According to YouthTruth’s recent report, School Safety, Security, & Emergency Preparedness: Understanding and Acting on How Students Experience Safety, students feel safer at school when their concerns are heard.
The recent report Preventing Youth Homelessness in Highly Marginalized Populations considers causes of youth homelessness and potential prevention strategies for five groups of young people who are disproportionately represented among those experiencing homelessness, and underrepresented in research and policy conversations.
Although the number of experienced administrators (those with more than two years of service) increased in recent years in California, the overall percentage is on a slow decline, according to a new brief from the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools that examined those serving as administrators (primarily superintendents and principals) from the 2019–20 through 2023–24 school years.
Drafted in response to a request from Congress to explore the psychological impact of active school shooter drills on students and staff, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published its consensus study report, School Active Shooter Drills: Mitigating Risks to Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health, in 2025.
A webinar hosted by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), “Community Schools as a Locally-Driven Strategy for Student Success,” detailed the investments states are making in the model and how strategies are paying off.
Dozens of attendees gathered in San Diego March 11-12 for the CSBA Counties Governance Workshop where the focus of sessions and micro-trainings was a core responsibility of county boards — serving at-promise students such as foster youth.
The U.S. is the sole high-income country that lacks guaranteed paid parental leave, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality’s (NCTQ) January report State of the States: Investing in Teachers and Families Through Paid Parental Leave. This leaves teachers, a woman-dominated field, without needed support and causes many to exit the profession or never enter it at all.
Rates of chronic absenteeism in California still haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a March fact sheet by the Public Policy Institute of California that gives an overview of the topic.
The California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program (CalKIDS) provides young people with a jumpstart in affording to pursue college and career training by automatically offering scholarships of up to $1,5000 to eligible public school students and all Californians born on or after July 1, 2022.
California is among the 17 states that have guidance clarifying that computer science (CS) education is fundamental to artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to the 2025 State of AI + Computer Science Education report, published by Code.org, which includes a state-by-state look at AI education policies and an overview of CS policies, access and participation.
