Molly Gibbs

New school data raises concerns among California education experts about pandemic recovery

Production of the Charles Dickens classic is a readers' theater staged at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 in the Liberty Center.

The state report highlighted two main points of concern: micromanagement from the board and the board’s failure to follow their own policies.

If signed by Newsom, Assemblymember Laura Friedman’s bill would require classified and certificated applicants at California State University and public community colleges to disclose if they had p…

California colleges urge students to fill out financial aid applications as deadline looms

Report: California spent $4 billion on ‘ghost’ students no longer attending school in their districts

San Jose State to offer one of the first early education teaching credential programs

California’s new bill prohibits “forced outing” policies in school districts, which required notifying parents when students used a different name or pronoun than what’s on …

In addition to existing curriculum requirements like English, math and science, the class of 2031 will have to pass a personal finance class, an ethnic studies course and a health class discussing …

California school enrollment dropped by nearly 15,000 students for the 2023-24 school year, significantly less than the Department of Finance’s initial projection of 41,000 students.

In a statement shared with the Bay Area News Group, the district’s superintendent, Nancy Albarrán, said the district always welcomes “fact-based” and “constructive” feedback, but called the report …

While the state offers an ethnic studies model curriculum – which took 5 years and 4 drafts to approve – districts are not required to implement it, and the battle over curriculum has landed some d…

Educators were outraged at Newsom’s previously proposed plan, calling the cuts to school funding “unconstitutional” and warning it could threaten California’s school funding system and leave …

Educators from the charter school said Settelmayer’s lack of transparency and respect for the students and families affected by the closure led them to issue the vote of no confidence at Tuesday’s …

The new policy will go into effect for all 6th through 12th-grade classes in Dublin next year. Some parents and teachers worry the changes will encourage students to slack off and leave them unprep…

Former Carmel High School Vice Principal Debra Puente recently pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of failing to report child abuse.

Ann Jaramillo is one of 9,623 retired educators who have had their benefits reduced since 2016, and one of many who are now paying back tens of thousands of dollars in “overpayment debt” to CalSTRS…