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Cal State wants to offer bigger raises to campus presidents while cutting elsewhere

The current base pay for Cal State campus presidents ranges from $370,000 to more than $500,000.

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Long Beach City College is pioneering accelerated 8-week classes

The idea is to cover the same curriculum in half the time of a traditional 16-week course.

A sign near the entry to a multo-story parking garage reads: Long Beach City College, Liberal Arts Campus

UC nursing union scores a new deal, and another union goes on strike

Thousands of University of California campus and health center employees are on a two-day strike after stalled negotiations.

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Pasadena Unified weighs tens of millions in budget cuts to athletics, arts and libraries

Staff recommend heavy cuts, which represent about 16% of the district’s projected budget.

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Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules

The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding.

People outside hold up signs that say "Kill the cuts, Save lives."

Nearly 300 high-polluting school buses will be taken off the streets in SoCal school districts

Air quality regulator South Coast AQMD is swapping out old school buses with electric ones.

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A yellow school bus with green wheels is a parked next to several other buses. The side of the bus reads Los Angeles Unified and there are palm trees in the background.

Has student improvement plateaued in California? New Dashboard shows modest gains

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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As tuition keeps increasing, UC students want a bigger say on the Board of Regents

To increase student representation, UC student leaders are pushing for the second seat to also have voting power.

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California schools now offer free preschool for 4-year-olds. Here's what kids really learn in it

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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His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?

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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