Alameda County students outperform state averages in English, math and science By Kiley Russell | Bay City News | October 16, 2025 Also, the county’s ELA and math scores are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.
Bay Area UC Berkeley taps Victoria Coleman to lead new Berkeley Space Center at NASA Ames By Kiley Russell | Bay City News | October 3, 2025 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 By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters | September 30, 2025 Even more funding is at stake going forward for UC campuses.
Education California colleges lost millions in humanities purge. Their projects might not recover By Lylah Schmedel-Permanna | CalMatters | September 25, 2025 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? By Carolyn Jones | CalMatters | September 18, 2025 The state never allotted money for the course, which would have been required for high school graduation starting in 2030.
Education More California high school seniors applied for college financial aid this year than last By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters | September 15, 2025 About 340,000 California students completed a financial aid application, up about 11% over last year.
commentary The Oakland Public Education Fund needs your help By Maya Guzdar | September 15, 2025 Maya Guzdar (PHS ‘18) invites Piedmonters to support OUSD by attending the Oakland Grown Student Art & Music Festival on October 25.
California Where’s the chemistry? Nation’s Report Card shows waning 8th-grade interest in science By Emma Gallegos | EdSource | September 14, 2025 Science uses hands-on and experiential learning, which was hard to replicate during the years of the pandemic and remote learning.
budget OUSD’s budget worse off than once thought; cash reserve plummets as deficits deepen By Kiley Russell | Bay City News | September 13, 2025 The unrestricted general fund, showing a 53% decrease from just one year ago, signals difficult choices ahead.
California Californians asked to track monarch butterfly sightings to help save declining population By Sarah Stierch, Bay City News | September 9, 2025 The 29th annual Western Monarch Count starts in October.
Education California changed the way it teaches science. But test scores remain low By Carolyn Jones | CalMatters | September 5, 2025 In 2019 only 30% of students met the standard on the state exam. Last year, the number had inched up to only 30.7%.