Getting Students Back to School
Calling the cops: Policing in California schools
Black teachers: How to recruit them and make them stay
Lessons in Higher Education: California and Beyond
Superintendents: Well paid and walking away
Keeping California public university options open
Students who want to attend a four-year public university in California must complete college preparatory courses known as A-G requirements. The sequence of courses often is different from a district’s high school graduation requirement, a source of confusion among many students and parents. In 2023, more than half of high school seniors failed to meet these requirements, which means that they were not eligible to apply to California’s public universities. An EdSource analysis shows rates of college-preparatory course completion among Black and Latino students, as well as those in inland and rural communities, are particularly low.
February 12, 2024
An EdSource analysis found that Black and Latino students are the least likely to complete college preparatory course requirements.
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Better awareness and access to college prep classes can increase the number of students eligible to apply to the state’s universities, a panel said.
View the map to see the percentage of students in each high school who graduate without A-G required courses.
Getting students to fully return to school in the wake of the pandemic remains a struggle for many districts nationwide and in California. While absenteeism has improved, it remains above pandemic levels. The challenge has put a focus on strategies to help students to return from expanded mental health and counseling to better transportation, even incentives like recess in schools, cash payments and teacher mentors. It's a mission with a different vibe than the truancy efforts of years past when districts turned to the courts to make parents accountable.
An EdSource investigation of school policing reveals the vast presence of police in California.
Research shows having a Black teacher in the classroom has a positive impact on students, but the number of Black teachers is declining.
This is a continuing EdSource series on proven innovations in higher education that relate to the problems facing California’s higher education systems.
