After an unusually quiet final night of the first year of the 2021—22 legislative session —made possible by COVID-era limits on the number of bills and an ambitious budget that absorbed some of this year’s biggest policy proposals — the Legislature recessed for the rest […]
Dr. Naomi Bardach, team lead for California Safe Schools for All, gave an update on the status of COVID-19 in the state as well as lessons learned this back-to-school season during the CSBA webinar “Governing in a Time of Chaos: Board Meetings in the age […]
In a lot of ways, California is on the right track when it comes to navigating the pandemic, State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond said during the board’s Sept. 9 meeting, which covered changes to the state Local Control and Accountability Plan template, adoption […]
The gap between white parents and Black and Hispanic parents in their comfortability with a return to in-person is narrowing slightly, according to a RAND Corporation survey released Aug. 18. The report, which details parents’ responses concerning school hesitancy and preferences for school COVID-19 safety […]
A new study from the American Institutes for Research examines the effects of the type and length of suspensions received by middle and high school students’ on their educational outcomes, their same-grade same-school peers’ educational outcomes and school climate. While an abundance of research has […]
By Ty Alper I am president of the Berkeley Unified School District school board — a California district that is doing everything it can to keep students in school, even as positive cases increase. It’s possible and we are doing it. But it requires one […]
Community collaboration with schools will be a crucial aspect in mitigating the spread of COVID-19 and keeping children in classrooms this year, according to Yolo County and Davis Joint Unified School District leaders. In an Aug. 26 webinar, “Take 5 for Schools: Five Essential Steps […]
The California Department of Education is partnering with California Educators Together to provide the Local Literacy Planning Toolkit, a set of resources designed to align the work of local educational agencies at the county, district and school levels with the California Comprehensive State Literacy Plan […]
To mask or not to mask has been a controversial topic for months as the pandemic picks up once again. By now, residents of the Golden State know that the California Department of Public Health is requiring masks to be worn while indoors at K-12 […]
A public health crisis in and of itself, the precarious mental health of young people in the United States has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a July report by Mental Health America, Addressing The Youth Mental Health Crisis: The Urgent Need […]
