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It makes sense that school districts across the country are careful about spending money; dollars are hard to find.

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It makes sense that school districts across the country are careful about spending money; dollars are hard to find.

It's presentation day in a fifth grade classroom at Vang Pao Elementary School in Fresno, and some students are more shy than others.
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom released a proposal to strengthen accountability for the Local Control Funding Formula, or LCFF.
An estimated 152,000 California children went missing from public school classrooms amid the pandemic, according to new Stanford research.
Contract negotiations are coming to a head between West Contra Costa Unified and its teachers union, the United Teachers of Richmond.
The next chancellor of the CSU system should be a leader who can boldly address the needs of a diverse student body.
The new Cal Poly Humboldt is gaining attention with a record number of applications for its fall 2023 class, an expected influx.
The Cal State Univ., system sought a court order to protect three Chico State academics and a graduate student from a suspended professor.
Freshman Aiyanna Randolph wants to be a screenwriter, inspired by her neighbor who was a producer for the ABC show “Black-ish.”
California and the rest of the nation is facing a literacy crisis in which children are struggling to learn to read at grade level.
ChatGPT, other artificial intelligence, and writing tools can generate humanlike stories, essays, poems, and other written forms.
New research tracking high school juniors in Los Angeles Unified found those who took math as seniors were better qualified for college.
Students who were once English learners but are now proficient in English do better on average on California's standardized tests.
It's either a never-ending maze with setbacks and no path forward, or an intimidating process that requires skilled navigation and luck.
Andrea Ross, a graduate student at San Diego State, already was worried last year about how she would be able to make rent payments.
California state leaders seem to be quietly closing the door on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for schoolchildren.
Black students face increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide. But one group of young people is working hard to reverse that.
Assembly Bill 928, legislation from the 2021 legislative year, was one of several recent bills developed by corporate-funded advocacy.
The cuts can be largely offset with the nearly $1 billion earmarked for arts education through Proposition 28, many arts advocates say.
Gov. Gavin Newsom just released his budget for the 2023-24 year; the message regarding education funding was guardedly optimistic.