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Students walk from Laxson Auditorium on Thursday, March 2, 2023 in Chico, Calif. (Jason Halley/University Photographer/Chico State)

Chico State cuts ties with therapist who counseled both faculty and professor who made alleged gun threats

May 2, 2023 at 12:17 p.m.

Chico State has ended a contract with a mental health counselor hired to help faculty and staff cope with allegations that a biology professor threatened to shoot campus colleagues after...

Planada Elementary School, built in 1955 below flood level, damaged by heavy rains and a levee break on Jan. 6, 2023.

California schools face ‘deep trouble’ as flooding danger looms

April 6, 2023 at 11:18 a.m.

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,...

State delays public release of English, math and science test score results to later this year

September 23, 2022 at 6:55 a.m.

In a significant departure, the California Department of Education is withholding the release of the results of the Smarter Balanced tests that students took last spring until an undetermined date...

San José State University (Photo: Andrew Reed/EdSource)

Former CSU baseball coach sexually and racially harassed players and staff, investigation found

September 8, 2022 at 3:05 p.m.

The investigation is just the latest in a string of sexual harassment and abuse cases involving California State University staff and administrators.

According to experts, a lag in parents filing home-schooling paperwork is adding to enrollment woes. (File Photo: Alison Yin for EdSource)

Enrollment decline: School district officials says families leaving the state or choosing to home-school

July 26, 2022 at 6:17 a.m.

Where have all the students gone?

Curley Wikkeling-Miller teaches cosmetology at both the Peralta District in Oakland and the Solano District in Fairfield. (courtesy EdSource)

Bills to aid community college adjuncts advance in California Assembly

April 8, 2022 at 6:57 a.m.

Two bills designed to improve the working conditions of part-time community college professors were easily approved by the state Assembly Higher Education Committee on Tuesday, but questions remain as to...

Students learn about cosmetology at Solano College. Adjunct faculty, such as this program's instructor, face worsening conditions as enrollment drops and part-time teaching jobs are cut at California’s community colleges. (Andrew Reed/EdSource)

The gig workers of California community colleges face worsening conditions

February 10, 2022 at 12:19 p.m.

Call the part-time instructors who make up two-thirds of classroom teachers in the country’s largest higher-education system what you will. What matters most to them is whether they’re called.

The library at Los Angeles City College. (file photo)

Feds alert colleges nationwide to financial aid scam under investigation at California Community Colleges

September 4, 2021 at 6:55 a.m.

The type of fake-student scams designed to siphon off federal aid and pandemic relief money under scrutiny at California’s Community College system is now being investigated nationwide, federal officials said...

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