Education

In a colorful classroom, two children dressed in playful outfits stand beside an adult who is seated and holding an open picture book titled Quick as a Cricket. The children look at the book with interest as the adult reads to them. Behind them, classroom decorations include a poster showing the life cycle of a frog, tanks with small animals or classroom pets, and various educational materials on the walls. In the foreground, blurred wooden play items sit on a table.

K-12 Education

Considering TK for your child? Take a peek inside one ideal classroom scenario

This fall at least 200,000 California students are expected to enroll in transitional kindergarten, which serves as a bridge between preschool and kindergarten.

By

Carolyn Jones

• August 18, 2025

A person stands indoors pointing to a section of a large academic poster titled “Expectation to Guarantee: Bounding Welfare in Randomized Auctions.” The poster contains mathematical formulas, graphs, and text. The individual wears a dark shirt and is explaining or presenting the material. In the background, a framed black-and-white photograph hangs on the wall above a white woven basket.

Higher Education

California invested millions pushing these careers for women. The results are disappointing

Women continue to lag behind men in certain science, technology, engineering and math programs.

By

Adam Echelman

• August 15, 2025

A person, wearing a black mask and sunglasses holds a cardboard sign that says "FUND SCIENCE!" on it while they march next to other protesters

Education

Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore hundreds of UCLA research grants

The administration terminated the grants over alleged DEI violations. University of California attorneys argued the suspensions were arbitrary and capricious.

By

Mikhail Zinshteyn

• August 12, 2025

Education

Free AI training comes to California colleges — but at what cost?

Google, Microsoft, Adobe and IBM will offer AI-related tools to California's schools and universities in an effort to prepare the state’s students for a changing economy.

By

Adam Echelman

• August 11, 2025

A person wearing glasses, a dark blue button-up shirt, and black pants leans against an office chair in a workspace, looking slightly to the side. Behind them is a desk with a large computer monitor, a coffee mug, framed photos, and various papers and decorations, including posters and newspaper clippings pinned to the wall.

Education

Fearing deportation, international students go silent at California’s universities

After hundreds of international students lost their status this spring, then regained it following lawsuits, the uncertainty of it happening again has created fear. Some students say they’ve changed the routes they take on campus, the topics they research, and what they post on social media.

By

Emewodesh Eshete

• August 8, 2025

Illustration of a woman wearing an prison uniform on a laptop labeled "C.D.C.R."; she's surrounded by a pile of textbooks, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation seal, a search input, a browser window with a lock on it, a crossed-out Wifi symbol and a silhouette of a person in a graduation uniform holding up a diploma

Higher Education

California inmates can take college classes, but often with no internet and limited tech

Even in California, where prison access to technology and research resources is better than average, students regularly face dead ends.

By

Tara García Mathewson

• August 7, 2025

A hand holding a pencil points to the number 73 on a colorful classroom poster displaying numbers from 1 to 100. The chart is decorated with stars and bordered in green and purple, with "100 One Hundred 100" written at the bottom. The person’s hand wears a scrunchie on the wrist.

K-12 Education

Students without legal status have the right to attend public school. Will Trump try to change that?

Since last year about a half-dozen states have attempted to pass laws that would allow schools to charge tuition to noncitizens. None passed, but advocates said they plan to keep trying.

By

Carolyn Jones

• August 6, 2025

The UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters

Higher Education

UC researchers are pushing back on Trump’s UCLA grant suspensions. Here’s how

UC researchers claim a judge’s previous order barred the National Science Foundation from suspending UCLA’s grants.

By

Mikhail Zinshteyn

• August 5, 2025

Three people run on a tree-lined sidewalk at a college campus on a sunny day. UCLA banners can be seen on lamp posts the right side of the sidewalk.

Higher Education

UCLA research grants suspended after Trump administration faulted campus for antisemitism

The suspensions affect hundreds of UCLA grants and come days after Trump’s Department of Justice concluded in an investigation that “Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA were subjected to severe” harassment.

By

Mikhail Zinshteyn

• July 31, 2025

People wearing black cap and gowns with red, green and white colored sashes stand in front of chairs during a graduation ceremony in font of attendees in an arena.

Higher Education

This group has one of California’s highest graduation rates. So why are they skipping college?

Inland Empire high school students have a higher graduation rate than their peers in California but are below average when it comes to enrolling in college.

By

Deborah Brennan

• July 30, 2025