April 19, 2018
(Calif.) State lawmakers are once again considering legislation that would subject charter schools and their governing boards to the same open meeting and disclosure laws as traditional school districts.
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April 19, 2018
(Texas) More than half of respondents in a statewide survey do not believe that Texas public schools receive equitable funding to carry out their mandates, although by a wider margin, participants said schools were doing a good job of giving students access to advanced curriculum.
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April 18, 2018
(N.Y.) Teachers across the country would receive training and resources to help students better understand the Holocaust–including what led to it and the consequences–under a bill introduced by a pair of U.S. Representatives from New York.
April 17, 2018
(Ark.) School grades that include multiple academic and non-academic measure were released in Arkansas for the first time last week, and the results are overwhelmingly average.
April 17, 2018
(Calif.) An ambitious plan to expand eligibility for transitional kindergarten to all four-year-olds statewide won cautious backing last week from a key legislative panel.
January 30, 2017
(Calif.) The recent alarm over the potential spread of fake news has prompted two California lawmakers to call for media literacy education in schools, as evidence shows that many children and some adults are largely unable to distinguish between fact and fiction online.
December 08, 2016
(Calif.) With the state’s fiscal outlook as good as it has been perhaps in a decade, and now with Democrats holding a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, some within the education community might have thought a conversation over the adequacy of school funding would finally happen.
January 04, 2017
(Calif.) The California State Board of Education struggled at their November meeting to find a just route in arbitrating a small school district’s request to waive–for a fourth time–professional certification requirements of an educational interpreter.
November 21, 2016
(N.M.) As schools across the country report increases in bullying and harassment based on immigration status, Santa Fe Public Schools has announced a Student Support Helpline where families can access resources.
