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The four-bill plan calls for a "comprehensive statewide strategy with clear goals, measurable benchmarks and annual performance targets."

Some of the supporters of the phonics curriculum California adopted last year are now urging statewide math screening for young students.

A nonprofit created a reader-friendly explainer of California school district ratings, a decade after the state created its confusing data dashboard.

While the state borrows $5.6 billion from education, districts throughout the state are struggling to balance their own budgets this year.

Community schools are becoming neighborhood hubs by prioritizing academics, youth and family services, mental health and restorative justice.

One reason: Higher-income, high-achieving kids often aren't in the testing pool. They attend private schools or their parents opt them out of state tests.

California lawmakers only spent just a few minutes discussing in public the hundreds of bills they introduce. But these 10 measures had hours of intense debate in 2025.

During the pandemic, federal money flooded into state and local coffers. Once that funding ended, government spending didn't adjust downward.

A century-old program pays for schools, roads and other services in 39 California counties.

Experts say there are too many confusing layers in state and local education governance. The governor should hire the state's schools chief.