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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday demanded that UCLA clarify how its Pac-12 exit for the Big Ten will profit all of its student-athletes and honor its

Weeks after UCLA announced its intention to move to the Big Ten, Newsom says the campus must say how doing so will benefit students and preserve its relationship with UC Berkeley.

California Gov. Newsom wants UCLA to explain how its Pac-12 exit will benefit all student-athletes and honor its partnership with UC Berkeley, now bracing for a big financial hit.

The team behind the Cradle-to-Career data system will begin hosting public discussions to shape the dashboards and tools. The system will be California's first statewide data system that tracks a students' progress and outcomes through the education system.

As college costs rise and students wonder whether they can afford their dream schools, California is pushing to help with more loan-free financial aid.

Print Continue to article content Republicans seized this week on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s requirement that all schoolchildren wear masks. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo Newsom faces backlash over masks in California schools Students will return to classrooms just as recall ballots land in mailboxes across the state, and Newsom has to strike the right tone with parents and voters after a tumultuous stretch marked by some of the nations longest school closures. The governor has built momentum this ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday the creation of one online spot where school districts can find technical information and resources, and parents can find answers and lodge concerns on reopening schools during the pandemic. It includes a website that will launch later this month that will list Covid outbreaks by school and district and permit parents to file complaints online and through a hotline telephone if their schools are not following safety protocols. It also includes a single 51-pa...

Update at 1 p.m. to correct the estimated costs that Los Angeles Unified will spend on Covid testing. Updated at 3:30 to note that L.A. Unified is suing Newsom over the plan. After a meeting Monday with top advisers of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, superintendents of two of the largest school districts in California said nothing had changed: Their districts won’t pursue $2 billion in state funding in return for committing by Feb. 1 to send younger students back to school when Covid in...

Update: The final report will be sent to Gov. Newsom on Dec. 18. One of the few notable areas where Gov. Gavin Newsom departed from his predecessor Gov. Jerry Brown on entering office was his support for establishing a longitudinal data system linking information from preschool into the workplace. Despite the fact that most other states had created that system in some form, for years Brown resisted entreaties from researchers and advocates to allocate the funds to set one up. But it was such...