Education Beat
Gig by gig at California community colleges
Adjuncts cobble together part-time work at multiple colleges, hoping for a full time job that never materializes.
Lessons in higher education: What California can learn
Keeping California public university options open
Superintendents: Well-paid and walking away
The debt to degree connection
College in prison: How earning a degree can lead to a new life
Library or police, a small town’s struggle puts a spotlight on library inequities across California
Adjuncts cobble together part-time work at multiple colleges, hoping for a full time job that never materializes.
Principals share how they’re coping and what could help them and the teachers who work with them to stay in the profession.
Gavin Newsom and state legislators are pushing to develop a tool to screen every young student in California schools for dyslexia.
We discuss how California school districts are working to prepare and retain more Black teachers, and a Black teacher shares his experience.
As some districts run out of substitutes to step in for sick and quarantined staff, teachers and students demand more Covid testing and better masks.
Blind students sued the Los Angeles Community College District claiming that they weren’t given accessible materials in math classes.
John Fensterwald takes us for school lunch, cooked from scratch by fifth and sixth graders.
We hear from a theater teacher who had students build a Hogwarts scene and a custodian who started an after-school chess club, with COVID relief funds.
How did these award-winning counselors from California’s Central Valley become so good at what they do? How did their own experiences shape them?
Can transgender students use restrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their gender identity? State law and students in Chino Valley Unified overwhelmingly say yes.