Twice each year, school districts must verify their financial health. Seven districts face immediate peril, and 32 others put themselves on a warning list.| EdSource
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced California is on track to reduce chronic absenteeism by half in five years.| EdSource
Unable to consider race in admissions, the University of California has tried and failed to increase diversity through race-neutral policies. Eliminating standardized test scores from admissions could be the latest effort to fail.| EdSource
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho should do the right thing by students and let Proposition 28 funds for the arts be spent as intended.| EdSource
The groundbreaking initiative has run into significant hurdles during its rollout, including a teacher shortage, widespread confusion about spending rules and pointed disagreements on how to interpret the law.| EdSource
Student plaintiffs and the author of Proposition 28 join forces, alleging Los Angeles Unified improperly spent new arts money on existing teaching positions, not to add new educators.| EdSource
The executive director of Create CA is a passionate advocate for arts education, driven by her own experiences of poverty and immigration, and committed to ensuring that all students have equal access to the arts.| EdSource
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Catherine Lhamon, executive director of UC Berkeley Law’sf Edley Center on Law and Democracy and former assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education under the Biden administration, said her department was always pleading with Congress for more staff to handle the increasing caseloads. “There is no universe in which we would have needed fewer people,” said Lhamon.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
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About 1 in 3 students in California’s K-12 schools were not fluent in English when they started school.| EdSource
$6.2 billion recently withheld from schools and $12 billion in proposed education cuts are separate from the bill signed last week.| EdSource
After 23 years of teaching and writing, Larry Ferlazzo plans to volunteer in a juvenile hall and help accompany immigrants to asylum hearings.| EdSource
Donald Trump's federal budget proposal did not include cuts to Head Start, but supporters of the early education program are concerned its funding could be cut during budget negotiations.| EdSource
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Schools across California report that parents and students have been detained or deported. In the aftermath, teachers are trying to help.| EdSource
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The tradition of heading back to school after Labor Day is disappearing. A survey by EdSource of the state's 30 largest districts, serving one-third of the state's 6 million students, shows that only seven will start school after the holiday.| EdSource