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California ready to launch $3 billion, multiyear transition to community schools

Districts can soon apply for funding to transform schools by expanding services for the "whole child" and extensively involving parents.

Flexible graduation requirements, summer programs, and tutoring may have kept students in caps and gowns.

More than 1 in 5 California students said they'd missed more than three days of school due to poor mental health during the pandemic.

An estimated 5% to 7% of students in the state do not enroll in kindergarten, according to the California Kindergarten Association.

CSU trustees indicate they'll remove standardized tests as admission requirement at March meeting.

Child care centers were already struggling prior to the omicron variant. Now a dire situation has gotten even worse.

The state has big plans to expand enrollment at the University of California and the Cal States.

Oakland Education Association members must still vote to approve the tentative agreement, and the district’s school board must ratify it.

California districts are using pathway programs to hire more Black teachers and taking other steps to retain them.

The raises approved range from 6 percent to 28 percent for each of the chancellors at the university's nine undergraduate campuses.