Education

Environment

School closures from California wildfires this week have kept more than a million kids home

Due to school closures from the California wildfires, more than one in six students in the state are staying home as the state continues to burn.

By Ricardo Cano • November 15, 2018

Education

UC urges students to file DACA renewals as appeals court rules against Trump

California notched another legal victory Thursday in its bid to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, as a federal appeals court agreed with the state’s attorney general and the University of California that the Trump administration cannot dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The U.S. Court of Appeals […]

By Felicia Mello • November 8, 2018

Elections

How Gov-Elect Newsom aims to take on California’s 7 biggest issues

Gavin Newsom first ran for governor in 2010, an effort he abandoned and then relaunched in 2015 with the long, long campaign that crescendoed tonight. Now that California voters have given the 51-year-old Democrat the job he has sought for eight years, he is about to discover that winning was the easy part. Governing is […]

By CalMatters Staff • November 7, 2018

Economy

As Gavin Newsom becomes governor, how he could shape California’s future—issue by issue

Now that California voters have given Gavin Newsom the job he has sought for eight years, he is about to discover that winning was the easy part. Here's his plans for California's most pressing issues.

By CalMatters Staff • November 6, 2018

Elections

Video: Newsom and Cox reveal how they would run California differently than Gov. Brown

See Gavin Newsom and John Cox explain how they would run California differently than Gov. Brown—and make decisions on climate change policies, housing, schools and crime. Plus: book recommendations and hardest thing they've done.

By Byrhonda Lyons • October 12, 2018

Education

Are California’s low test scores a cry for the state to take more responsibility?

California's test scores raise questions about whether Gov. Jerry Brown’s two signature education initiatives—the revamped education funding formula that provides far more money for each disadvantaged student, and his doctrine of subsidiarity, or local control—can survive when he's gone.

By Karin Klein • October 8, 2018

Newsletters

School test scores, #MeToo laws and CURES

California's school test scores, how the CURES opioid database happened, Jerry Brown's #MeToo bills, Orange County political money and teen pregnancy.

By Dan Morain • October 3, 2018

Education

California’s test scores are so stagnant, it could take a generation to close the achievement gap

California public school test scores are improving, but so slowly that it could take decades to close the achievement gap.

By Ricardo Cano • October 2, 2018

Elections

Also on the November ballot? Lots and lots of school bonds

One of the biggest items on the November ballot will be mostly invisible to most voters—100 or more local proposals to sell bonds for school construction projects that, if passed, could total more than $12 billion in local borrowing in coming years.

By Ricardo Cano • September 30, 2018

Newsletters

Universal preschool, Hollister Ranch access

California's achievement gap needs universal preschool, Hollister Ranch and Martin's Beach brace for battle and de Leon eyes San Francisco's water supply.

By Dan Morain • September 19, 2018