Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

The Ocean View School District in Huntington Beach expects to spend up to $13 million to pay for costs related to asbestos clean up at three campuses.

Some colleges and universities partner with banks to issue bank cards that students can use as checking accounts and to receive and spend financial aid money.

The Student Success Initiative holds community college students more accountable for completing their studies. Students have to pick a major their first year.

The latest graduation rates released by the U.S. Department of Education show that California is doing better than some states in selected measures but worse in others.

Researchers say that explaining how to do an assignment and why an assignment will help them helps disadvantaged and minority students stay in college and graduate.

Cal State Northridge wants to apply tougher admissions standards starting in the fall, citing a budget that limits the number of classes it can offer.

With University of California tuition and housing costs increasing, students feel squeezed and hunger becomes part of campus life.

A judge is ordering California officials to get involved in fixing scheduling and class assignment problems, which he says unconstitutionally deprived students.

A little more than more than 95.5 percent of high school seniors passed the California high school exit exam, but a gap still remains among ethnic groups.

About 500 people gathered in Los Angeles's Leimert Park to protest the killing of teen Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri.

Isidro Medrano Garcia was charged Thursday with five felony counts after being arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl a decade ago and sexually assaulting her for years.

Temperatures reaching 88 degrees was the greatest obstacles to tens of thousands of runners at the L.A. Marathon on Sunday. About 1,000 sought medical attention.