By Angela Asch Over the past few years, rates of chronic sadness, emotional distress and suicidal ideation have been steadily increasing among youth. According to a survey conducted by Kids Data, 43 percent of parents across the state reported feeling moderately or extremely concerned for […]
Jacqueline A. Gaebe, board member, Visalia Unified School District What does your district have planned for the 2022–23 school year to foster learning recovery and educational advancements? One of the key strategies Visalia Unified is utilizing to foster learning recovery is in the area of […]
CSBA discussed school safety protocols and resources with California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) officials during the Oct. 24 webinar, “Saved by the Bell: Emergency response in California public schools.” While no one wants to think about worst case scenarios, planning for potential […]
The State Board of Education’s Nov. 2–3 meeting shined a spotlight on student voice, saw the adoption of changes to the California Spanish Assessment and California School Dashboard principles, as well as new resources to help teachers access and utilize disaggregated English learner student group […]
More than 150 years of targeted eradication of Native Americans in the U.S. and suppression of their languages and culture through federal boarding schools and other means forced many young people to abandon their ancestral ties. Spanning parts of Del Norte and Humboldt counties, the […]
By Marty Fatooh The Metropolitan Education District’s (MetroED) Career Technical Education (CTE) Campus, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, is one of just two facilities of its kind in California that provides high school students with hands-on career pathway programs, from firefighting to automotive […]
On Oct. 27, 2022, the California Attorney General issued an opinion addressing the question posed by Assemblymember Marc Berman of “how to fill a [board] vacancy when the incumbent was elected under an old districting system, but a new districting system will apply to the […]
Removing students from the classroom through exclusionary discipline practices like suspensions and expulsions has been proven to negatively impact academic achievement and disproportionately effect specific groups including students of color, low-income children, LGBTQ youth, males and students with disabilities. Following decades where a zero-tolerance approach […]
A new high-speed digital internet system was launched Oct. 4 in Fairhaven as part of a statewide effort to reduce California’s digital divide — especially in rural areas where broadband access has long been unavailable. The network in Fairhaven, located about 2 miles southwest of […]
More than half of school leaders reported starting the 2022–23 school year understaffed, according to recently released survey data of 904 schools from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. Overall, 53 percent of public school leaders reporting feeling understaffed entering the […]
