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California Teachers are Using AI to Grade Papers. Who’s Grading the AI?

Khari Smith

Teens Don’t Trust Ads for Financial Aid. Why California Is Polishing Its Pitch

Mikhail Zinshteyn

Black Leaders Provide Roadmap To Reparations In California

Sharmarke Holif

Future of High School: How California Growers Are Training Teens the Trade

The 74

Newsom and the Legislature Divided On College Spending As Budget Deadline Nears

Mikhail Zinshteyn

LA Parents Concerned Over School Safety as Violence Spikes on Campuses

Jinge Li

Personalized Learning Boosts Student Engagement, Reduces Pandemic Learning Loss

William R. Hite

L.A. Schools Investigates Data Breach as FCC Approves $200M Cybersecurity Pilot

Mark Keierleber

California Law Change Could Allow Campus Work for Undocumented Students

Mikhail Zinshteyn & Adam Echelman

Pre-K Enrollment Surges in US, With Mississippi & New Mexico Making Big Strides

Linda Jacobson

When Is a California College Degree Worth the Cost? A New Study Has Answers

Mikhail Zinshteyn

Scorching Schoolyards: California Groups Want More Trees, Less Asphalt at Schools

Alejandra Reyes-Velarde

New Survey Shows Teachers Want Change. Their Contracts Could Help Make It Happen

Evan Stone

How Does a School District Go Broke With $1.1B in Revenues? When It Spends $1.3B

Chad Aldeman

Financial Literacy Is Great. Mandating It With a Ballot Initiative Is Not

Morgan Polikoff

California High School Requirement Could Include Personal Finance Course

Carolyn Jones

The Los Angeles Charter School Wars Are Headed To Court. Here’s What’s At Stake

Ben Chapman

COVID Relief Funds for CA Colleges are Expiring. Now What?

Adam Echelman

California Launches New Mental Health-based Apps for Families and Youth

Erick Trevino

Survey Finds Many Gen Zers Say School Lacks a ‘Sense of Purpose’

Joshua Bay

Teacher Prep Programs See ‘Encouraging’ Growth, New Federal Data Reveal

Marianna McMurdock

Will Less Homework Stress Make California Students Happier?

Lynn La

Is the Hardest Job in Education Selling Parents on San Francisco Public Schools?

Gail Cornwall

WATCH: Legos & Rubik’s Cube Inspired California Teen’s Homelessness Solution

Jim Fields

California’s Disabled Students Left Behind During Emergencies

Amelia Wu

California Community Colleges are Losing Millions to Financial Aid Fraud

Adam Echelman

New Poll Finds Overwhelming Support for More Trade Classes in L.A. High Schools

Sierra Lyons

California Financial Aid: Students May Get More Time to File

Mikhail Zinshteyn

An Appreciation: How Don Shalvey Shaped the Charter School Movement

Louis Freedberg

California Schools Gained Billions During COVID-19. Now the Money is Running Out

Carolyn Jones

Why Rural Schools Say California Leaders Have Forgotten Them

Carolyn Jones

These Fed-Up Parents Fought California’s Pandemic Schooling and Won. Now What?

Carolyn Jones

How High-Quality Leadership Pipeline Promotes Home-Grown Talent in California

Jill Baker & Julia Rafal-Baer

Gas, Food, Lodging for Homeless Students in Jeopardy as Funding Deadline Looms

Linda Jacobson

Settling Lawsuit, California Agrees to Channel $2 Billion to Struggling Learners

Kevin Mahnken

Leaked Active School Shooter Plans Revive Scrutiny of Ed Tech Privacy Pledge

Mark Keierleber

University of California Rejects Proposal for Campuses to Hire Undocumented Students

Mikhail Zinshteyn

NAEP Results Can be a Catalyst for Change — If States Embrace the Data

Lesley Muldoon

Exclusive Data: Thousands of Schools at Risk of Closing Due to Enrollment Loss

Linda Jacobson

This California School District Made a Difference on Black Students’ Scores

Carolyn Jones

How Are California’s Students Doing? New School Dashboard Is Out

Carolyn Jones

Reading Scores Climb After Targeted Intervention at California’s Worst-Performing Schools

Carolyn Jones

30% of Our Alumni Experienced Housing Instability — How They Succeeded Here

Naomi Lara & Erin Whalen

Recognizing Fake News Now a Required Subject in California Schools

Carolyn Jones

California Celebrates Its Linguistic Diversity While Shortchanging Bilingual Ed

Conor P. Williams

Q&A: LA School Board Member Nick Melvoin Talks About His Congressional Run

Katie VanArnam

California Teachers Association Continues to Lose Members and Raise Union Dues

Mike Antonucci

Computer Science Teacher Shortage Puts CA Near Bottom of U.S. Instruction Ranking

Carolyn Jones

Survey: AI is Here, but Only California and Oregon Guide Schools on its Use

Greg Toppo

 LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho Visits Homes of Chronically Absent Students

