Mikhail Zinshteyn
Mikhail Zinshteyn reported on community colleges and other higher education matters for EdSource until Feb. 2019.
All articles by Mikhail Zinshteyn
Quick Guide: Understanding California charter schools
Find out how many charters are in California and in the U.S., what the major fault lines are between charter schools and their opponents, and what some of the functions of charters are that make them distinct from traditional public schools.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
July 20, 2017
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
July 17, 2017
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
July 16, 2017
LA Unified's new board president calls for help to market district's schools
Rodriguez says Los Angeles should shut down poor-performing charters while successful ones can share their practices with the rest of the district.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
July 7, 2017
California joins 17 other states in suing Trump administration over for-profit colleges
Regulations that would have forgiven loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges were supposed to go into effect on July 1.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
July 6, 2017
How half of California's future workforce can earn college degrees at higher rates
Though often outshone by their coastal neighbors, California’s central and eastern regions are home to millions of potential college students who could make the difference between the state boasting a thriving economy – or not.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 27, 2017
Reed Hastings backs school board candidates, but opposes elected school boards
The Netflix co-founder who has donated some of the biggest sums to charter school causes in California since 2011 thinks elected school boards are holding back education progress in the United States.
Louis Freedberg and Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 21, 2017
Oakland charters more likely to enroll higher-performing students than district schools
About 30 percent of Oakland students attend charter schools – one of the highest concentrations of charter students in the state.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 20, 2017
New LA school board member says strengthening district schools her first priority
Kelly Gonez was backed by charter school advocates, but says expanding the number of charters is not what she is interested in doing.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 18, 2017
In a city of charters, the LA school district runs many of them
Unlike independent charters, affiliated charters’ student discipline policies match the district’s. They operate out of district buildings that they don’t have to pay for and the district covers their administrative expenses. Affiliated or dependent charters are “really connected to the mother ship,” said José Cole-Gutiérrez, director of the L.A. Unified’s charter school division, the body that oversees both groups of charters.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 13, 2017
California would lose $400 million in federal K-12 education funding under Trump budget
The U.S. Department of Education, which funds much of the K-12 and higher education programs nationally, would be downsized by more than 13 percent.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
May 23, 2017
White House seeks billions in cuts to higher education spending
Trump's budget proposal must still win Congressional approval. Among the deep spending cuts are $143 billion in cuts to higher education over the next decade, according to a budget summary released on Monday.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
May 22, 2017
Charter-backed candidates win majority on L.A. Unified school board
The race for the three board seats generated nearly $17 million in campaign spending.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
May 17, 2017
California’s largest charter group pushes its agenda with money and people power
Buttressed by its roughly $18 million in political spending in 2015 and 2016, the California Charter Schools Association is a rising political force in California that’s challenging the teachers unions’ prowess in shaping local and state education law.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
May 3, 2017
California lags other states in total per-child spending on range of services
California lags behind 40 other states in spending money on children for services such as education and healthcare, according to a new report.