Education

We covered how Californians were affected by the workings — or non-workings — of their state government. Here are highlights:

When students of color have teachers of color, they learn more, finish high school at higher rates, and are more likely to go to college. But the number of teachers of color in California isn’t keeping pace with the diversity of its student body.

Campus organizers across California are gearing up for the state’s early primary in March, hoping for a repeat of the 2018 elections, when student voter turnout nationwide more than doubled. They’re trying creative tactics to get their peers registered and to the polls, helped along by two new California laws.

Small rural schools have long had a hard time competing for state school bond money. But that may change with the state bond on the ballot in March.

From within and without, the University of California is under pressure to stop requiring the high stakes test in admissions. Here's what could happen next.

Some 800,000 kids have lost as much as three weeks of class time this autumn. Public schools cherish local control in California, but they're asking the state to step in.

While Congress bickers over long-delayed reforms and other states cut spending, California is trying to confront the stubborn problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide, but seem seldom to be solved.

Updated Nov. 19, 2019 California voters have resoundingly approved tens of billions of dollars in state school construction bonds over the last two decades. But a new survey suggests that voters have yet to similarly warm up to the latest and heftiest proposal to come before them: a $15 billion state bond for public schools, […]

The cost of a college degree is soaring in California, where public universities were once free. What happened? And what can be done for students and families?

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $10 million plan to improve Fresno’s public schools during his visit to the city on Friday. Newsom delivered the keynote speech during the second day of the eighth annual California Economic Summit, which brought together over 800 civic and business leaders in downtown Fresno. “I care deeply about this damn Valley […]