A new resource from UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, “Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook,” covers more than 50 years of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) studies in one convenient, online portal that high school educators can access.
With the Regional K-16 Education Collaboratives Grant Program, which aims to address persistent inequities in higher education and workforce participation through the development of regional intersegmental partnerships statewide, reaching its end, a new report from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) examines the outcomes of one of the programs key partnerships.
A fact sheet published late March by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) identified several alarming trends that highlight the motivation behind CSBA’s call for greater state accountability in helping local educational agencies close achievement gaps.
Roughly one in four California students experiencing homelessness are in Los Angeles County, according to the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools’ March brief “Rising Numbers, Fading Resources: Students Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles County,”
In a demonstration of unity, California’s leading education organizations representing administrators, classified employees, county superintendents, parents, school board members, school business officials and teachers convened on the West Steps of the State Capitol on May 21 to urge the Legislature to reject Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to withhold $3.9 billion owed to public schools.
By Andre Pecina, Corcoran Joint USD superintendent As superintendent of Corcoran Joint Unified School District in Kings County, I believe some of the most important learning we do as leaders happens when we stop, listen and allow students to speak openly about their experiences. On […]
Between 2017 and 2025, roughly 5 percent of kindergartners were redshirted per year on average with a peak of 6.4 percent in fall 2021 during the pandemic, according to NWEA’s March brief “Should kindergartners be redshirted? Costs likely outweigh academic benefits.”
On May 14, the Legislature’s respective Appropriations Committees dispensed with their suspense files. The suspense file compiles bills with a price tag of over $150,000 to be considered in bulk in order to assess their fiscal impact upon the state as a whole. Suspense hearings […]
Superintendents report an average tenure of over five years in their current roles — an increase of three years or less commonly cited as the standard in recent times, according to the recently released 2025–26 Superintendent Salary & Benefits Study from AASA, The School Superintendents Association. This finding is in line with the pre-pandemic figure of about six years.
The UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools’ March brief “Hidden in Plain Sight: Fear, Underidentification, and Funding Gaps for Housing-Insecure Students in Los Angeles County” details the findings of a recent research study on the perspectives of staff, such as homeless liaisons, district coordinators and county officials, who are responsible for supporting the population’s academic success.
