Over the past six years, wildfires have devastated much of California and resulted in learning disruptions for hundreds of thousands of students. According to CalMatters, before the 2015–16 school year, no California school had reported losing 15 days or more to wildfires. Since then, closures […]
Category: Effective Governance
Effective Governance
School boards in action: Commemorating UN vision on universal human rights
Up and down California, local educational agency boards are working tirelessly to make sure students can safely return to campus as quickly as possible in areas that are still in distance learning, and have everything they need to be academically, social-emotionally and physically supported — […]
School boards in action: Advocacy, advocacy, advocacy
Up and down California, local educational agency boards are working tirelessly to make sure students can safely return to campus as quickly as possible in areas that are still in distance learning, and have everything they need to be academically, social-emotionally and physically supported — […]
Legislative Action Week lets board members advocate virtually
More than 370 board members and superintendents representing school districts and county offices of education across the state came together March 15–19 for CSBA’s Legislative Action Week to meet with their state senators and assemblymembers — all from the comfort of their own homes and […]
School boards in action: Equity takes center stage
Up and down California, local educational agency boards are working tirelessly to make sure students can safely return to campus as quickly as possible in areas that are still in distance learning, and have everything they need to be academically, social-emotionally and physically supported — […]
School boards in action: Summer learning on the horizon
Up and down California, local educational agency boards are working tirelessly to make sure students can safely return to campus as quickly as possible in areas that are still in distance learning, and have everything they need to be academically, social-emotionally and physically supported — […]
Conducting the public’s business during the pandemic
By Gregory J. Dannis Nearly 70 years ago, the Ralph M. Brown Act was enacted to guarantee the public’s right to attend and participate in meetings of local legislative bodies. It remained relatively unchanged for about the first half of its existence, but has been […]
School boards in action: Social-emotional and mental health support during the pandemic
In a national survey this summer, more than three in four school social workers reported that a majority of students at their schools needed serious mental health supports in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures, economic hardship and a convergence of other factors. […]
School boards in action: District wellness centers continue playing an important role
Up and down California, local educational agency boards are working tirelessly to make sure students can safely return to campus as quickly as possible in areas that are still in distance learning, and have everything they need to be academically, social-emotionally and physically supported — […]
School boards in action: The digital divide
CSBA knows the challenges our students and school communities are facing and the hard work school boards across the state are putting in to keep students learning and support the goal of reopening schools safely. While calls for reopening schools in districts that have not […]