Removing students from the classroom through exclusionary discipline practices like suspensions and expulsions has been proven to negatively impact academic achievement and disproportionately affect specific groups including students of color, low-income children, LGBTQ youth, males and students with disabilities. Those trends proved true on the […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in August that overall suicide rates in the United States increased by 2.6 percent from 2021 to 2022 — reaching an all-time high of 49,449 people — but decreased in youth ages 10-24 years old by 8.4 […]
The Aug. 31 meeting of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) focused on discussions of how to improve awareness of what CCEE does in the field, ways to better measure progress made in providing direct technical assistance, how to provide easier access to the […]
“Funding Education in California,” an event hosted by the Public Policy Institute of California on Aug. 9, featured a panel discussion on the Local Control Funding Formula and if it has met its goals to improve student outcomes and increase equity by providing more resources […]
Like most states in the nation, California is experiencing a teacher shortage. Teacher recruitment has largely been led by the 1,000 individual school districts in the state, and the California Department of Education historically has not engaged in direct teacher recruitment or support. That is […]
The California Department of Education held a webinar, “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Train the Trainer Certification,” on Aug. 2 to review the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC), district implementation guidance, instructional guidance, sample lessons and topics, and resources developed by local educational agencies. Assembly Bill […]
National Immunization Awareness Month provides the opportunity to review student vaccination records at “check point” grades According to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), reported kindergarten and first grade immunization rates in 2021–22 decreased slightly from before the pandemic. The proportion of kindergarten students […]
A July 11 webinar examining how districts are using COVID relief funding featured CSBA Senior Director of Research and Policy Development Mary Briggs in a panel discussion. The webinar, hosted by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), accompanied its new report, District Spending of […]
The spring edition of California Schools magazine included an article detailing the United States Supreme Court’s history on affirmative action and described two then-pending cases that sought to undo 45 years of judicial precedent, and consequently make affirmative action practices illegal in United States colleges’ […]
A September 2022 Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found the first drop in six years among adults who could identify all three branches of government, and declines among those who could name the First Amendment rights. An April 2023 report from the Learning Policy Institute, […]
