October 25, 2022

Adjuncts sue California community college system, eight local districts over unpaid work hours

Adjuncts representing eight California community college districts statewide are suing for back pay to cover time spent outside the classroom meeting with students and other course work.

Thomas Peele

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

October 19, 2022

School choice advocate, CTA opponent Lance Christensen would be a very different state superintendent

Christensen faces long odds to defeat much better financed incumbent Tony Thurmond, but he assumes parents frustrated by pandemic school closures will vote for change.

John Fensterwald

October 18, 2022

Preliminary glimpse at test scores shows steep declines in reading, math

Results from some of California's largest districts show that pandemic challenges lingered through 2022.

Carolyn Jones And Daniel J. Willis

October 14, 2022

Let's design early education facilities now to meet the challenge of climate change

Children aren't responsible for climate change, but they'll experience the worst of it unless we make sure the places they'll spend growing and learning are prepared to protect them.

Angie Garling, Jeff Vincent, Isabelle Donohoe, and Joe Fretwell

October 13, 2022

Conservatives are waging a war for control over California school boards

The California Republican Party, churches and other conservative organizations hope to ride a wave of parent discontent to victories in school board races across the state.

Diana Lambert

October 12, 2022

How California schools can deliver on the promise of universal meals

At a moment when school nutrition directors are facing unprecedented challenges — rising food costs, widespread staff shortages, supply chain uncertainty — here are five practical things schools can do to provide nutritious, fulfilling meals to all California students.

Kirsten Saenz Tobey

October 10, 2022

College Corps, with California's first state-run tutoring initiative, is off and running

3,200 college students from 46 campuses will receive $10,000 stipend; half will tutor in 33 school districts, after-school programs in service programs modeled after AmeriCorps and Peace Corps.

John Fensterwald

October 7, 2022

Why EdSource pushed for the release of California test scores

My children, who were in 4th and 9th grade when the world shut down in March 2020, lost some ground over the last two years in key academic areas. How could they not? 

Anne Vasquez

October 4, 2022

California removes hurdles to building teacher housing

California school districts will now be able to avoid some local regulations when building affordable staff housing on its property.

Diana Lambert

September 29, 2022

The Right To Read: It took a lawsuit against California

California settled a lawsuit over literacy by giving 70 schools with the lowest 2019 test scores extra funding to teach children to read. Less than half of all third graders in the state scored at grade level in reading.

Karen D'Souza

September 28, 2022

Linda Darling-Hammond wins major prize for her education research and its impact

California State Board of Education president wins prestigious Yidan Prize for her education research at Stanford.

John Fensterwald

September 28, 2022

How California is responding to dire student housing shortage

Rising costs have exacerbated California's student housing crisis. The state is responding with plans for more on-campus dorms, and a new bill could make it easier for colleges to expand housing. Some campuses turned to short-term solutions.

Michael Burke, Ashley A. Smith, Betty Márquez Rosales, And Ashleigh Panoo

September 27, 2022

California reverses course, will release Smarter Balanced test scores next month, official says

State test results that will reveal how students fared through the pandemic will be released in October, a state official now says. This is a reversal of of the state's position just last week in which it refused an EdSource public records request to release the data.

Thomas Peele

September 26, 2022

Newsom rejects second effort to make more community college adjunct faculty eligible for health care

Assembly Bill 1856 would have allowed adjuncts to teach as much as 85% of a full-time teaching load, or roughly four classes a term, a level that would qualify them for health care coverage.

Thomas Peele