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EdSource’s quick guides make complex education issues easier to understand. These brief explanatory articles provide an introduction to key trends, systems, institutions and debates in California education and the context you need to go deeper. Have a suggestion for a topic that would benefit from a similar explainer? Let us know!

Quick Guides
June 9, 2021

Quick Guide: Ethnic studies requirement coming to California community colleges

California's community colleges plan to require many students to take an ethnic studies class. Here's what you need to know.

Michael Burke
Quick Guides
June 4, 2021

Quick guide: How do college savings accounts work?

Learn more about college savings accounts and state and local proposals to start them for low-income youth.

Ali Tadayon And Betty Márquez Rosales
Coronavirus
May 18, 2021

Quick Guide: Where do things stand on in-person instruction in California?

This guide provides answers to frequently asked questions about how California is moving forward with plans for reopening the state’s K-12 schools for full in-person instructions.

EdSource staff
Quick Guides
April 4, 2021

Quick Guide: What California’s now defunct color-coded county tracking system meant for schools

Learn more about the state's tiered system of assessing coronavirus risk and how it relates to schools.

Ali Tadayon
Coronavirus
February 25, 2021

Quick Guide: California colleges and universities respond to the coronavirus

Get quick answers to common questions about California colleges and universities are responding to the pandemic and how students can access aid and support.

Ashley A. Smith, Michael Burke, And Larry Gordon
School Finance
September 30, 2020

Quick Guide: Proposition 15, the proposed ‘split-roll’ tax on commercial property, defeated

Big corporate property owners would pay the bulk of new taxes; opponents claim costs would be borne by small business renters.

John Fensterwald
Coronavirus
September 11, 2020

Quick Guide: What California parents and students should know about the coronavirus

EdSource provides the latest information on the many changes underway.

Theresa Harrington
Teachers
July 30, 2020

Quick Guide: Who are California's teachers?

Who are California's teachers? How do they become teachers? Who awards them their credentials? Get the answers to these questions and more in this quick guide.

Joan Bissell And Louis Freedberg
Quick Guides
July 22, 2020

Quick Guide: How has the pandemic altered California’s school accountability reforms?

California has put on hold most aspects of its school accountability system. Learn more about how the state is handling accountability during the coronavirus pandemic.

EdSource Staff
Quick Guides
July 13, 2020

Quick Guide: What University of California campuses are planning

The nine UC undergraduate campuses are all preparing either distance learning plans or restrictions and safety measures for on campus learning. This database provides an overview of what the campuses are planning.

Michael Burke And Louis Freedberg
Distance Learning
April 29, 2020

Quick Guide: How to protect a student’s privacy online

Privacy experts share best practices for video as California schools make the switch to online learning. 

Sydney Johnson
School Finance
January 31, 2020

Quick Guide: What California voters need to know about proposed $15 billion school construction bond

The state bond will underwrite some construction costs of schools and universities, with extra help for low-income districts.

John Fensterwald
Foster Youth
December 30, 2019

Quick Guide: Students in foster care

More than 34,000 students in foster care attend California's K-12 schools. Learn more about their unique challenges and the support systems in place to help them navigate through the education system.

Alexander Montero
Student Health
June 20, 2019

Quick Guide: What schools and parents need to know about California’s vaccination law

Proposed changes to California's 2015 vaccination law now being considered in the Legislature would limit medical exemptions.

Jane Meredith Adams And Diana Lambert
College & Careers
June 20, 2018

Quick Guide: Tuition-free college in California

Over 1 million students already attend California colleges and universities tuition-free. A new law could add more students.

Nico Savidge