State campus presidents ranges from $370,000 to more than $500,000.
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The idea is to cover the same curriculum in half the time of a traditional 16-week course.
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Thousands of University of California campus and health center employees are on a two-day strike after stalled negotiations.Listen 0:37
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Staff recommend heavy cuts, which represent about 16% of the district’s projected budget.Listen 3:50
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The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding.
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Air quality regulator South Coast AQMD is swapping out old school buses with electric ones.Listen 0:41
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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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California will get the federal money withheld for after-school programs, but spending must comply with Trump’s priorities.
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Indiscriminate raids. Removal of U.S. citizens. Pressure to leave the country. For UC Irvine professor and evolutionary biologist Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, the answer is yes.
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Local and state leaders are targeting the region of 4.6 million people for economic growth
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The efforts are funded largely by a 2022 state allocation and other grants. The goal: protect students from pollution and heat, and teach ecology.
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Charter advocates had sued the district over a recent policy that discourages co-locations on some kinds of campuses.
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Despite fears the federal government will use personal information from financial aid applications to identify immigrant parents who lack legal status, the number of high school senior applicants from mixed-status families has not decreased as much as some thought it would, according to the California Student Aid Commission.
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Federal programs like Upward Bound and Talent Search enroll about 100,000 Californians. Can funding survive the bitter partisan divide?
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School vouchers are going national and the federal student loan system is getting an overhaul. Here's what to know.
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Most schools are relying on existing policies that allow for individual accommodations. But some are also tapping into lessons from the pandemic.
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Dependiendo a quién se le pregunte, las escuelas chárter representan o bien una amenaza existencial a las escuelas públicas, o un modelo innovador para el aprendizaje.
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Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success.
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Starting this school year, school districts must provide information about CalKIDS, the California Kids Investment and Development Savings program.
