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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 new course at Anaheim Union High School District teaches Korean American history while encouraging students to learn their family's past.
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California’s ‘failure to protect’ law allows child welfare agencies to take kids from households scarred by domestic violence. Advocates say the separation can worsen a family’s trauma.
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California is spending almost $5 billion to address a growing youth mental health crisis. In Los Angeles County, a contract with teletherapy provider Hazel Health is funding free therapy sessions for all interested students.
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The longstanding public servant will spend her last year before retirement overseeing the board that steers the education of more than 400,000 students.
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Not every song came out in 2023, but that doesn’t make the act of discovery any less special.
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More than a dozen students talked to LAist about how music powered them through pre-calculus homework, helped them navigate the perpetual question of who you are in the world, and gave life “more vibes.”
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An English professor convinced her that she had a story worth telling — and the capacity to write professionally.
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Current metrics don't fully capture needs and outcomes.
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In 2020, the state agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit that claimed too many students were not learning to read. As part of that agreement, the state spent more than $50 million on 75 schools with the lowest reading scores.
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A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, from homework trackers to test-taking software, even license plate readers
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For more than 50 years, the California Chicano News Media Association-California Latino Journalists participated in the rise of Latinos in journalism in California and the United States.
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As coursework has moved online, college students face pervasive tracking and are banding together to protect their privacy. Here are steps individual students can take to safeguard their personal information.
