Education

A bill that would have allowed homeless students to park overnight on campus is dead for the year, after amendments that its author said stigmatized the students it was meant to help.

A long, deep-pocketed fight over California's public school system appears to have reached a detente, with stricter credentialing for charter school teachers, rules that make it easier for districts to reject new charter campuses and a 2-year moratorium on new online charter schools.

As universities struggle to diversify their faculties, the youngest UC campus is preparing many low-income, first-generation students of color for academic careers.

Education officials hit pause on a high school ethnic studies plan after receiving thousands of suggestions and complaints. 

The Varsity Blues college scandal has drawn attention to UC "admissions by exception." Some are athletes, some homeschoolers, some out-of-staters — and at most campuses, they're cloaked in secrecy. 

California has released a draft of the new ethnic studies curriculum for high schools, and critics are asking: Does it lean too far left?

Financially, at least, California's 5-year-old school finance overhaul is working for disadvantaged students. But a PPIC study still finds that high-need schools are still too reliant on novice teachers. And in better-off districts, not enough is being done for poorer kids.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has ambitious plans to improve California's early childhood education, but experts say he's forgetting a key: preschool teacher salaries.

Heather Williams knew as a kid that she wanted to be a piano teacher. She earned her music degree with a piano emphasis from Brigham Young University and spent decades honing her craft. Today she not only runs her own academy near Sacramento, offering private lessons with a special certification in the Suzuki Method of […]

A bill to allow student athletes to earn compensation for the use of their names and images could provide the most benefit to women, walk-on players and those playing in less high-profile sports and schools, its author says.