Education
California
Threats, stress and politics pushing school superintendents out the door
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Turnover this year appears to be particularly high, and a new group of less experienced school district leaders are replacing the outgoing administrators.California
Cal State faculty plans to strike as officials reject a 12% salary increase
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Cal State officials offered a 5% increase for each of the next three years, although those raises are not guaranteed. The union plans to strike at four campuses.Bay Area
Pay for Cal State presidents has grown at nearly twice the rate as pay for lecturers
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Faculty are preparing to strike in early December and the system is raising tuition.Education
Study: unconventional teaching jobs are more satisfying
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Teachers also expressed concern about the sustainability of their unconventional roles.Books
Pride flag gone. Library books under review. The new era of backlash politics in California
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Lacking power at the state level, conservatives are leaning into local governance as a form of protest against liberal California.News
Report: 1.3M teachers, 100,000 professors now under ‘educational gag orders’
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So far this year, 110 bills seeking to restrict discussion of race, U.S. history and LGBTQ people in schools and colleges have been introduced in state legislatures.Education
Six hidden (and not-so-hidden) factors driving America’s student absenteeism crisis
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In response, one suburban school got tough: 5 “mental health days” per year and a ban on participating in extracurriculars if a student is not in class that day.COVID-19
Community college enrollment plunged amid COVID-19 — why that’s now turning around
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Students over the age of 50 are driving the trend.analysis
