Seal on diploma will be badge of honor for civically active California students
BY JOHN FENSTERWALD, EdSource Rebel, the 20-foot tall mural of a Civil war soldier carrying a rifle, may soon be sanded and scraped off the gym wall and into the dustbin of history at Savanna High in...
View ArticleCal State warns of tuition hike if state funds dip; upholds plan to cut...
By LARRY GORDON, EdSource The governing body of the Cal State University system in effect upheld an education reform plan that eliminates non-credit remedial courses and overhauls math requirements,...
View ArticleCalifornia moves to curtail expelling children from preschool — yes, preschool
By LEE ROMNEY, EdSource After successfully reducing expulsions in its K-12 schools, California is now moving to restrict the practice with even younger children — at the preschool level. To that end,...
View ArticleCalifornia at bottom in nationwide ranking of accountability systems; state...
By John Fensterwald, EdSource Another prominent education research and advocacy organization that disapproves of California’s approach to school accountability has ranked California’s new system at the...
View ArticleGov. Brown’s plan for online-only community college provokes pushback
By Mikhail Zinshteyn, EdSource Leaders within the California Community College system are objecting to Gov. Jerry Brown’s push to create a new online-only community college. Both faculty leaders and...
View ArticleAfter hours of testimony, California state board rejects two history...
By THERESA HARRINGTON, EdSource After hours of testimony, the state Board of Education rejected two history textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, but approved 10 others based on new history social...
View ArticleCalifornia has millions of good-paying jobs for workers without a bachelor’s...
By MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN, EdSource Workers who want to earn at least $35,000 a year increasingly need to have some training beyond high school but not necessarily a bachelor’s degree. That’s the conclusion...
View ArticleLeading Democratic candidates for California governor back universal preschool
BY LOUIS FREEDBERG AND ASHLEY HOPKINSON, EDSOURCE In what would be a significant shift from Gov. Jerry Brown’s position on early education, the four leading Democratic candidates running to replace...
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Songs about computer coding? It’s what happens when an arts school adds STEM...
By GEORGE WHITE, EdSource When Zane D’Amico enrolled at Renaissance Arts Academy in 2011, he expected the Los Angeles charter school to help him enhance his skills as a cellist. What he didn’t expect...
View ArticleYoung and homeless in America: Survey says the problem is worsening
By Carolyn Jones, EdSource More than 4 percent of adolescents and 10 percent of young adults nationwide were living on the street, in cars or shelters, or couch-surfing at some point in the last year,...
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6 Cal State campuses aim to reduce freshman dropout rates as part of...
By Larry Gordon, EdSource The letter alerting Cal State Northridge students that they were being put on academic probation was pretty blunt and scary: shape up or risk getting kicked out. Enter a...
View ArticleFizz! Pop! Bang! Teachers find new science standards fun, but costly
By CAROLYN JONES, EdSource With their emphasis on hands-on experiments, California’s new science standards have turned classrooms into noisy, messy laboratories. That’s been popular with students and...
View ArticleNew California law expands low-income parents’ access to subsidized child care
By ASHLEY HOPKINSON, EdSource In an effort to remove obstacles for Californians trying to succeed in the labor market, a new law could make access to child care easier for low-income parents taking...
View Article1 in 4 California school districts required to get county help based on new...
By John Fensterwald, EdSource One in 4 California school districts received notice that they must work with county offices of education or with a new state agency to improve the education of at least...
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More than 1 in 10 California students are ‘chronically absent’
By LEE ROMNEY and DANIEL J. WILLIS, EdSource California education officials have released school-level data that shows that last year more than 1 in 10 students were chronically absent, defined as...
View ArticleWind tunnels and sheep brains: Students get their STEM wings at this L.A. school
By MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN, EdSource At her aerospace engineering elective, high school senior Keren Araujo shows off the latest creation. “We’re designing airfoils — they’re like the wings of a plane,”...
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Online-only California community college to target ‘stranded workers’
By Louis Freedberg, EdSource With time running out on his governorship, Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing California’s 114-campus community college system to create one more college: a new fully online...
View ArticleHow one California school district, Covina-Valley Unified, narrowed its...
By Carolyn Jones, EdSource Last year, a girl in Melody Gonzalez’s class at Las Palmas Middle School, in the San Gabriel Valley, started sobbing in class one day. Gonzales asked her what was wrong. The...
View ArticleYoung, gay and living on the street: LGBT youth face increased odds of...
By CAROLYN JONES, EdSource Throughout high school and college, Alicia slept in cars, tents, friends’ couches, benches, on the bus, on the train and in group homes. Almost anywhere but a shelter. “My...
View ArticleDespite legalization, California colleges stick to their marijuana bans
By Nico Savidge, EdSource Students at UC San Diego don’t need to go far if they want to take part in California’s new recreational marijuana market: Torrey Holistics, a dispensary that sells cannabis...
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