Between 2017 and 2025, roughly 5 percent of kindergartners were redshirted per year on average with a peak of 6.4 percent in fall 2021 during the pandemic, according to NWEA’s March brief “Should kindergartners be redshirted? Costs likely outweigh academic benefits.”
The UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools’ March brief “Hidden in Plain Sight: Fear, Underidentification, and Funding Gaps for Housing-Insecure Students in Los Angeles County” details the findings of a recent research study on the perspectives of staff, such as homeless liaisons, district coordinators and county officials, who are responsible for supporting the population’s academic success.
ActVnet — a comprehensive response system funded and developed by Tulare County Office of Education to improve campus safety — connects law enforcement, fire departments, emergency medical services, school sites and families.
A local educational agency’s structures and processes are key components in effectively uplifting and scaling instructional changes in schools, according to Policy Analysis for California Education’s (PACE) practice brief “How Districts Scale Instructional Improvement That Lasts.”
The California Department of Education, as part of its universal prekindergarten (UPK) initiative, recently published a toolkit that local educational agencies can use to find tips on communicating early learning options to families.
The report Aligned by Design: How cross-system math alignment can improve students’ pathways from high school to college offers recommendations that states can consider to improve the effectiveness of math pathways for learners.
High school (53 percent), social media (31 percent) and their parents (21 percent) were the top sources rising college students whose own parents received higher education cited for learning about their future careers, according to the California Cradle-to-Career Data System’s student experience report for the 2025 academic year. For first-generation college goers, school (50 percent) and parents (38 percent) were top sources, followed by social media (27 percent).
This Earth Day, recognized annually on April 22, San Diego County’s National School District will be one of six local districts participating in an event at the Fleet Science Center where roughly 200 sixth graders will learn about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and explore sustainability-focused exhibits.
It’s been established that most teenagers in the U.S. have used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, but a February report from Pew Research Center found that searching for information (57 percent) and getting homework help (54 percent) are among top reasons.
In fall 2024, just 32 percent of U.S. schools had recovered to pre-pandemic achievement levels in math or reading, and only 14 percent had recovered in both subjects, according to NWEA’s February brief “From loss to recovery: Diverging paths and uneven gains across schools.”
