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UC is joining Boys & Girls Clubs to boost university enrollment

Select campuses will partner with local clubs.

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Animated videos help teachers build sense of empathy in students

| September 28, 2016

The videos are designed to help teach social and emotional skills.

Gov. Brown signs law to plan expansion of computer science education

| September 27, 2016

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed into law a bill that begins a three-year planning process to expand computer science education for all grades in California’s public schools, beginning in kindergarten. Authored by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, the bill, Assembly Bill 2329, requires State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson to create by September 2017 a 23-person advisory panel to be charged with developing a long-term…

Physical fitness central to Sacramento district’s focus on the ‘whole child’

By Michael Collier

| September 26, 2016

Superintendent emphasizes the importance of health.

LA principal encourages students to be peacemakers, not peace breakers

By Michael Janofsky

| September 25, 2016

Marcia Reed, principal of 186th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles Unified, was honored this month as a 2016 National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. The association recognizes one outstanding principal in each of the 50 states each year. Now in her 13th year as principal, Reed was selected by her fellow principals statewide, in part for the academic…

Brown vetoes bill intended to place more emphasis on test scores

By John Fensterwald

| September 25, 2016

AB 2548 also called for simpler, clearer school and district reports cards.

Yuba City strike magnified tension over funding formula

By John Fensterwald

| September 22, 2016

The issue: Can targeted dollars fund across-the-board teacher raises?

$9 billion California school bond struggling to gain support, poll says

By John Fensterwald

| September 21, 2016

Backers of extending the tax on wealthy residents also have yet to seal the deal.

Tracking educational progress of California’s foster children just a first step

By Michelle Traiman

| September 21, 2016

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Last week, for the first time in history, California released statewide data on the educational outcomes of students in foster care. Until now, the state has not published school data on the approximately 70,000 foster children in California’s children separately from other children. But as a requirement of the state’s Local Control Funding Formula, the California Department of Education has just published data on…