This week: Executive Director Louis Freedberg, Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald and EdSource reporter Carolyn Jones discuss a very busy week for education in California.

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This week: How CA schools and universities are responding to the DACA repeal, interviews with DACA recipients at U.C. Berkeley, how 9/11 changed the way we talk about immigration & an education leader’s warnings about LCFF implementation.

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This week: controversial legislation to create a state-run STEM school, a lawmaker’s plan to audit districts’ use of LCFF funding, big changes in when school starts for CA’s biggest districts, and a 2+ week delay of the release of Smarter Balanced test scores.

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This week: how teachers are addressing the controversial events of the summer with their students, CA’s draft ESSA plan draws criticism from ed non-profits, and new programs to turn bilingual teachers into bilingual educators.

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This week: A new national poll by Education Next found a drop in support for charter schools and a polarizing impact of President Trump on education issues, the California Budget and Policy Center on the potential impact of vouchers, and Bay Area high school students discover roots in their communities.

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This week: Big changes to the way CA awards teaching credentials, holding K-12 responsible for reducing the number of students who need to take remedial courses in college, fun ways teachers are incorporating the solar eclipse into their curriculum.

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This week: Cal State makes big moves on multiple fronts to help more students graduate and graduate on time, plus FCMAT’s new CEO on declining revenue, rising expenses, and other challenges CA school districts are facing

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This week: A tax proposal to free up more money for districts, a new AP computer science course attracting girls and students of color and a settlement in a school discipline lawsuit that focusing on implicit bias

This week: A frank report released by the California Community Colleges with a roadmap to increase transfer and grad rates and a rally in Sacramento organized Californians for Justice in defense of the Local Control Funding Formula and the finance and school reforms it’s put into place.

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This week: CA state board grapples over final ESSA plans with just one meeting left, a roadmap for bilingual education in CA post Prop. 58, the fate of teacher tenure bills & more!
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This week: Should school districts be required to do more detailed reporting on how they spend state funds? Where in CA should educators go to produce more college graduates? How do some school districts convince students to take math courses — over the summer no less?

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This week: Trump’s budget cuts cause fissures in the charter school movement, the implications of SCOTUS’s church preschool playground decision, CA CORE districts’ request to be declared “innovation zones,” and the push for school districts to be more assertive diagnosing children with dyslexia

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This week: ongoing efforts to extend the length of time it takes to get teacher tenure in CA, what schools can do to prevent youth suicide & strategies to reduce superintendent turnover

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In this edition of “This Week in California Education,” Executive Director Louis Freedberg, and Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald bring you a special podcast from the Education Writers Association national seminar in Washington D.C. this week. They sought out national education leaders to get their perspectives on how California is doing on its education reforms, and its new “California School Dashboard” that ranks schools on multiple measures, not just test scores.

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