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Education

Long-standing achievement differences on standardized tests play a role, but bias toward Black students by white teachers does, too.

The UC workforce has a churn problem as about a quarter of the system’s 6,000 lecturers don’t return annually.

California schools aren’t required to provide meals that adhere to students’ religious or cultural beliefs.

Formerly incarcerated students were less than half as likely to return to jail after they wrote to their teachers.

Thousands of California school staff and students didn’t attend school Monday in protest of a state order requiring students to be vaccinated.

Statewide, enrollment fell by almost 3 percent in 2020-21.

Rural districts in particular could be impacted by the mandate.

From EdSource, an annotated roundup of education bills that the governor signed and those he passed on.

TK will essentially become California’s version of a universal preschool program, available to all 4-year-olds regardless of income.

The governor has signed 770 new California laws and vetoed 66. Here’s a look at what’s coming in the Golden State.