California Education

Joy Resmovits

Race To The Top Adds School Districts To U.S. Education Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.22.2012

Race to the Top, the U.S. Education Department's $4.35 billion contest, is getting personal. The competition this year opens $400 million in grant ...

California's 4th Year Of Teacher Layoffs Spur Concerns

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 05.05.2012

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Unified teacher Mike Newman sighed when he saw the now familiar certified letter in his mailbox last month – a pink s...

Why Is Special Education Suffering?

| Joanna Lin | Posted 05.03.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch By Joanna Lin After failing for the eighth straight year to meet service delivery targets ...

No More Dodging: Calif. Must Decide On Algebra Or Common Core

| John Fensterwald | Posted 04.27.2012

This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. For nearly two years, Califo...

1940 Census Reveals California Was Once The Most Educated State In The Nation

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Joanna Lin | Posted 04.03.2012

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Joanna Lin The National Archives released for the first time yesterday individual records fro...

Education Not Incarceration for Young Men of Color

Fermin Vasquez | Posted 05.24.2012

Fermin Vasquez

The future of California depends on the brainpower of the next generation. We cannot march victorious into the future without our young men. It is time to turn the page.

Why We Marched in Sacramento

Chucho Mendoza | Posted 05.07.2012

Chucho Mendoza

The headline in this week's news, "Harvard Now Cheaper Than Cal State," may have shocked many across the country. But for California's families and students, it reflects the reality of millions who have struggled for years with the rising cost of higher education.

Dozens Of 'Occupy Education' Protesters Arrested In Sacramento

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 05.06.2012

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Highway Patrol officers arrested dozens of protesters who refused to leave the state Capitol Monday night after repea...

Jerry Brown's Public Safety Plan Gets Big Boost

Contra Costa Times | Posted 03.04.2012

ONTARIO - With Gov. Jerry Brown in attendance, District Attorney Michael A. Ramos announced Thursday that he supports the governor's upcoming ballot i...

The Great Battle of 2012 In California

Fermin Vasquez | Posted 05.01.2012

Fermin Vasquez

Corporations and the 1% with their unlimited cash coffers and influence over Sacramento politicians will seek to drown out the voices of the 99%. While they may have unlimited resources, we have unquenchable creativity and people power.

San Francisco School Board Approves Hundreds Of Teacher Layoffs

Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.29.2012

In a vote held on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Education approved layoffs for 485 teachers, administrators and other staff members employed by ...

California Plan To Scrap Kindergarten Program Spurs Protest

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 03.14.2012

SAN FRANCISCO — California educators and childcare advocates are protesting Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to scrap a new program for children who are ...

Joy Resmovits

Seven States Share $200 Million In Race To The Top

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.24.2012

Seven more states will receive $200 million in federal funds in the latest round of the Race to the Top competition, President Barack Obama's controve...

State Budget Cuts Slam Higher Education, Almost Spare K-12

| Kathryn Baron and John Fensterwald | Posted 02.13.2012

This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. Midyear budget cuts hit Cali...

Governor Asks Voters For Tax Hike To Support Education

AP | By JUDY LIN | Posted 02.04.2012

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown filed a ballot initiative on Monday asking California voters to increase taxes on themselves to generate more m...

Making A Deal For Education Funds: Tax Change Could Bring In Billions

| Kathryn Baron | Posted 01.23.2012

This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. A group of billionaires, old...

PHOTOS: California's Ten Most Educated Cities

| Posted 01.17.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Joanna Lin About 8 of 10 Palo Alto residents age 25 and older hold at least a bachelor...

Occupy Demonstrators Arrested After Protesting Massive Education Cuts

AP | BETH DUFF-BROWN and TERRY COLLINS | Posted 01.16.2012

SAN FRANCISCO — Police arrested a number of Occupy protesters and students Wednesday who stormed into a downtown San Francisco bank and shouted ...

More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.27.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.10.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

California School Spending Among Lowest In The Nation

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Joanna Lin | Posted 12.17.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, rel...

Brown Attacks Testing and Data as Measures of School Success

Louis Freedberg | Posted 12.10.2011

Louis Freedberg

Setting himself apart from other governors, Gov. Jerry Brown has launched an extraordinary broadside against the current national obsession with testing that continues to dominate school reform efforts.

A Christian Parent In Support Of The California FAIR Education Act

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 11.18.2011

Bruce Reyes-Chow

I simply reject the idea that homosexuality is a sin. I want to be sure that the voice of faith in this ongoing struggle is not surrendered to those who would condemn my LGBT brothers and sisters.

Pain, Tragedy and Learning From It

Robert Ross | Posted 11.16.2011

Robert Ross

It appears that, as a policy framework, we have left school officials with ineffective options with potentially harmful consequences for dealing with deeply troubled youth in a victim-bullying construct.

Our Shocking High School Drop Out Rates

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Agustin Armendariz | Posted 10.18.2011

Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Agustin Armendariz About a quarter of California counties have high school dropout rates of 20 perc...