This week: A push to offer SAT or ACT to 11th graders in place of Common Core-aligned Smarter Balanced tests, the growing battle between CA & the U.S. Department of Education over how to count and serve the state’s low-performing students, an for the 1st year more Bay Area charter schools closed than opened.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: Louis Freedberg and John discuss Governor Jerry Brown’s comments on education during his 16th and final state of the state speech. Plus tuition hikes on the horizon for UC and CSU students.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: how the state is pitching teaching as a career to help alleviate the teacher shortage, CA sticks to its ESSA plan despite criticism from the U.S. Dept of Ed & a closer look at the lack of homeschool regulations in the wake of the Perris child abuse case.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: Louis and John discuss the release of CA’s 2018-19 budget — Gov. Brown’s last. Despite predicting an economic recession Brown proposed a burst of education spending for early ed, K-12, higher ed and other initiatives.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: Louis and John make predictions about the biggest education issues on the horizon in 2018 including the fate of CA’s Dreamers, the upcoming SCOTUS decision on public employee union dues, the impact legal marijuana will have on state’s teens and more.
This week: John and producer Sarah Tan review key education developments in 2017 and look ahead to what to expect in 2018.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: is the new CA School Dashboard too complicated to be useful for parents? What’s working, how can it be improved and how are other states presenting the same information. Plus big changes proposed for credentialing requirements for special education teachers.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: Louis discusses the release of California’s much anticipated new school accountability system. He’s joined by California Collaborative for Educational Excellence executive director, Carl Cohn and Pivot Learning CEO Arun Ramanathan.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: a focus on Gov. Brown’s push to establish a new online-only community college; who the online degrees are meant to reach and who online classes work best for, plus the release of the CA School Dashboard the dept. of ed is releasing next week.
Produced by Sarah Tan
This week: the effect the Republican tax bill may have on the California state budget, the surprisingly rosy forecast for K12 and community college funding, and how a state-mandated school safety plan may have averted a greater tragedy this week in Rancho Tehama.
Produced by Sarah Tan
