Education

The way the Cal State system presents graduation rates obscures how the system is failing its Black students.

State lawmakers are giving public colleges and universities $1.4 billion this year to build or renovate affordable dorms for students. The 25 projects across California range in size and price but are expected to make space for 7,300 students.

This story is part of a series on the experiences of students attending three different California school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic, in spring 2022. It was produced through a partnership with CatchLight Local and CalMatters.  Anthony Pritchett, a senior at Nevada Union High School, sits on the Nevada Joint Union High School District’s board […]

This story is part of a series on the experiences of students attending three different California school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic, in spring 2022. It was produced through a partnership with CatchLight Local and CalMatters.  At Buttonwillow Elementary School, Lorena Hernandez ended the school year ready to graduate eighth grade and start high school, […]

This story is part of a series on the experiences of students attending three different California school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic, in spring 2022. It was produced through a partnership with CatchLight Local, CalMatters and the Salinas Californian. It’s 6 a.m. and soft light hits the home in a serene Soledad neighborhood. The sound […]

As part of the “Student Reflections: Looking Back on School during COVID” series, students in each community were given disposable cameras to document their own experiences. They photographed their friends, classrooms, changing mask mandates, recess, after school activities and senior prom.  On what it was like for her students to take pictures for the project, […]

More than half of parenting college students drop out before attaining a degree. For these families, graduating during a pandemic was a special victory. Their experiences shed light on how California could better support the growing ranks of student parents.

UC Riverside and key allies in the Legislature have fought for additional funding for the school separate from what it already gets from the UC system. Now it’s up to the governor as to whether the state should subsidize a less popular campus.

Samuel Merritt University and Touro University California's new anti-burnout programs are part of a federally funded effort to improve retention in a health care industry rocked by the pandemic.

A CalMatters investigation found that schools had wildly different approaches to stimulus spending — from laptops to shade structures to an ice cream truck. No centralized database exists to show the public exactly where the money went.