Education Beat
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Miliani Rodriguez attends Coachella Valley High School, where the AC often breaks in over 100-degree heat and when it rains, the ceilings leak.
California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.
For Chelsea Duran, returning to high school for her senior year means being on high alert, watching over her shoulder for immigration enforcement agents.
Saran Tugsjargal found herself wondering who would stand up for students like her. Little did she know that she would become that person.
Schools across California could lose hundreds of mental health workers, after the Trump administration cut federal grants.
Meet Allison Saiki, who teaches students how to manage money, pay rent and open retirement accounts, with a class currency she calls “Saiki Cents.”
An audit found the charter received millions in funding for which it was not eligible, assigned teachers to classes they were not credentialed to teach, and avoided standardized testing, in addition to spending on items like a trip to Paris and leasing a ballpark.
The Mahmoud v. Taylor case involved storybooks with LGBTQ themes, but legal experts say that the case has much broader implications that could affect subjects like literature, history and science.
California schools need a whole new understanding of the importance of play — and potty training — in TK classrooms.
A new report by the Education Justice Coalition calls out Los Angeles County for its continuing failure to educate incarcerated youth, despite a civil grand jury report and investigations by the federal and state Department of Justice.