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Oakland Unified teachers picket outside West Oakland Middle School on May 4, 2023. Credit: Andrew Reed / EdSource Teachers unions in school districts across the country are demanding improved salaries, benefits and class sizes when it’s time to renew their contracts. They are also leveraging negotiations to benefit school employees, students and their families. This […]

El Cerrito High senior Ace Lackey operates the control board while hosting a show on the school’s radio station Credit: Ali Tadayon/EdSource The KECG radio station, run by El Cerrito High School students, was a bustling scene on a recent Friday during a radio marathon. Students were in and out of the school’s two radio

Students walking on CSU San Marcos campus. Anne Hall/CSU San Marcos The California State University system lacks the resources and staffing to adequately respond to and handle sexual harassment or discrimination complaints from employees and students, according to a long-awaited independent assessment presented Wednesday to the CSU Board of Trustees.  The full assessment, conducted by

Students at Allendale Elementary School in Oakland Credit: Ashley Hopkinson/EdSource I remember the day in ninth grade algebra when I asked my math teacher the question most students ask: When would I ever use y=mx+b in my “real life?” He did not provide a compelling answer. Like many students, I had a negative relationship with

A panel of experts told EdSource on Tuesday that for English language learners, it’s important to balance phonics and other reading skills all students need with opportunities to grow students’ understanding of the language they are learning. “Good language development is letting students play with words … by practicing saying the words, illustrating what the

A fellowship enabled Michael Gebreslassie, an immigrant from Eritrea, to gain the skills and network he needed to transition from teaching to administration. For decades, leaders of color have been underrepresented in our schools, compounding inequities in California’s classrooms. When I first began teaching in the U.S., I quickly learned that building relationships with my

Without significant changes to the transfer process, California’s community college system will struggle to meet its own goals for transferring students to the state’s public universities, the system’s interim chancellor said Monday. Interim Chancellor Daisy Gonzales told the system’s board of governors that in 2022, the number of California community college students earning an associate

EdSource won 14 awards in the 2022 California Journalism Awards including two that won statewide honors: an investigation into poor working conditions for adjuncts teaching in California Community Colleges and a series on efforts to turn a Central Valley library into a police station and the inequities of library services statewide. The community college investigation,

Credit: Alison Yin/EdSource California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed funds in his recent budget to pay for schools to test kindergarten- to second-grade students for dyslexia. If the Legislature agrees, schools could divert students with the learning difference early in their academic lives to the support they need to read and succeed at the same

Incoming California Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian speaks at a conference in Bakersfield. Emma Gallegos/EdSource California’s incoming community colleges chancellor, Sonya Christians, doesn’t officially step into her new role until June 1, but she has an urgent agenda: enrolling every ninth grader in a college course. Right now, just 6% of California students take a