EdSource
EdSource is a nonprofit journalism organization reporting on education issues in California. Largest education reporting team in the state.
EdSource.org
- Schools and community colleges will be shielded from the pain facing other state services because of the revised forecast of a $12 billion drop in state revenues that Newsom blamed on the “Trump slump." More: bit.ly/4jYUudT
- Schools will receive a 2.3% cost of living adjustment; cuts for CSU and UC will be less than they had expected under the governor’s plan.
- Los Angeles Unified School District officials pushed to oust the judge slated to hear a lawsuit by former Superintendent Austin Beutner alleging that millions of dollars intended for arts and music education were misused.
- The Legislative Jewish Caucus is swapping this bill with wider support for a contested alternative calling for creating standards for ethnic studies courses.
- State Bill 243, introduced by state Sen. Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, which is soon to be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee, would require chatbot operators to create safeguards to protect users from the addictive and isolating aspects of AI chatbots.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- California Head Start programs expect to receive $1.5 billion in federal funding for the 2025 fiscal year. That funds services for 73,476 children at 2,219 sites, according to an EdSource analysis of Head Start data.
- Volunteers from the Los Angeles County Office of Education and beyond helped students get back on track in the weeks right after Eaton fire.
- OPINION: Your tax dollars could soon lift a rainbow of religious educators — from Christian academies to pro-Palestinian classrooms — as the U.S. Supreme Court teeters on forcing states to aid sectarian schools.
- Andra Hoffman, the director of the Career Center at Glendale Community College and a board member for the Los Angeles Community College District, announced her candidacy for California superintendent of public instruction.
- Ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised 2025-26 budget release on Wednesday, budget analyst Rob Manwaring shares his insights.
- More than 100 volunteers helped provide “psychological first aid” to students in the Pasadena Unified School District following the Eaton fire.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- Up to 40 districts and charter schools can sign up to design their own high-impact tutoring.
- To help address teacher shortages, UC Riverside and the San Bernardino City Unified School District are teaming up to provide a free teacher residency program.
- Following a Sonoma County Superior Court ruling Friday, Sonoma State University announced it will cut faculty and academic programs, and eliminate its athletics program, as an effort to close a roughly $24 million budget deficit.
- Research shows the effectiveness of intensive, individualized instruction, known as high-impact tutoring. Unlike in other states, California districts still have money to pay for it.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- UCLA's medical school is accused in a federal class action lawsuit of using race as a factor in admissions despite state and federal bans on affirmative action.
- LISTEN: A mother shares the story of how these cuts affected her son, and reporters share what they learned.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- CalKIDS, the state program that deposits at least $500 into savings accounts for eligible students, has overcome some of the challenges affecting its awareness and access.
- Budgets are tight, enrollments are down. A facility whose research aims to protect the shoreline as seas rise may be cut.
- The Biden administration had granted extensions for expiring pandemic funds, but U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter on March 28, announcing that the department was rescinding that extension immediately.
- The State Board of Education today approved its fourth and final round of grants for to implement the community school model. There will be 458 more schools receiving $618 million, according to a media release from the California Department of Education.
- The likely closure shows the challenges facing some Cal State campuses amid tepid enrollment, anticipated state budget cuts and a maintenance backlog.
- Part of a statewide $278 million investment, new certified wellness coaches respond to high rates of emotional distress and substance use among youth in rural Northern California.
- Contra Costa County Office of Education concurs with the West Contra Costa Unified district that its budget should get a positive rating, meaning it can meet its financial obligations for the next three years.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- The lawsuit alleges that the department’s Office for Civil Rights has deserted its core function of investigating complaints from students and families who allege discrimination and harassment based on race, sex and disability.
- The president proposes status quo funding for Title I and for students with disabilities, and big cuts elsewhere for education.
- For arts students who lost so much as fires swept through the Los Angeles area in January, a new musical instrument is a big step back toward normalcy.
- OPINION: Millions of potential college-goers would benefit if California, like every other state, created a council to assist people in accessing programs that could help them realize their dreams. @calcompetes.bsky.social
- “It’s been brutal. We made it through Covid, and then there were the fires,” Karen Anderson, the arts and enrichment coordinator for the Pasadena Unified, said, choking up with emotion. “But we were able to leverage a lot of arts programming for well-being.
- The Trump administration has canceled roughly $56 million in research grants that support Bay Area universities’ research, including those from the National Institutes of Health aimed at promoting diversity in the sciences.
- UC San Diego’s Clean Slate Free Tattoo Removal Program began in 2016 — but has since grown due to both a higher demand for the services and a greater student interest. Now, the program is home to eight students, each of whom assists with up to 13 laser removal sessions.
- Many of the students at Altadena Arts Magnet and Eliot Arts Magnet lost not only their houses but also their school and the cherished musical instruments stored in the band room.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- James B. Milliken will take over the 10-campus UC system at a tumultuous time as it faces Trump administration threats to pull funding that could diminish the university’s research capacity, medical care and student services.
- Fresno Unified trustee Susan Wittrup and the Fresno Teacher Association argued that the district needed an outsider to transform a failing culture.
- Last month, the Trump administration froze about $790 million for Northwestern University while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the school.
- The federal government has slashed hundreds of millions in grants to support volunteers who provide an array of services in communities across California and the nation.
- OPINION: A volunteer in a federally funded program that works one-on-one with underprivileged kids who struggle to read gets a rude awakening when the funds are suddenly withdrawn by the Trump administration.
- The U.S. Department of Education tells West Contra Costa Unified that an already approved $4.2 million grant to place counseling interns in its schools will be drastically cut.
- The California Teachers Association testifies in support of the compromise.
- OPINION by @changethelausd.com: Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent Alberto Carvalho should do the right thing by students and let Proposition 28 funds for the arts be spent as intended.
- About 14,000 international students attend California’s community colleges, many of them in the Bay Area. Will they return under Trump?
- To make matters worse, 2 out of 3 students think their school is not doing enough to educate them about the nuts and bolts of personal finance, the survey shows.
- A $4 billion sex abuse settlement was approved Tuesday by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in a case that included more than 6,800 claims of children being abused while in the county’s juvenile facilities and foster homes.
- The Oakland teachers’ union reached an agreement with the school district Wednesday and called off a one-day strike previously planned for Thursday.
- In an executive order issued Monday, President Donald Trump vows to fight state laws that “provide in-state higher education tuition to aliens but not to out-of-state American citizens.”
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- There are at least two ongoing court cases involving allegations of sexual misconduct against former school resource officers in California.
- Assembly Bill 1454 will call for providing potentially all transitional kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers with training and textbooks that stress what’s known as structured literacy, starting with phonics in the early grades.
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by EdSource[Not loaded yet]
- The entire process, officials said, takes only a few minutes to apply. More details: bit.ly/4cSoJAk
- Many California school districts’ contracts for policing services do not prohibit officers from involvement in routine student disciplinary matters, despite the federal government’s guidance that administrators are responsible for handling those issues, an EdSource investigation found.
- California is co-leading a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s abrupt dismantling of AmeriCorps, the national service corps whose 6,150 members in the state in 2024 worked in food banks, homeless shelters, health clinics, youth centers, veterans’ facilities, and schools as tutors.