Erick Trevino

In Los Angeles, a Tiny School Lets Young People Direct Their Own Education

Kerry McDonald

What California Transitional Kindergarten Needs to Succeed

Carolyn Jones

WATCH: California Teen’s App Is Inspiring Girls & Young Women to Go Into STEM

Jim Fields

A Degree Without Classes & Lectures? California Community Colleges Try New Approach

Adam Echelman

Soaring Chronic Absenteeism in California Schools is at ‘Pivotal Moment’

Carolyn Jones

Starting School Before Age 2 Helps Children Avoid Achievement Gaps, Study Finds

Linda Jacobson

Hit the Snooze Button: States Debate Later High School Start Times

Elaine S. Povich

End of Pell Grant Ban Clears the Way for New Wave of Prison Education Programs

Wayne D’Orio

Enrollment Continues to Decline in LAUSD, a Trend Many Large Public School Districts are Also Experiencing

Nova Blanco-Rico & Balin Schneider

Outraged Over Admissions Policies at Harvard? Take a Look at the Public Schools

Tim DeRoche

How Many Cal State Employees are Accused of Sexual Harassment? Here’s Why It’s Hard to Know

Mikhail Zinshteyn

Goodbye Hotdogs, Hello Vegan Masala: California’s School Lunches Are Going Gourmet

Carolyn Jones

How Many Start Teacher Training — & How Many Finish? The Numbers Are Disturbing

Susan Kemper Patrick

Back to School: 6 Tips From Students on How to Make High School Relevant

Beth Fertig

10 Cool & Powerful Ways to Inspire Teens to Self-Start, Learn in the Real World

Beth Fertig & Edward Montalvo

Schools Are Now the Leading Target for Cyber Gangs as Ransom Payments Encourage Attacks

Mark Keierleber

California Wine Region ‘Growing Futures’ By Turning Vineyards Into Classrooms

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

A ‘Constitutional Right’ to a High-Quality Education?

Joe Hong

Analysis: State Laws Leave Schools Unprepared for a Post-COVID ‘Fiscal Cliff’

Linda Jacobson

LAUSD Moves Forward With Revamped Math and Reading Intervention Program

Will Callan

California Sees 9% Jump in Homeless Students

Joe Hong & Erica Yee

Schools in Poorer Neighborhoods Struggle to Keep Teachers. How Offering Them More Power Might Help

Joe Hong

George Clooney Champions a Los Angeles HS Connecting Classes to Hollywood Jobs

Linda Jacobson

Why the ‘Science of Reading’ May be the Next Dyslexia Battleground in California

Joe Hong

From CA to MA, What Teachers Unions Have Been Doing in Statehouses Nationwide

Mike Antonucci

Many California Youth Justice System Students Graduate with Grade-School Reading Skills

Betty Márquez Rosales & Daniel J. Willis

LA Looks to Expand Popular Math Program Without Clear Evidence of Effectiveness

Will Callan

Pre-K Enrollment Nearly Bounces Back From Pandemic Amid Push for Universal Access

Linda Jacobson

Q&A: LAUSD Student’s Journey to 2023 California Student Journalist of the Year

Bryan Sarabia

Exclusive: As Post-Pandemic Enrollment Lags, Schools Compete for Fewer Students

Linda Jacobson

California Teen, a ‘16 Under 16 in STEM’, Gets a Big Surprise on The Kelly Clarkson Show

The 74

Undocumented Students Qualify For Financial Aid in California. Why Aren’t More of Them Using it?

Carmen González

The Pandemic’s Virtual Learning is Now a Permanent Fixture of America’s Schools

Conor P. Williams

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E14: How to Design a College Alternative

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Public-Sector Hiring Boomed Post-COVID. Union Membership Nationwide Did Not

Mike Antonucci

In California, ‘Slow and Steady’ Is Winning With a Tougher Science Curriculum

Nicole DiRanna

Class Disrupted: When Students Help Direct What They’re Taught in School

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Los Angeles Schools Look to Confront Dire Chronic Absenteeism Numbers

LeeAnna Villarreal

Why California Schools Are Adding Hundreds of Ethnic Studies Classes

Megan Tagami

Q&A: Rocketship Schools Co-Founder Reflects on 15 Years of Empowering Parents

Richard Whitmire

Free Textbooks? It Could Soon Be a Reality at California’s Community Colleges

Alyssa Story & Carmen González

Ransomware Group Claims Massive Data Leak But MN Files’ Whereabouts a Mystery

Mark Keierleber

In New Graphic Novel, Pandemic Scatters a Vulnerable School Community

Greg Toppo

Momentum Builds for Helping Students Adapt to College by Nixing Freshman Grades

Jon Marcus

Despite Union Opposition, Many California Teachers Support Dyslexia Screening For All Students

Joe Hong

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E11: Scaling the New, Sunsetting the Old

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Hackers Use Stolen Student Data Against Minneapolis Schools in Brazen New Threat

Mark Keierleber

16 Under 16: Where Are The 74’s 2022 Class of STEM Achievers Now?

Emmeline Zhao

L.A. Schools Admits Sensitive Student Records Leaked After 74 Investigation

The 74

Trove of L.A. Students’ Mental Health Records Posted to Dark Web After Cyber Hack

Mark Keierleber
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