Education

Newsom, Legislature Settle For Final Passage This Week Of 2023-24 Budget With Fewer Cuts For K-12

Child care is the big winner in a final deal that includes a small decline in total funding for schools and community colleges for the first time in years.

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California Parents Fed Up With Schools Want To Make High-Quality Education A Constitutional Right

Advocates supporting a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to a high-quality education say they want to hold schools accountable. But critics fear its vague language could unleash a barrage of lawsuits.

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California’s Most Vulnerable Students May Be Seeing Increased Funding Soon

Some say the proposed increase should include transparency measures.

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Proposition 28 A Windfall For Arts Education, But Implementation Poses Challenges

In arts education, as in the arts, experts say, collaboration is often the key. A small school in a rural district might join forces with another school to share a dance teacher, for example.

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How The STARS College Network Will Help California’s Rural Students

The University of Southern California and Caltech have joined the STARS College Network, alongside 14 other schools across the country, with hopes of improving rural students' access to information about college and increasing enrollment on campus.

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California Voters May Again Vote On Whether To Bring Back Affirmative Action, But In Limited Form

Though voters soundly rejected an effort to legalize affirmative action in California in 2020, state Democrats are trying again, proposing a limited version that would allow state agencies to consider race if academic research shows evidence those race-based programs could work. Familiar political battle lines are forming.

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One Group Of Students Fled Community College In Record Numbers During The Pandemic. Can These Schools Lure Them Back?

Community colleges saw record declines in enrollment during the pandemic, but students 50 years and older fell the farthest. Now, some colleges are trying to reel them back in.

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California Charter School Students Outperform District School 'Twins' In National Study

Analysis by research institute CREDO, based at Stanford, found little difference for white, Asian and special education students but strong progress by Black and Hispanic students attending Aspire and other charter management organizations.