educación

Groups of students walk through a plaza in front of a main building on the University Of California Los Angeles campus.

Educación más alta

Judge blocks Trump administration’s cuts to key federal research funds

The funds, known as “indirect costs,” help universities maintain expensive labs and other infrastructure. Trump’s administration seeks to cut that funding by roughly half the current amount.

Por

Mikhail Zinshteyn

• febrero 10, 2025

People walking along the sidewalk on a college campus near white buildings and palm trees planted in the grass along the sidewalks.

Educación

The cost of private colleges is high, yet many low-income students still choose them

Some students work multiple jobs and give up extracurricular activities to supplement their financial aid. Many say it’s worth it.

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Katelyn hace

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Mikhail Zinshteyn

• enero 29, 2025

A person wearing a white face mask and with their back facing the camera looks to their right side as they stand in middle of charred remains and burnt building at a school. Two brick walls remain standing nearby.

Educación K-12

A beloved Altadena school, destroyed in the Eaton fire, looks to the future

School officials are scrambling to find an alternate site for its campus while trying to support families, nearly half of whom lost their homes in the fire.

Por

Carolina Jones

• enero 27, 2025

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On-the-job training helps California intern see herself as a future transit CEO

Viviana Mendoza used to hope to be like her father, a bus attendant who cleans LA Metro buses. As an intern in the Metro CEO’s office, she now dreams of running the transit agency.

Por

Denise Amós

• enero 22, 2025

Small flames and smoke rise from a smoldering playground area of an elementary school. The plastic of the playground can be seen melting and burned down trees and a destroyed building in the background.

Educación K-12

Will new bond funds be enough to rebuild LA schools — and all of California’s other crumbling schools?

Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of rebuilding in LA may eat up much of the money voters approved in November for school repairs statewide.

Por

Carolina Jones

• enero 22, 2025

A firefighter wearing full protective gear, including a helmet and respirator, bends down to operate a power saw on a wet asphalt surface. In the background, other firefighters work near a white car surrounded by smoke, holding hoses and wearing similar gear. The scene takes place outdoors under a clear sky, with utility poles and trees visible in the distance.

Educación

Fact check: Did Gavin Newsom really help create 625,000 new job opportunities in California?

In 2018, Newsom promised to add 500,000 new apprenticeships in the decade after taking office. The state is making progress, but how much depends on the definition of “apprenticeship.”

Por

Adam Echelman

• enero 21, 2025

Photo illustration of an open laptop showing a blurred browser window; an enlarged sign of a red circle with a white line is obscuring the browser window and sticking out of the laptop screen

Educación K-12

Online censorship in schools is ‘more pervasive’ than expected, new data shows

Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from information online.

Por

Tara García Mathewson

• enero 16, 2025

Una maestra juega un juego con los estudiantes antes de una asamblea el primer día de clases en la escuela primaria Loma Vista en Salinas el 8 de agosto de 2023. Foto de Semantha Norris, CalMatters

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How California could benefit if Trump actually dissolved the Education Department

Much of the attachment to the U.S. Department of Education is misplaced, argues a California policy advocate and former state superintendent candidate.

By Lance Christensen • enero 16, 2025