Education

Commencement 2024 at Sacramento State. Credit: Bibiana Ortiz / Sacramento State It’s not every day that California State University students get a specific greeting from a U.S. president. But this year at CSU Sacramento, former President Barack Obama sent a message to the students of the new Black Honors College. “As members of the inaugural […]

A general view of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento. Credit: Kirby Lee / AP Higher revenues than Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators predicted will likely produce a modest increase in funding in 2025-26 for TK-12 schools and community colleges, the Legislative Analyst’s Office projected on Wednesday.  The growth in revenues will also pay

The California State University Board of Trustees discusses a proposal to merge Cal Maritime and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Nov. 20, 2024. Credit: Amy DiPierro / EdSource California State University took another step Wednesday toward merging Cal Maritime in Vallejo, its smallest campus, with the university system’s most selective institution, Cal Poly San

Signage for the U.S. Department of Education – Federal Student Aid Office in Washington, D.C. Credit: Carlos Kosienski/Sipa via AP Images In 1994, I was the press cecretary for the U.S. Department of Education when Republicans took over Congress and threatened to shut us down. My then boss, Secretary Dick Riley, would joke in almost

The California community colleges will soon implement changes to STEM math placement in which more students will be enrolled directly in calculus without first taking a longer sequence of lower-level courses such as precalculus and trigonometry. On Tuesday, during an EdSource roundtable, “A new law aims to expand access to STEM. What troubles some educators?”

Credit: Julie Leopo/EdSource As anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ policies and rhetoric spread across the nation in the wake of President Donald Trump’s re-election, the Los Angeles Unified School District school board affirmed its commitment to members of these communities by unanimously passing four resolutions at Tuesday’s board meeting. “The district will continue to do everything in

Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City. Credit: Flickr The parents of a former student of a San Jose charter school and six families in a wealthy Bay Area high school district have filed separate lawsuits charging “rampant” civil rights violations resulting from bullying, taunting, ostracism and other forms of antisemitic conduct. In the

National University President Mark D. Milliron, right,,congratulates a graduating student at the university’s 2023 commencement. Courtesy: National University In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision to end race-conscious college admissions, the predicted impact has become a troubling reality. Many selective universities are reporting significant decreases in Black student enrollment this fall.

This map collected data from both the California State Water Resources Control Board (from Jan. 1, 2017 to Sept. 24, 2020) and several districts that conducted their own water testing, such as Oakland Unified, which recently published 2024 data. Compared to the map EdSource published in 2018, this map has added active lead levels at

Oakland students rally for lead-free drinking water in their schools in front of city hall Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. Monica Velez Oakland student Hannah Lau said she only discovered there were elevated lead levels in her school’s drinking water this year through her teacher. There wasn’t an announcement from the principal, nor was there an