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Stanford professors Thomas Dee and Sean Reardon. Credit: Stanford In its first public statement on the issue, the California Department of Education last week defended its right to pursue a breach of a data partnership agreement against a Stanford University education professor for participating in a lawsuit against it.  CDE’s rationale failed to persuade numerous […]

Photo: Flickr Clovis Unified School District, the state’s 15th largest school district, plans to switch from its at-large voting system to trustee-area-based voting by the 2024 election, joining most of the state’s other large districts in how they elect their school board members.  The school board, which represents more than 40,000 students, started the process

Dozens of Stockton Unified employees and community members attended a July 7 reception to meet the district’s new superintendent, Michelle Rodriguez. Attendants signed a large welcome card for her. “We have to support our leadership,” said community member John Solis, president of Stockton’s League of United Latin American Citizens, a civil rights organization that promotes

Credit: Corinne Davidson / EdSource My mom always talks about Cantonese being my first language, but it’s hard to believe now that I can barely understand it. When she was 2 years old, my mom and her family immigrated to the United States. Like many other first-generation kids, she grew up speaking her native language,

Students walking on CSU San Marcos campus before the pandemic. Anne Hall/CSU San Marcos This story was updated at 12:57 p.m. with additional quotes. California State University is not on pace to meet its own goals for increasing graduation rates by 2025 and continues to be challenged by racial achievement gaps, according to a report

Community member Kayla Church stands in support of LGBTQ+ community and in opposition to Temecula Valley Unified curriculum ban. Credit: Mallika Seshadri / EdSource Temecula Valley Unified’s school board has created an environment of fear and divisiveness on school campuses since it passed a resolution banning critical race theory, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education There is an emerging consensus around three facts about the impact of Covid and its aftermath on children: The pandemic substantially harmed children’s academic achievement relative to earlier cohorts. There is a gap between reality and how parents and families understand the academic damage done to children. In part

Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource This May, the Los Angeles Unified School District celebrated the 10th anniversary of the School Climate Bill of Rights — a resolution that halted suspensions for willful defiance and brought restorative justice practices into classrooms. Social justice advocates and school board members applauded the nearly 80% reduction in overall suspensions

Courtesy: Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District says it’s on track to roll out universal transitional kindergarten, or UTK, this coming fall — two years ahead of the state’s deadline for all public elementary schools. This past academic year, 317 elementary schools within the district had TK programs — which

Kindergartners in music class at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Alison Yin/EdSource During the 15 years I’ve worked with children in marginalized communities, the arts were a lifeline, not a luxury. Yet, with the continuous defunding of arts programs, particularly in schools where children of color attend, the arts