Education

Schools must prepare to do more with less as the fall term approaches. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget proposal includes steep cuts to California school districts, many of whom were already spending beyond their means.

While student financial aid remains largely intact, California's public colleges and universities not only lose what the governor proposed in January, but can expect 10% less in the coming year. Brace for online classes and a debate about raising tuition.

Undergraduates who enrolled at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo this year paid $5,742 in tuition — less than many of their peers at public universities nationwide, one reason a California State University education is often lauded as a path to upward mobility for the state’s low-income students. But they also had to pony up more […]

Parker Tenove remembers looking at his track and field schedule for the 2020 spring season, marveling at the opportunity to run at competitions in California cities from Santa Monica to Bakersfield.  He’d turned down scholarship offers from universities near his Kansas hometown to attend community college in Torrance, California, hoping the proximity to the state’s […]

Community college foundations are giving extra aid now to undocumented and low-income students, whose needs are unmet by federal pandemic relief programs.

A proposal to strengthen school spending transparency is among the few education bills that have survived a legislative session upended by the pandemic.

Grading policies at California public schools have changed as a result of the coronavirus. How they've changed depends on the district.

Officials at Butte College gathered one fall Wednesday in 2018 for a tabletop exercise in disaster planning. As California’s fire seasons had become more deadly, utilities were threatening to shut off power as a way of preventing downed lines from igniting blazes. Other catastrophes, such as school shootings, were also on officials’ minds. Administrators at […]

Lee este artículo en español. Before the coronavirus, Katie Self’s days followed a predictable routine.  At 5:00 a.m., she woke up her three children and got them ready for school.  By 7:00 a.m., Self was hitting the books at Fresno City College, where she was studying to be a radiology technician. Classes and tutoring wrapped up […]

California could reopen for an earlier school year, perhaps as soon as late July, to make up for lost learning time. Some retailers and manufacturers may be able to reopen in a matter of weeks — provided they take safety precautions.