January 31, 2022

California ready to launch $3 billion, multiyear transition to community schools

Districts can soon apply for funding to transform schools by expanding services for the "whole child" and extensively involving parents.

John Fensterwald

January 25, 2022

Newsom's education budget is opportunity for California’s workforce talent supply

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2022–23 education budget proposal would represent a major investment in California's supply chain of workforce talent.

Anne Stanton

January 23, 2022

Quarantines are costing our students financially

California schools must be allowed to follow state-mandated quarantine requirements without losing funding.

Mala Batra

January 13, 2022

The right priorities? Reactions to Gov. Newsom's K-12 budget for 2022-23

Leaders representing all segments of California's education system share their reactions to the governor’s proposed 2022-23 budget for the state's K-12 public schools.

EdSource staff

December 29, 2021

Several options, big decisions loom for funding school construction

A 40-year-old initiative putting a ceiling on state spending may restrict how a budget surplus can be used; one option is capital spending on schools.

John Fensterwald

December 13, 2021

When 'making the grade' takes on new meaning

I knew this year would test my personal code of ethics about grades: Effort and improvement should supersede a grade.

Anne Vasquez

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

November 24, 2021

Researchers urge changes to improve California’s education funding law

Suggestions include confronting disparities in staffing fully qualified teachers and more evenly distributing money for high-needs students.

John Fensterwald

November 17, 2021

Community colleges are still wasting Black and Latino students’ time

By shrugging off the law against putting students into noncredit, nontransferrable remedial courses, colleges continue to trap students in a never-ending cycle leading to failure.

Jetaun Stevens

November 1, 2021

Now is the time for learner-centered, whole-child education

We must not allow our desire to return to “normal” and our conditioning to the status quo to pull us back to what was familiar before the pandemic.

Devin Vodicka, Kim Smith, Jen Holleran, and Jean-Claude Brizard

October 26, 2021

Rebuilding community: Simpler than it sounds, harder than it looks

After the devastating emotional and mental toll of the pandemic, it is almost unthinkable to imagine asking students to learn to read, play an instrument, or solve algebra equations without first rebuilding a nurturing and safe environment.

Tony Solina

October 18, 2021

California districts anticipate major hits to their 2022-23 budgets as enrollments drop

School districts seeing major enrollment and attendance drops fear substantial funding cuts in the 2022-23 school year.

Ali Tadayon

October 14, 2021

Nearly half of money for high-needs students not getting to their schools, analysis finds

Research by the Public Policy Institute of California compares Local Control Funding Formula allocations to school-level spending.

John Fensterwald

October 8, 2021

Proposed 2022 California ballot initiative sets stage to define 'high-quality' education

David Welch, who lost a lawsuit challenging teacher tenure, is trying a new tack: a constitutional guarantee for a "high-quality" education.

John Fensterwald

October 7, 2021

Changes to California's youth prison system prove difficult to implement

By 2023 each county will have to take over the responsibility of finding appropriate housing facilities for young people in their local juvenile justice system. Implementing the law is proving to be difficult.

Betty Márquez Rosales