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.
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.
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%.
Bay Area People’s Park student housing remains on schedule as UC Berkeley enrollment grows By Megan Lam | EdSource | September 1, 2025 The project, which aims to ease the student housing crunch, will provide more than 1,100 beds for undergraduates.
berkeley UC Berkeley receives ‘hostile campus’ label over suppression of anti-genocide speech By Audrey Tomlin | Bay City News | August 28, 2025 A 2024 CAIR-California report found that 85% of Muslim students at UC Berkeley experienced Islamophobic harassment.
Education Immigration agents signed up to recruit at a California university. Then the protests started By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters | August 28, 2025 The Cal Poly campus postponed a job fair event over concerns about Customs and Border Protection’s participation.