The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, released on Jan. 28, covering mathematics and reading scores for students in grades 4 and 8 show that while California has made some progress in catching up to the national average, more work remains.
The U.S. Department of Education recently released a report, Raise the Bar: Supporting Rural Communities — Boldly Improve Learning Conditions, Eliminate Educator Shortages, highlighting ways to better support educator workforce preparation for rural communities. “Eliminating the educator shortage is especially urgent for rural schools, which […]
The Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) convened for its first meeting of the year on Jan. 30 following an orientation day on Jan. 29 to hold elections, set goals for 2025 and receive presentations regarding personal finance curriculum and newly revised Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations.
In keeping with the requirements of statute, the Governor’s Department of Finance released their budget trailer bills. Providing greater clarity on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January Budget Proposal, the trailer bills provide the details where specific statutory amendments are proposed on how specific programs and proposals are intended to operate. As part of that release, the education trailer bill helps to shed light on significant proposals made last month.
The Riverside County Office of Education recently launched an initiative focused on partnerships and collaboration to address the myriad challenges that foster students throughout the county face both in and outside of the classroom. Data show foster youth throughout the nation continue to face lower […]
Spotlighting promising programs for Black History Month Emery Unified School District — a two-school district located in the Bay Area — has seen significant improvement among its African American students in recent years, with test scores on the rise and chronic absence rates declining. As […]
A Jan. 29 webinar hosted by CSBA’s AI Taskforce titled “Ethical AI in Education: Building transparent frameworks for the future” offered local educational agency leaders tips on creating an artificial intelligence (AI) governance committee, environmental scans and organizational roadmaps, and evaluation metrics for the use of new education technology (edtech).
The Trump Administration continued its flurry of executive orders on Jan. 29, issuing three declarations with significant implications for public education. The new executive orders seek to end what the Administration describes as “indoctrination” in K-12 schools, launch a federal school choice initiative and facilitate […]
A new case study from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) examines how a pilot program in Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD) successfully leveraged leadership, strategic resource use and collaborative structures to improve elementary math instruction and scale practices. As a part of the […]
After a whirlwind news cycle, TK-12 schools have been assured the most significant sources of federal funding for public education are not included in a “pause” to financial grants or assistance declared by the Trump Administration. On Jan. 27, the White House Office of Management […]
