In the midst of a busy holiday season, glancing ahead to 2025 can seem daunting, but it’s necessary to properly support students, staff and community. January 2025 will be filled with significant developments for California public schools as well as related CSBA events, trainings and […]
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released a fact sheet, “Dual Enrollment in California,” in November that tracks the expansion of dual enrollment in the state. Dual enrollment enables high school students to take college courses and earn college credits. After stagnating during the […]
The final meeting of the year for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) debuted a new set of educator workforce dashboards and covered a wide range of teacher-centric, data-rich reports. The commission bid goodbye to former Natomas Unified School District trustee and CSBA Past […]
A national survey of 467 superintendents conducted over summer 2024 considered the societal and fiscal costs of recent conflicts happening in schools and found that two-thirds of respondents, who represent 46 states, have experienced moderate to high rates of culturally divisive clashes in their local educational agencies since the pandemic.
The California State Board of Education (SBE) is currently accepting feedback on significant updates to the Student Score Report (SSR) that may impact how a student and their parents interpret the student’s results on state standardized tests.
First established in 2002, the National Career Clusters Framework serves as a guide for schools and industry partners for career technical education (CTE) programs. Supported by Advance CTE, the framework provides a shared structure and language for CTE program design across the United States. In […]
A recent report and corresponding policy brief from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) examines how Black and Latino men are faring following developmental education reform brought on by 2017’s Assembly Bill 705.
Just 60 percent of public schools in the U.S. have foundational computer science coursework available to students, according to the 2024 State of Computer Science Education report by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association and Expanding Computer Education Pathways.
On Nov. 21, the U.S. Department of Education published the 2025–26 FAFSA form for those seeking financial aid for college or career school.
On Oct. 14, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) released its annual Air Monitoring Report declaring that no air samples taken at monitoring sites — all located on or near a school site — in 2023 detected pesticides at or above health-protective screening levels […]
