Though enrollment in K-12 private schools continued to climb for a fourth year, momentum is slowing, according to the Cato Institute’s July report Survey: Is the Private School Enrollment Boom Ending?, which highlights enrollment trends between the 2023–24 and 2024–25 academic years.
The Aug. 28-29 meeting of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) continued work on evaluating CTC-approved exams, pulling in assessments that meet basic skills requirements and subject matter requirements to join the extensive work that has been going on for the past year on […]
Late on Aug. 29 the Legislature’s respective Appropriations Committees dispensed with their suspense files. Included among the many legislative measures considered by the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees were several CSBA-sponsored bills.
September is Suicide Prevention Month — a time to raise awareness about this urgently important crisis. Currently, suicide is the second leading cause of death among people ages 10-14, the third leading cause of death among those ages 15-24 and the 12th leading cause of […]
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) recently released a national comparison of state policies to recruit and retain teachers across the teacher pipeline. “Schools continue to face specific and persistent teacher shortages in certain subjects, such as upper-level math and special education, and in […]
The article “Cumulative exposure to urban heat can affect the learning capacity of students and penalize the vulnerable and low-income young population: A systematic review,” which was recently published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS Climate, considered seven studies spanning 61 countries and roughly 14.5 million students on the subject as communities around the globe continue to face more extreme climate-related event.
On Aug. 19, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond was joined by other state education leaders and Attendance Works for a press conference at Williamson Elementary in the Folsom Cordova Unified School District to announce that California is on track and committed to reduce […]
The Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI) recently released a toolkit detailing two federal data privacy laws — the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule — and how they might apply in […]
Multilingual learners are one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. student population, with nearly one in five students in public schools across the country speaking a language other than English at home. Developing disciplinary literacy is vital to equipping students with the skills […]
A recent report from EdTrust that compiles related-resources on fostering an equitable approach to improving literacy, provides recommendations for state and local actions to address subpar literacy rates.
