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Gov. Gavin Newsom (left) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right). Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource & Gage Skidmore/Flickr There’s a saying in politics that most people will vote for the candidate they’d rather have a beer with. I’ve been thinking about this a lot after hearing that California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron […]

Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education Letty Kraus knows her way around the arts ed world. She started teaching dance at the ripe old age of 15, while she was still in high school. First she convinced her old middle school to let her teach a dance class for kids after school. Then she started

Attorney General Rob Bonta Credit: Office of the Attorney General California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit today against Chino Valley Unified asking the San Bernardino County Superior Court to end a district policy that requires school staff to tell parents if their child asks to be identified by a different gender or name, or accesses

Students in a combined second- and third-grade at UCLA community school talk in pairs. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages “It takes a village.” When it comes to raising a child, we hear this phrase often. It takes extended families, neighbors and close friends to raise a child. It not only takes the support of society

Jackie Goldberg, holding hands with wife Sharon Stricker, is sworn in as L.A. school board member on May 21, 2019, by retired Judge Teresa Sanchez-Gordon. Credit: Michael Burke/EdSource Jackie Goldberg, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board, announced earlier this month that she will retire in December 2024 after completing her

Record-high chronic absentee rates in California show little sign of returning to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon, and data shows that’s especially true for kindergarten students. Chronic absenteeism surged to 40% among kindergarten students in the 2021-22 school year, said Hedy Nai-Lin Chang, founder and executive director of Attendance Works. Initial numbers from the 2022-23 school

This story was updated to include how many incarcerated persons are expected to be enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs this fall. For years, incarcerated people in California’s state prisons have been able to earn associate degrees.  But a movement to award bachelor’s degrees has been rapidly expanding.  Since 2016, when California State University, Los Angeles,

August 24, 2023 The last couple of years have seen an expansion of bachelor’s degree programs in prison. Inside the first women’s program at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, incarcerated women are working to rebuild their lives by pursuing these higher degrees. Guests: Melanie Gandara, formerly incarcerated student Canesha Sherron Sinclair, incarcerated student

Dortell Williams Credit: Julie Leopo-Bermudez / EdSource I graduated from high school with a 2.85 GPA. Then I graduated summa cum laude as an undergraduate, with a 3.93 GPA — while in prison. I earned both GPAs. In high school, I was a class clown. I did anything to avoid academics or the trauma they

Students in the Kapor Center’s SMASH program, which provides training in STEM fields to high school and college students from marginalized backgrounds. Courtesy: Kapor Center Far too often, ZIP-code and socioeconomic status determine whether California students have access to a computer science education — and those who don’t live in the right school district often