Betsy DeVos and teachers' union leader trade barbs

Understanding California charter schools: a quick guide

Mikhail Zinshteyn

Mobile classroom brings education to the hardest-to-reach students

Five Keys Charter School's refurbished bus will help high school dropouts earn their diplomas or GEDs.

Carolyn Jones

Now for the hard part: translating new vision for community colleges into student success

The Vision for Success plan adopted by the college system's board of governors lays out a pathway to support students.

Louis Freedberg

State board, advocacy groups fundamentally disagree over plan for complying with federal education law

Is the state's bare-bones response to the Every Student Succeeds Act a shrewd tactic or a missed opportunity?

John Fensterwald

Community college board approves new goals for increasing graduation rates

While praising the plan’s targets, members of the California community Colleges Board of Governors also questioned whether the goals can become reality given the state’s complicated structure for governing community colleges.

Mikhail Zinshteyn

Social and emotional learning appears to provide benefits that last

The students retained those skills when researchers tracked them months or even years later.

Jane Meredith Adams

California's community colleges' new push to improve graduation and transfer rates

If approved and carried out, the plan could lead to more Californians with two- or four-year degrees entering the workforce.

Mikhail Zinshteyn

Author shelves teacher tenure bill; surprise alternative emerges

Both bills would add optional third year; school districts prefer one version, CTA the other.

John Fensterwald

More recommendation letters likely to be sought for UC admissions

The new policy would allow UC's nine undergraduate campuses to seek recommendation letters and other information from up to 15 percent of their freshman applicants. The change will be monitored to see if it hurts low-income and minority students.

Larry Gordon

Do girls have access to team sports? Many California schools aren't telling, despite law

Many California schools aren't reporting whether girls have equal access to high school sports teams, a new study from Legal Aid at Work finds.

Jane Meredith Adams

Fresno Unified increases applications to CSUs and UCs

More students applied to CSU and UC colleges once they got timely information from counselors and others.

Theresa Harrington