About 25 percent of students statewide attend schools where at least 20 percent of teachers are not fully credentialed or are teaching subjects outside of their formal authorizations, according to a recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). These schools were often […]
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and YouthTruth’s recent report, The Anti-Bullying Report: Lessons from Students and Principals on Belonging, Respect and Safer Schools, sheds light on students’ experiences at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
A new WestEd report, Strengthening California’s Teacher Workforce: Toward a Statewide Strategic Framework, outlines the work of California’s State Educator Workforce Collaborative in working toward a strategic framework to guide the state’s approach to teacher workforce planning and action. The collaborative brings together state agencies […]
The Puente Project is a national award-winning program that has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California’s educationally underrepresented students since 1981. Its mission is to increase the number of underrepresented students who enroll in four-year colleges and universities, earn college degrees […]
An Oct. 9 webinar hosted by CSBA featured initial analysis of results from the 2025 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) and CSBA issuing a challenge to the state to create a state-level plan focused on what state agencies and policymakers will do differently to better support local educational agencies in closing the achievement gap.
With time to spare, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the final outcomes on Oct. 13 for all legislation that reached his desk at the end of the first year of the two-year 2025–26 legislative session. Notably, four CSBA-sponsored measures reached the Governor’s desk, with three signed into law.
On Sept. 30, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District issued a decision in the case of Berkley People’s Alliance v. City of Berkeley overturning the lower court’s order dismissing the case. The appellate court held that recessing a public meeting and reconvening […]
A recent analysis by the Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education (CADRE) shows that while written state complaints and due process complaints increased during the 2023–24 school year, so too did mediation agreement rates. The federal technical assistance center found that the number […]
A new research brief from the Brookings Institution examines the effects of climate-change related events on preK-12 schools in the U.S. and how strengthening preparation and response to these events can boost student achievement and reduce inequities. As evidenced by the 2024 National Assessment of […]
While the public largely supports the ability of parents to opt their child out of lessons tied to religion or identity, support drops sharply across political lines when people hear about the burdens and learning losses opt-outs create, according to a report released in August […]
