Protecting Jewish students or chilling speech? Inside California’s ‘hardest’ fight over antisemitism
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American Arab group is challenging the new law, arguing it violates their free speech rights.
Education
Alameda County students outperform state averages in English, math and science
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Also, the county’s ELA and math scores are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.Arts & Entertainment
Robert Reich’s ‘The Last Class’: A big hit with the home school on teaching and democracy
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The film follows Reich through the journey of his last semester of his 40-year teaching career, most of it spent at UC Berkeley.Bay Area
Despite education funding formula reforms, inequality growing in some wealthy counties
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Declining enrollment’s perverse impact: for LCFF districts, lower enrollment means less state funding. But for basic aid districts, lower enrollment means more revenue per student.Education
Newsom signs first-in-nation law to ban ultraprocessed food in school lunches
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Officials will decide which additives, dyes, and other forms of processing don’t belong in school meals and K-12 cafeterias.Oakland
Public invited to school budget meetings as Oakland Unified faces $4M monthly shortfall
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The district faced a similar crisis in 2003 when it descended into fiscal insolvency and was placed under state receivership for 6 years.Bay Area
UC Berkeley taps Victoria Coleman to lead new Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames
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Construction on the $2 billion, 36-acre Berkeley Space Center at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley is expected to start in 2026.Education
UCLA reclaims hundreds of research grants that Trump cut off over alleged antisemitism
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Even more funding is at stake going forward for UC campuses.Education
California colleges lost millions in humanities purge. Their projects might not recover
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Terminated projects covered a wide variety of topics, from digitizing the history of Catherine the Great at the University of Southern California to the creation of a minor in human rights and border studies at San Diego State University.Education
Ethnic studies was supposed to start in California schools. What happened?
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The state never allotted money for the course, which would have been required for high school graduation starting in 2030.Education
