K-12 Education

School board members cited a slew of reasons for not running for reelection, including distress over budget cuts and labor strife, immigration raids affecting schools and youth and an overall hostile political climate.

For more than a century the state’s K-12 system has been fragmented between the state superintendent of public instruction, State Board of Education, governor’s office, the Legislature, local school boards and a dozen other entities.

Voters first passed the tax in 2012, then renewed it in 2016. Now, its supporters are asking voters to make it permanent before it expires in 2031.

K-12 student test scores rose slightly last year, while enrollment numbers dropped.

A new math test will assess basic math skills for all K-2 students to help identify those who are struggling.

Some school officials were confused about how they could and could not spend their arts education money. A new law provides more guidance.

A 2021 state law mandates schools that own military-grade weapons must disclose them annually. However, a CalMatters investigation has found that the nine K-12 districts in California with these weapons have not been routinely reporting their inventories, renewing their policies, or holding public forums, as required by the law.

California prohibits tech companies from selling student data, but loopholes exist. A new law creates stricter rules for how companies gather and sell student data.

Students behind in their math skills would get tutoring so they can catch up.

The proposed changes aim to allay schools’ apprehension about spending their arts money granted through an initiative voters passed in 2022.