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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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Dorsey High has a history of musically talented alumni. But deep cuts to arts funding meant years of students went without music education.
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The U.S. foster system has many flaws, but consistent efforts have paid dividends at Mt. San Antonio College.
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A new analysis shows that the California State University system doesn’t make or receive enough money to cover its costs, even with state support. The report and lawmakers urge the system to increase tuition, but even that might not be enough.
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Attorneys say that last school year the district suspended Black students at rates four times higher than their white peers and suspended students with disabilities twice as often as those without disabilities.
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To watch the sixth grade performance of "The Sound of Music," K-3 students at Rolling Hills Elementary in Fullerton must be accompanied by a parent, and those in grades four through six must have parental permission.
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A Cambodian graduation ceremony at California State University, Long Beach became a moment to honor the ancestors and help heal the still-fresh pain of genocide.
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UC Regents created a working group that will determine how best to open campus jobs to students without work authorization.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is closing and downsizing prisons across the state, putting the future of over 1,000 incarcerated students at risk. College administrators say they have few resources to help.
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A growing number of students nationwide are fighting the government's mandate to serve cow's milk in public schools.
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The California dream of going to community college and transferring to a UC or CSU is broken, experts and researchers say. Few students transfer in two years. Most take six years with many more courses than needed. Others drop out.
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The budget is subject to final approval by the Legislature by mid-June, but the governor seemed confident that dyslexia screening would survive last-minute political wrangling. California is one of only 10 states nationwide that does not screen students for dyslexia.
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President Linda Oubré had more than three years left on her contract. Enrollment and funding problems threaten the future of the storied Southern California college.
