education

Having a union-dominated school board has not stemmed the tide of red ink in the Sacramento City Unified district.

In a last-minute push, lawmakers tried to pass a proposal that would have extended CalSHAPE, a school air conditioning program.

It’s been a four-year battle to allow students without legal status to work at California’s public colleges. The Legislature passed another bill to allow this. Newsom vetoed it last time. What will he do now?

Campus tours, help with college applications and academic counseling: These are just a few forms of college outreach and assistance lost to California students when the U.S. Department of Education canceled over $40 million in funding across the country for more than 100 TRIO programs. The cuts hit rural students the hardest.

UCLA’s new major fuses technological tools for statistical analysis, coding, 3D mapping and data visualization with traditional humanities in subjects like history, literature and global cultures.

Universities have refused to share information about the money they’re giving student athletes. CalMatters is suing UCLA and UC Berkeley for the data and sharing what we know so far, including the contracts universities sign with students and details about some of these payments.

Proposition 3 doesn't raise taxes on anyone, a cafeteria manager argues. It avoids a tax cut for the top 2% of earners by sustaining rates voters first backed in 2012 to aid schools.

The federal aid agency updated its fraud protections, delaying financial aid notifications to students by several weeks.

Proposition 28, which voters overwhelmingly approved in 2022, sets aside about $1 billion a year for the arts in California public schools.

Through the Farm to School program, schools get grant money to obtain fresh, local food; send students on field trips to farms; and send cafeteria workers to culinary academies.