Education Beat
Special education student becomes school board member
New school board member Joshua Brown has autism and is one of only a handful of people known to have autism nationwide to serve in public office.
Black teachers: How to recruit them and make them stay
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
New school board member Joshua Brown has autism and is one of only a handful of people known to have autism nationwide to serve in public office.
The largest academic strike in U.S. history ended with a landmark agreement between UC and graduate student teaching assistants and researchers.
John Fensterwald gets out his crystal ball and tells us a fortune – what he thinks might happen in California education in the new year.
Thousands of students left California’s community colleges. Listen to one student’s difficult decision, and what colleges can do to win students back.
Covid robbed students of learning, especially in math, after more than a year of attending high school from home. What are colleges doing to help?
A little-known court decision from last year makes it easier to pass parcel taxes. Could this be a game-changer for low-income school districts?
Host Zaidee Stavely talks with a student whose college path was transformed by a house for formerly incarcerated students and with a reporter about how this program came about.
We hear from teachers about workshops that helped them and about what their own childhood experiences as English learners taught them.
A student shares how taking college courses while still in high school helped her get ahead in college and save on tuition. But access to these courses remains uneven across California.
This week we hear from an attendance counselor who tracks down missing students and tries to get them back to class.