Education

As schools get the green light to reopen, the form their teaching will take will vary widely, sometimes even within the same district.

Pierce College theater student Sonny Lira was in the middle of rehearsing a script when his phone overheated and shut off, abruptly cutting off his performance. This wasn’t the first time technical difficulties interrupted Lira’s community college class. Since Wi-Fi wasn’t good enough at home, Lira often practiced his lines over Zoom in his car, […]

California’s cap on commercial property taxes benefits very few people and unfairly keeps resources from going into schools.

Looking at the challenges small businesses face, taxes from Prop. 15 would impede a return to work and slow economic growth.

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, October 1. Newsom signs high-profile bills As historic protests against police brutality and racism continue to sweep across California and the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed into law a spate of racial and criminal justice legislation and several police reform bills — though the most ambitious police proposals […]

The second draft of the Ethnic Studies curriculum only mentions Sikhs in the context of victimization following the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

School nurses across California have tried to get the state to again hire a statewide nurse consultant, especially as they grapple with COVID-19.

Almost every waiver application for in-person instruction for grades K-6 has been approved by the state for schools in counties deemed a high risk. But private schools comprise an overwhelming majority of those schools, creating an equity problem.

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, September 23. State audit slams UC The debate surrounding admissions to California’s most prestigious university system just got a lot more heated. Four University of California campuses “unfairly admitted” 64 applicants, including 22 “falsely designated” athletes, between the 2013-14 and 2018-19 school years based on their connections to wealthy donors […]

Ethnic studies recognizes the racial injustices that have occurred so that people can be empowered to work toward the American ideal of fair opportunity.