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California’s graduation rates reached a decade high last school year, while chronic absenteeism and suspensions continued to decline.
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What started as a strategy to integrate campuses can now feel like an opaque competition to get into a select group of schools.
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Enrollment has declined for more than two decades and the district is spending more money than it brings in.
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On July 1, the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment will be replaced with a performance assessment to ensure teachers are prepared to teach students to read.
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Most community college students aspire to earn a bachelor’s degree, but few manage to transfer.
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Republicans want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide health care, food benefits and financial assistance for millions of children.
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The study, published in JAMA, followed teens for years and evaluated addictive behaviors, as well as suicidality.Listen 3:33
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Two lawsuits, in courts in Sacramento and Los Angeles, advance the argument that adjunct professors should be paid more for the work they perform.
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The state offers multiple pathways toward completing its requirements, but many students who enter the teaching profession still risk getting into debt, even before accounting for cost of living.
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Four months after the Los Angeles Unified School District banned cellphones, educators say students are less distracted and more talkative. But that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily following the rules.Listen 46:11
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On top of offering more programs, Los Angeles Unified also seeks to reassure families about protections against federal immigration enforcement.
