Former State Board of Education President Michael Kirst argues that California's recent passage of AB 181 offers a chance to fix long-standing governance issues by balancing reduced administrative reg...

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Bay Area counties have higher completion rates for UC and CSU admissions requirements than the rest of California. Here’s where every public high school stands.

Experts say California isn't studying its own transitional kindergarten program, despite research that has shown a public preschool program doesn’t guarantee better outcomes.

UCLA Education Department Chair is one of 19 distinguished education scholars and leaders elected to academy membership in 2026 in […]

Lisa Roebbelen said the best years of her life were spent learning to care for the dead. “The combination of science, and art, and anatomy, compassion, and ethics and service … having it all together ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes unifying the policymaking State Board of Education with the California Department of Education, a move he said would better align education efforts.

A new survey of public high school principals across the U.S. found widespread, heightened distress among students from immigrant families amid ICE raids.

In American education, the scars of the “accountability wars” still run deep. More than two decades after the federal No Child Left Behind Act established punitive, high-profile accountability require...

President Donald Trump has revived a longstanding Republican Party call to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. While the Cabinet-level department needs an act of Congress to be eliminated, the T...

Chief among many recommendations, the research center PACE urges putting the governor, not the state schools superintendent, in charge of the California Department of Education.

The Trump administration's decision to move some programs to other federal agencies has been met with criticism from California state officials and education advocates who argue that it will harm vuln...

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth about the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how t...

The federal government shutdown has caused California students and families to face a more complicated financial aid process, delaying access to federal awards and requiring additional time to complet...