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June 26, 2017
Supreme Court rules on church playgrounds; are vouchers for religious schools next?
As with Missouri, California's constitution bans public money for schools run by churches.
John Fensterwald
June 25, 2017
In California push to help students with dyslexia, LA schools take a first step
Parents described the nightmare of a child who is unable to learn to read and the need for schools to provide services to address dyslexia.
Jane Meredith Adams
June 22, 2017
State officials cool to school districts' request to become 'Innovation Zone'
Now's not the time to expand experimentation with school accountability measures, staff tells CORE Districts.
John Fensterwald
June 21, 2017
Reed Hastings backs school board candidates, but opposes elected school boards
The Netflix co-founder who has donated some of the biggest sums to charter school causes in California since 2011 thinks elected school boards are holding back education progress in the United States.
Louis Freedberg and Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 20, 2017
California colleges transform remedial courses to raise graduation rates
Co-requisite courses combine college and remedial level material, give more class time and offer more tutoring. More colleges in California and other states are expected to introduce them.
Larry Gordon
June 20, 2017
Oakland charters more likely to enroll higher-performing students than district schools
About 30 percent of Oakland students attend charter schools – one of the highest concentrations of charter students in the state.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 20, 2017
How the 2017-18 funding increase for California education will be spent
Use EdSource's interactive budget map to see where new education funds are being allocated in California's 2017-18 budget.
Justin Allen, Daniel J. Willis, and John Fensterwald
June 19, 2017
New LA school board member says his election was not about 'the proliferation of charters'
Nick Melvoin says "victory" for him over the next few years would be "across-the-board improvements in the district," not charter growth.
Louis Freedberg
June 18, 2017
New LA school board member says strengthening district schools her first priority
Kelly Gonez was backed by charter school advocates, but says expanding the number of charters is not what she is interested in doing.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 18, 2017
California to raise income limits to allow more children to qualify for subsidized child care
California has not increased its income eligibility limit for subsidized child care since the 2007-08 fiscal year.
Ashley Hopkinson
June 14, 2017
Gov. Brown, Democrats to require school districts to give greater access to unions
Unions fearing a loss of mandatory fees will get access to recruit new workers.
John Fensterwald
June 14, 2017
California urged to improve college access for young men of color
The high school graduation and college attendance rates for black, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander young men is well below that of whites and Asians. A new study by the Education Trust-West urges barriers be lifted and more support offered for those minority male students.
Larry Gordon
June 13, 2017
DeVos says some charter school 'reformers' have become 'just another breed of bureaucrats'
The U.S. education secretary says the movement has departed from its founding principles of creativity and innovation.
Louis Freedberg
June 13, 2017
In a city of charters, the LA school district runs many of them
Unlike independent charters, affiliated charters’ student discipline policies match the district’s. They operate out of district buildings that they don’t have to pay for and the district covers their administrative expenses. Affiliated or dependent charters are “really connected to the mother ship,” said José Cole-Gutiérrez, director of the L.A. Unified’s charter school division, the body that oversees both groups of charters.
Mikhail Zinshteyn
June 13, 2017
California middle class families may still get scholarship help
The Legislature wants to maintain financial aid for UC and CSU students from families earning between $80,000 and $150,000 a year. But that conflicts with Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to phase out the program.