A new report from Insightful Education Solutions examines whether states have the foundational conditions — well-structured pathways, reliable data, workforce alignment and public transparency — needed to credibly assess and improve their career technical education (CTE) programs.
CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show (AEC) is the premier event for board members and other education leaders to connect and further their governance skills in California. New and veteran trustees, superintendents, school business officials and board support professionals will come away from this […]
Ahead of Pride Month celebrated each June, the Petaluma City Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution on April 14 directing all campuses in the district to fly the Pride lag throughout the school year. Specifically, the district will now fly the Progress Pride flag, designed in 2018 as an update to the traditional rainbow flag to emphasize inclusion and intersectionality within the LGBTQ+ community.
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.”
