Education

A majority of California’s college students experience food insecurity. Some campuses are stepping up with innovative free meal programs.

At least 24 University of California and California State University campuses lost training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of approximately $12,000 or more.

Faced with increasing financial aid fraud, the board of California’s community colleges is considering ways to charge students an application fee and tighten its identity verification process. Students are pushing back.

California's ESL courses gained 30,000 students over the past six years. As the Trump administration revokes student visas and escalates immigration raids, that growth is at risk.

Many school districts require students to undergo a lengthy process if they want to wear tribal or other cultural regalia at graduation. A new bill would eliminate those obstacles.

The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

Only 14 school districts and county offices of education have begun billing for behavioral health services under the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative Fee Schedule Program, according to state health officials.

Head Start staff and advocates launched a nationwide campaign to save the program, which Trump eliminated in his budget draft.

Despite efforts to increase the number of mental health providers, many students say the training requirements are onerous and costly.

The original proposal would have mandated phonics instruction in K-12 classrooms. The latest version makes that optional.