To better support California students, change funding formula
There is no doubt: Kids are missing a lot of school. Nationally, over a quarter of public school students were chronically absent last year — up from about 15% before …
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Parents must end teachers unions’ stranglehold on education
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court took a historic step toward ending injustice with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Politicians once stood in the …
School choice is not the ‘civil rights issue of our time’
In 1958, three years after the Brown v. Board of Education order to integrate American schools, the Texas legislature debated a plan that would offer vouchers to parents who opposed …
Gilroy middle schoolers teach each other in unique method
In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like the floor …
California charter school battles intensify as finances squeeze
California’s public schools, with nearly 6 million students, are feeling the financial impacts of a quintuple whammy. Billions of federal dollars to cushion the impacts of COVID-19 have been exhausted, school closures …
Teachers at San Jose charter announce no-confidence vote in CEO amid plan to close high school
Unionized teachers from Downtown College Prep, a charter school system in San Jose, issued a vote of no confidence in CEO Pete Settelmayer after he announced budget cuts and a …
San Jose charter school closes due to declining enrollment and $1.3 million budget deficit
More than 200 students at DCP Alum Rock High School, a small charter school in San Jose, will have to transfer when the campus closes this summer — a victim …
570 California schools targeted for low vaccination rates
By Diana Lambert, Daniel J. Willis and Yuxuan Xie | EdSource More than 500 California public schools are being audited by the state because they reported that more than 10% …