John Fensterwald | Piedmont Exedra

Student math scores touch off ‘five-alarm fire’ in California

The pandemic compounded the challenge of teaching math at grade level when many California students may be three or four years behind.

California school districts have thousands of properties on which to build apartments for teachers struggling to pay rent, a new report details.

Students can earn a Seal of Civic Engagement if they learn how to research issues and effect change by getting involved in community issues.

Districts can soon apply for funding to transform schools by expanding services for the "whole child" and extensively involving parents.

Newsom projects $24 billion in new spending on K-12 education plus adding nearly $1 billion for arts and music.

Tony Thurmond acknowledges frustration and promises to free up $187 million, much of it for urban parochial schools.

Delays at the state level have impacted urban Catholic schools in particular.

A supermajority in the Legislature would rein in a new governor, who'd also face long odds on the big prize: selling a voucher initiative next year.

Ninth grade course engaged and motivated students who hadn't shown prior success in school.

State leaders recognize crisis some districts face but don't backtrack from applying independent study to students sidelined by delta variant.