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Credit: Karyn Kudrna / iStock Xochtil Larios entered adulthood with a $3,500 restitution debt to her name after years in the foster and juvenile justice systems. She was determined to move forward, but the restitution debt from a crime she was charged with as a teenager felt insurmountable. The debt impacted her “mentally, physically, financially, […]

Kai Sanchez, 14, takes an online Spanish class from one of her teachers at Half Moon Bay High School on April 1, 2020. Photo: Brian Feulner/San Francisco Chronicle/Polaris This fall, in a courtroom in Oakland, lawyers will reexamine the pandemic’s impact on K-12 schools in California — a subject many people might prefer to forget

Credit: Cal State Student Association (CSSA) As president of the Cal State Student Association representing over 480,000 students within the California State University system, I am deeply disturbed by the CSU’s recent move to propose tuition hikes while simultaneously inflating presidential and chancellor salaries. This development starkly contradicts our educational system’s core mission: to provide

A Nystrom Elementary School teacher in West Contra Costa Unified works with a student on sight words. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource Update — West Contra Costa Unified had 75 vacancies by Tuesday, Aug. 22 Amid the ongoing national teacher shortage, West Contra Costa Unified started its second week of the 2023-24 school year with

A teacher checks in on her 1st grade students during a math test at Robbins Elementary. Photo: Sydney Johnson Most of the ink spilled on the new California Mathematics Framework was focused on two debates that have persisted in K-12 education for decades: whether progressive or traditional forms of pedagogy serve students best and how

The Lisa Project is a child abuse awarness exhibit that immerses participants in the reality many children face. Organizations in Merced County hope to bring a full-size exhibit, like the one pictured, to the community. Photo courtesy of The Lisa Project Six rooms, each a different story, holding the secrets of a different child and

Reedley College is one of the few community colleges in California that has offered on-campus housing for its students. The college in the rural Central Valley has offered housing to its students for over 50 years. Credit: Emma Gallegos Community college leaders across California are asking lawmakers to reconsider changes made in this year’s state

Photo by Carolyn Jones / EdSource Stanford Graduate School of Education professor Thomas Dee can breathe a lot easier; so, too, can other researchers who could imagine themselves in the same conflict with the California Department of Education. Lawyers for CDE notified Dee on Wednesday that it won’t carry out a threat to retaliate against

Participants of San Francisco Parent Action’s Board of Education Bootcamp Fellowship at their graduation from the program. Courtesy: San Francisco Parent Action Three difficult years as parents of San Francisco Unified public school students has motivated each of us to consider running for office and taking part in a candidate training program with a local

Against a backdrop of plummeting test scores and grim pandemic learning loss, the science of reading has been gaining traction, but literacy experts warn there are myriad challenges ahead. Solving the deepening literacy crisis will require far more than just teaching more phonics. Many states and cities are embracing the idea that reading should be