CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show (AEC) is the premier event for board members and other education leaders to connect and further their governance skills in California. New and veteran trustees, superintendents, school business officials and board support professionals will come away from this […]
Ahead of Pride Month celebrated each June, the Petaluma City Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution on April 14 directing all campuses in the district to fly the Pride lag throughout the school year. Specifically, the district will now fly the Progress Pride flag, designed in 2018 as an update to the traditional rainbow flag to emphasize inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
With the Regional K-16 Education Collaboratives Grant Program, which aims to address persistent inequities in higher education and workforce participation through the development of regional intersegmental partnerships statewide, reaching its end, a new report from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) examines the outcomes of one of the programs key partnerships.
A fact sheet published late March by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) identified several alarming trends that highlight the motivation behind CSBA’s call for greater state accountability in helping local educational agencies close achievement gaps.
Superintendents report an average tenure of over five years in their current roles — an increase of three years or less commonly cited as the standard in recent times, according to the recently released 2025–26 Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study from AASA, The School Superintendents Association. This finding is in line with the pre-pandemic figure of about six years.
The State Board of Education’s (SBE) May 12-13 meeting included the long-awaited adoption of a California Portrait of a Learner, as well as changes to the 2026 California School Dashboard including the integration of student growth data for English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and continued discussion around redesigning the state’s Differentiated Assistance and Direct Technical Assistance eligibility criteria to more effectively identify and prioritize LEAs with the greatest need.
The old adage, “students learn to read, then read to learn,” focuses on ensuring that students achieve literacy proficiency by third grade, at which point, the curriculum becomes more difficult and their reading skills are put to use to learn the material. However, since the pandemic, fewer students are proficient readers even into their middle and high school years, where teachers are not prepared to equip students with the basics. The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF), a national nonprofit organization, recently released a report that provides research-backed recommendations for supporting older readers.
One day while driving her son to school, Julie Chau Diep heard the song “Colors of the Wind,” a classic from the Pocahontas film soundtrack, when one specific lyric moved her to the point of tears. “How high does the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you’ll never know.” Diep, a trustee of the Anaheim Elementary School District, is also president and executive director of the OC Autism Foundation where she oversees a speech therapy clinic, disability advocacy center and community integration program.
The Southwest Transportation Agency is a non-profit agency that provides busing services to 13 local educational agencies in Fresno County to ensure approximately 7,000 students make it to and from school safely every day.
With local educational agencies facing growing challenges related to issues like chronic absenteeism and student mental health concerns to political tensions around curriculum, funding, staffing shortages and teacher burnout, a new report from ThoughtExchange explores the role of a positive school climate in alleviating the difficulties education systems are facing.
