A recent report from The Learning Policy Institute (LPI), Educating Teachers in California: What Matters for Teacher Preparedness?, explores the survey responses of nearly 60,000 individuals who completed teacher preparation programs (TPP) and applied for their primary teaching credentials between 2016–17 and 2020–21. More than […]
Family disruptions, trauma, out-of-home placements and school changes are common experiences among children in foster care, and often result in higher rates of disciplinary problems, grade repetition, special education placement and dropping out of high school, as well as lower academic achievement, and increased barriers […]
Housing insecurity and homelessness is a major issue in the United States, impacting more than 1 million young people across the nation and more than 224,000 California public school students. Long Beach Unified School District and local educational agencies in Monterey County are taking action […]
“Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities while also protecting against the dangers that may arise as a result of AI being integrated in ed tech,” according to the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology’s report, […]
On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Groff v. DeJoy, which relates to religious accommodations under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on, among other protected categories, religion. The law imposes an obligation […]
By Erika Hoffman, CSBA Deputy Legislative Director for State and Federal Programs Congress returned from its two-week holiday break on July 10 and will be going full speed to get work done before they take their summer recess in August. On July 13, the House […]
The State Assembly and Senate raced to finish their work ahead of the July 14 deadline for legislation to be approved by the policy committees in their second house (Assembly bills to be approved by the Senate committees and vice versa). Bills that made it […]
At least 89 bills have been introduced throughout the country this legislative session that address reading instruction, third-grade intervention or literacy in general, according to the Education Commission of the States. According to the commission’s updated 50-State Comparison on K-3 Policies brief, recent legislative activity […]
Students and teachers have very different opinions on students’ level of motivation, according to a recent EdWeek Research Center report, Student Motivation: Student and Educator Perceptions. To determine the degree to which the views of educators align with those of the young people they serve, […]
After nearly four years of rewrites, debates and thousands of public comments, the State Board of Education adopted a revised K-12 Mathematics Framework during its July 12–13 meeting. “One of the things I realize is that at the heart of every comment … children are […]
