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Reforms
December 9, 2022

Does your district have what it takes to significantly improve?

Pivot Learning releases the District Readiness Index, a database for measuring how well California districts have met the conditions needed to make sustainable change.

John Fensterwald
Testing and Accountability
October 26, 2022

Why some schools saw their scores soar despite Covid — and others didn't

A look at individual districts reveals a nuanced picture of Smarter Balanced test results.

Carolyn Jones
Testing and Accountability
October 24, 2022

2022 California standardized test results wipe out years of steady progress

Smarter Balanced scores fell sharply in both math and English language arts, indicating it could take years for students to fully recover from the pandemic.

John Fensterwald And Daniel J. Willis
Testing and Accountability
October 23, 2022

Scores nationwide crater on national math test, California’s not quite so much

Scores for the nation and California took a historic drop in fourth and eighth grade math on the National Assessment for Educational Progress or NAEP. There was some good news, too, for California, despite the pandemic.

John Fensterwald
Testing and Accountability
September 22, 2022

State delays public release of English, math and science test score results to later this year

Delaying the public release of Smarter Balanced tests taken last spring undermines the urgency of addressing setbacks in learning during the pandemic.

John Fensterwald And Thomas Peele
Credentialing
August 4, 2022

Poorer students still get the least qualified teachers, but California has made progress

There are 40% more teachers in poor schools who lack the required qualifications than in the richest schools, an EdSource analysis found.

Diana Lambert, John Fensterwald, And Daniel J. Willis
Data
June 30, 2022

Find your school's teacher qualifications | Database

Database shows percentage of classes taught by teachers with the different qualifications.

Daniel J. Willis
School Finance
May 13, 2022

Billions more for California schools, colleges under Newsom's revised budget

One-time and ongoing Proposition 98 funding would be an unprecedented $35 million more than the Legislature appropriated a year ago.

John Fensterwald, Karen D'Souza, Ali Tadayon, Michael Burke, And Ashley A. Smith
Class of 2022
May 4, 2022

Class of 2022

For the first time in two decades, California’s K-12 enrollment dropped under 6 million students, a sure sign that many students did not return after the pandemic. But within the state, there was movement: sharp enrollment declines in coastal counties and sharp increases inland. This reporting series from EdSource looks at the changes and trends in California public school enrollment.

EdSource staff
California's Enrollment Rollercoaster
April 21, 2022

California's Enrollment Rollercoaster

For the first time in two decades, California’s K-12 enrollment dropped under 6 million students, a sure sign that many students did not return after the pandemic. But within the state, there was movement: sharp enrollment declines in coastal counties and sharp increases inland. This reporting series from EdSource looks at the changes and trends in California public school enrollment.

EdSource staff
California's Enrollment Rollercoaster
April 11, 2022

California K-12 enrollment plunges again, falls below 6 million

Led by continued hemorrhaging of student enrollment in Los Angeles County and parts of the Bay Area, total public school enrollment in California dropped by 110,000 this year, the second year of big losses.

John Fensterwald And Daniel J. Willis
California's Enrollment Rollercoaster
April 11, 2022

Updated with 2021-22 data: Pandemic drop in K-12 California enrollment caps two decades of swings

View and interact with school enrollment data showing regional changes in California over the last two decades.

Yuxuan Xie And Daniel J. Willis
Math and Science
April 5, 2022

Student math scores touch off ‘five-alarm fire’ in California

The pandemic compounded the challenge of teaching math at grade level when many California students may be three or four years behind.

John Fensterwald
Statewide Longitudinal Data System
December 2, 2021

California data system to help with education planning moves closer to reality

The data system's board met for the first time this week. The system will pull together hundreds of metrics on education, economics and health for the public.

Matt Krupnick
Data
November 8, 2021

Find out how much California school districts and charter schools received in Covid relief | Database

See how the over $13.6 billion in federal aid to California’s K-12 schools will be spent using this interactive database.

Daniel J. Willis And Justin Allen