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UC Board of Regents Wants Recommendations By End of Academic Year on SAT/ACT

Updated, July 14 The University of California admissions board has voted to pull back on its original timeline to consider ...
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Can Ethnic Studies Bridge the Achievement Gap? San Francisco Program Shows Gains

San Francisco high school students, particularly those with high needs, enrolled in ethnic study courses achieved higher GPAs ...
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California School Libraries Blindsided by ‘Catastrophic’ Budget Cut

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California librarians were stunned when a ...
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The Journey of Bobbie Simpson: Transgender Woman Making Strides on School Board in Deep Red ...

This story was originally published on EdSource. The first openly transgender person elected to a California school board is ...
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Short Thousands of Bilingual Teachers, California Schools Turn to High School Students

This story was originally published on EdSource. California’s audacious goal of having half of all K-12 students enrolled in ...
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A movie, a principal and a turnaround school: 30 years since ‘The George McKenna Story’

Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. George McKenna doesn’t talk about it much, but Denzel Washington played him in a TV movie called “The George McKenna Story.” ...
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Miramonte settlement is largest ever involving LAUSD

LA Unified has reached a settlement worth almost $140 million with 81 victims and their families from the sex abuse scandal involving former teacher Mark Berndt at Miramonte Elementary School. The ...
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Haves and have-nots: The borders between school districts often mark extreme segregation. A ...

The Rust Belt city of Rochester in upstate New York has the most economically segregating school district border in the country, walling off the high-poverty education system from its affluent ...
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Vergara trial turns another focus onto LA Unified teachers

A Harvard professor of education and economics provided the Vergara plaintiffs powerful testimony today when he told the court that schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have ineffective ...
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NIL Deals: California’s College Athletes Make Millions on Sponsorships

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. $390,000 to Jaylon Tyson, a former basketball guard at UC Berkeley, from a group of private donors. $3,000 to Jordan ...
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Who Will Break Out in 2026 California Superintendent Election?

This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. The primary for the state’s top K-12 schools job is ...
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Great Public Schools Now

Great Public Schools Now announced Thursday it will give up to $3.75 million in grant funds next year to expand up to five academically successful LA Unified school campuses in underserved areas — the ...