National Immunization Awareness Month occurs each August, as families and school communities are busy gearing up for a new academic year and settling into the routines that will set them up for success. This preparation period offers the perfect opportunity for schools, as well as parents and guardians, to review student vaccination records, particularly at “check point” grades.
Bret Harte Union High School District’s Fire Technology Program launched in 2022 to help prepare students for in-demand careers in fire and emergency medical services close to home. Located in a rural community surrounded by forest in Calaveras County, the program currently serves 30 of the approximately 600 students enrolled in the district.
Students across the country could lose access to free school meals under cuts to funding and other policy provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), according to a July 7 report from the Center for American Progress.
In 2024–25, two-thirds of English language arts teachers at the secondary level (67 percent) intended to have students read between one to four full fiction or nonfiction books, according to the RAND Corporation’s May report Reading Full Books in Secondary English Language Arts Classrooms: Findings from the Spring 2025 American Instructional Resources Survey.
Between the 2012–13 and 2023–24 school years, the number of students with disabilities spending some of their school day in general education classrooms increased 25 percent, according to a report published July 2 by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
A recent brief published by Californians Together details the expansion of the State Seal of Biliteracy (SSB) over the past 15 years and offers state and local recommendations to help further boost access for students — particularly those classified as English learners (EL) and reclassified fluent English proficient (RFEP).
Segregation in education settings is on the rise, cautions a resource that ranks states on racial and economic segregation in public schools and offers strategies to address the issue.
The Global California 2030 initiative, which aims to have half of the state’s K-12 students participating in programs that promote proficiency in two or more languages by 2030, has led to the expansion of dual language immersion offerings. A recent brief from the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools considers whether current pipelines can provide enough educators who have appropriate training to meet the goal.
What began as a response to requests from families for additional electives for their students enrolled in the Monson-Sultana Elementary School District has become a critical component of recent improvements in academic achievement, attendance and more.
A new brief from researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the Annenberg Institute at Brown University synthesizes current studies on how local educational agencies can reduce racial inequities in school discipline — particularly exclusionary discipline practices such as suspensions and expulsions — and examines why many discipline reforms fail to produce lasting change.
