UC admissions increase but elite campuses stay selective
The University of California admitted more California residents for the upcoming fall term than last year, but not at the system’s most exclusive campuses.
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What to know about California’s English learners
About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools speak a language other than English at home and were not fluent in English when they first started school — 1,918,385 students — according...
School districts don’t heed federal advice to bar police from enforcing school rules
Policing experts say that discipline is the responsibility of school administrators, not law enforcement.
What does threatened federal funding do for California K-12 schools?
The U.S. Department of Education alarmed school leaders last week by threatening to withhold federal funding from schools and colleges that do not abandon “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs. President Donald Trump...
Flat test scores leave California far behind pre-COVID levels of achievement
In the second year fully back in school after remote learning, California school districts made negligible progress overall in reversing the steep declines in test scores that have lingered since...
Many California districts yet to spend federal Covid relief despite deep, widespread learning loss
alifornia school districts so far have used only a third of the $2.7 billion that the federal government set aside to address the well-documented learning setbacks caused by Covid, state...
Amid pockets of rising student homelessness, California districts tap Covid funding to help families
An injury forced the family of five to live in a leaky 1995 RV with a malfunctioning plumbing system during one of California’s wettest seasons in decades.
California schools face ‘deep trouble’ as flooding danger looms
Schools in flood-prone areas, in some cases protected by aging, weakened levees with poor safety ratings, face possible floods similar to those that have already swept through schools in Alameda,...
Preliminary glimpse at test scores shows steep declines in reading, math
Recently released test scores from some of California’s largest school districts — representing more than 1 million students — offer a preview of what’s likely to be steep drops in...
California schools grapple with how, when or if to reopen campuses
Counties fall into that tier if they report more than an average of seven new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people per day during the preceding week or if more than...
