The 2024 California Standards for the Teaching Profession place more emphasis on family engagement, and a recent report from the California Family Engagement Network covers field-level perspectives on related practices and obstacles.
Nearly 40 percent of special education teachers and more than 30 percent of school-based nurses and counselors considered leaving their role in the past 12 months, according to a recent survey of 1,000 school employees across the U.S. conducted by Soliant Health, a healthcare staffing provider.
Polarized discussions on what math students should be taught and how, often referred to as the “math wars,” has been ongoing in the nation for decades. An April report by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), Navigating the math wars: A practical guide to the divides and debates influencing math instruction, provides background on the issue and presents strategies that could help end the longstanding dispute.
California ranked third in the nation for its average starting salary of $59,424 for teachers in 2024–25, up 1.7 percent from the year prior, according to the National Education Association’s (NEA) recent reports on educator pay in America.
Compensation, school leadership and job and workplace satisfaction are factors associated with teacher turnover, according to the Learning Policy Institute’s (LPI) March report Teacher Turnover in the United States: Who Moves, Who Leaves, and Why.
Each year, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing is required to submit a report providing data about the supply of new teachers available in the state to the governor and Legislature. Determining teacher supply is essential for policymakers as they analyze how current statutes and […]
A new report from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) explores state preschool policies related to assistant teacher qualification requirements, strategies to meet those requirements, compensation policies, and professional development (PD) supports available to, and required for, assistant teachers.
A new brief from the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools highlighted evolving trends in California’s teacher pipeline and workforce from 2019–20 through 2023–24. Researchers found that during this six-year time period, the number of experienced teachers decreased while the number of first-year teachers increased, suggesting both decreased teacher retention and increased recruitment post-COVID.
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.
A federal grant will help rural Inyo County students upgrade classrooms to elevate student learning. The $700,000 Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture will support Inyo COE in advancing educational access and equity in local rural and frontier communities by funding the initiative, Inyo LinkEd: Empowering Rural Education Opportunities.
