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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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The gap exists across industries but is bigger in higher-paying fields, leading to more calls for policies that aid women in the workforce.
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Over 100 students from Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo learned life-changing lessons (and maybe even burnished their career prospects).
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Los Angeles County granted the first ever unicorn license to a local first grader last December with one caveat— first she had to find one.
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Every year we look back on the important stories of the past 12 months — and look ahead to the stories in the new year.
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The 2023 survey also marks the second year of the district’s four-year strategic plan under Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who garnered approval from two-thirds of survey respondents.
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The financial aid application for undocumented students is cumbersome and confusing, and many students aren’t completing the forms. A new law streamlines the process.
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The principal of George Washington Carver Elementary has won several education awards and has a legal background. Francisca Owoaje has supporters but is also the subject of complaints from parents and staff.
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The number of nursing students enrolling in high-priced private programs has nearly doubled over the past 10 years as the state’s public universities have stagnated in growth.
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Conflicts this year at CSU Fullerton and Cal Poly Pomona show divisions between administration and faculty members.
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To create an education system that has stable funds for mental health, California educators and leaders are turning to the health system and launching a statewide behavioral health initiative to fill funding gaps in fluctuating, sometimes unpredictable school budgets.
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The district’s voluntary learning days provide child care, meals, and an opportunity for students to catch up academically.
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Educators say they can’t help students catch up if they’re not in the classroom and schools with lower average attendance can lose state funding.
