On Aug. 14, CSBA led a breakout session at the California Department of Education’s (CDE) Housing Summit: Policy Solutions to Address the Affordability Crisis, where leaders in the building trades and commerce sectors joined with education leaders to discuss opportunities and barriers to creating education […]
By CSBA Principal Research Manager, Angela Asch School safety is an important and complex issue. From the physical infrastructure of school facilities to student well-being and mental health, safety issues run the gamut. Governance teams play a unique role in leading the way in fostering […]
Children and young people in California and across the U.S. have been struggling with their mental health, but many are unable to get the help they need. Between 2019 and 2021, about one third of California teens experienced serious psychological distress, with a 20 percent […]
On May 28, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Administration revealed elements of proposed changes to his Proposition 98 funding maneuver in response to CSBA’s objections and advocacy, which generated nearly 30,000 emails to the Governor and Legislature. Most welcome was the change by the Governor to no […]
As states around the country — 15 at the time of this writing — sue the federal government over LGBTQ protections in its Title IX rule released in April, a new survey from The Trevor Project revealed that 39 percent of LGBTQ young people have […]
Media literacy resources and Model School Library Standards as they relate to curriculum framework revisions were among the topics discussed at the May 16 Instructional Quality Commission meeting. Commissioners also received an update on California Arts Education Framework implementation and information on the California Department […]
Results of the 2023–24 Women Leading Ed Insight Survey released in March show that many women are still dealing with the same professional challenges they’ve experienced for decades.
Almost 63 percent of California high school seniors felt prepared to begin college and two-thirds were satisfied with the advising they received regarding higher education, Policy Analysis for California Education’s (PACE) brief “The Transition to College: Voices From the Class of 2023,” released in March.
By The Partnership for Children & Youth Have you started planning for your summer learning program yet? Summer learning programs are more important than ever as students, schools and communities are still recovering from the negative impacts of school closures and pandemic trauma on students’ […]
Majority of the 125 largest school districts in the United States face little competition for their students, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s December report, The Education Competition Index: Quantifying competitive pressure in America’s 125 largest school districts. Public school systems compete with other […]
