By Andrew Keller Teams from a select cohort of four school districts in rent-burdened communities around the state met at Selma Community Housing in Los Angeles Oct. 13 for the launch of a pilot CSBA workshop series designed to help convert existing school property into […]
State and national assessment data released on Oct. 24 confirms the decline in results that were expected in the first full administration of these tests since the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into turmoil. California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), also known as […]
Ken Mintz, board president, San Ramon Valley Unified School District What does your district have planned for the 2022–23 school year to foster learning recovery and educational advancements? We offer multiple options to foster learning recovery and educational advancement options for our students. All of […]
Despite record education funding levels, fiscal challenges remain, according to a fact sheet released Sept. 28 by the Public Policy Institute of California. State K-12 funding increased nearly 50 percent between 2017–18 and 2021–22, and with state, local and federal funding combined, public schools received […]
Data found in a new report on developing strategies for teacher retention and recruitment in California “should be a wakeup call for all of us,” according to Tyrone Howard, faculty director at UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS). A Sept. 27 webinar “Voices […]
Among the findings of the first installment of Tyton Partners’ School Disrupted 2022 series, Pandemic Driven Decline in K-12 Public School Enrollment Continues, is that a “seismic shift” has occurred in K-12 enrollment as some parents opt for homeschooling programs, charter or private schools to […]
Local educational agencies statewide planned to provide technology, assess student learning, implement tiered levels of support and prioritize services for special student populations during the 2020–21 school year, but methods of doing so largely varied across districts, according to recent research. The most notable differences […]
Existing legislation contains a provision allowing for one career technical education (CTE) course to count toward the California high school graduation requirement, granting CTE the same status as classes in the visual and performing arts and foreign languages. That provision, established for the 2012–13 school […]
California’s Students in Foster Care: Challenges and Promising Practices, a report released by the Learning Policy Institute in July 2022, considers statewide pre-pandemic education data and conversations with county offices of education foster youth services coordinators to find promising practices that can implemented. In 2018–19, […]
A packed agenda at the Oct. 12–14 California Commission on Teacher Credentialing meeting saw the adoption of two milestone markers on the road to replacing the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) and establishing a new credential for PK-3 teachers. The meeting also saw approval of […]
