EdSource Podcasts

This week: suspensions and expulsions are down dramatically in CA schools — though racial gaps persist, how will LGBT history be covered in CA classrooms and a new Seal of Civic Engagement for high school diplomas.

This week: Louis and John discuss what’s happening in the California races for governor and state superintendent of public instruction and where the leading candidates stand on major educational issues like universal preschool, charter school regulation, teacher tenure and the Local Control Funding Formula.
Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: Louis covers two of the nearly 100 education-related bills signed by Gov. Brown this week: a possible free year of tuition for all full-time, first-year community college students and a prohibition on expelling students from state-funded preschools.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: California abolishes the high school exit exam, wine-country fires are having an impact on schools, State Board of Education President Mike Kirst says special education is in “big trouble.”

This week: Pedro Noguera on creating inclusive environments for all children, especially the state’s most vulnerable, and the story one of the Bay Area’s 15,000 homeless students trying to finish school without a stable place to call home.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: Louis and John talk to education leaders across the state for their take on the newly released results of the third year of Smarter Balanced assessments. What does it mean that scores are flat in the 3rd year, and how much importance should be placed on them versus other measures of student success?

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: what happened in the waning hours of California’s legislature session, plus CSU’s faculty is rebelling against recently announced changes in remedial education and math requirements.

Produced by Sarah Tan

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.

Produced by Sarah Tan

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.

Produced by Sarah Tan

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.

Produced by Sarah Tan