Education

West Contra Costa Unified School District administration building. Credit: Louis Freedberg / EdSource For the first time in five years, the West Contra Costa school district board of trustees has denied a renewal petition of one of its charter schools. By a unanimous vote on Wednesday, the board rejected the renewal application of the Richmond […]

West Contra Costa Unified School District administration building. Credit: Louis Freedberg / EdSource For the first time in five years, the West Contra Costa school district board of trustees has denied a renewal petition of one of its charter schools. By a unanimous vote on Wednesday, the board rejected the renewal application of the Richmond

West Contra Costa Unified School District administration building. Credit: Louis Freedberg / EdSource TOP TAKEAWAYS West Contra Costa Unified anticipates it will receive only about $600,000 of $4.2 million it was awarded last year.  The cut is part of a big push by the Trump administration to roll back or eliminate funding to support student

Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education My time on the high school football field was spent with a snare drum strapped around my chest. As a student who was easily distracted in the academic classroom and struggled to apply myself, band class was a welcome reprieve during the day. Playing the drums was my niche,

The international students office at Grossmont College in El Cajon,. Amy DiPierro Top Takeaways About 14,000 international students attend California’s community colleges, many of them in the Bay Area. Community colleges charge international students as much as 10 times resident tuition. The Trump administration said it is restoring abruptly revoked international student visas, but anxiety

An elementary student reads on his own in class. Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education KEY Takeaways The California Teachers Association testifies in support of the compromise. Co-author: Reaching a deal was by far her hardest challenge as a legislator. Up against a deadline, an Assembly committee endorses a bill they haven’t actually read. A

Credit: Allison Shelley / American Education KEY TAKEAWAYS The new bill will offer state-approved training and textbooks to all TK-5th-grade teachers. State-sanctioned training will be voluntary, part of the compromise. A shift toward in evidence-based strategies, including phonics, moves away from local control. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has nudged parties at odds on how early

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has nudged parties at odds on how early literacy should be taught to agree to legislation that could significantly advance reading proficiency in California. After weeks of intense talks following months of stalled negotiations, a new bill that Rivas, D-Salinas, will co-author will have a hearing April 30, the deadline for

Policing experts say that discipline is the responsibility of school administrators, not law enforcement. Many California school districts’ contracts for policing services do not prohibit officers from involvement in routine student disciplinary matters, despite the federal government’s guidance that administrators are responsible for handling those issues, an EdSource investigation found. EdSource obtained 118 contracts between

Students walk to class during passing periods at Pacifica High School, which is part of the Oxnard Union High School District. Credit: J. Marie / EdSource Last year, a Washington Post investigation identified more than 200 school police officers across the country “who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.”