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The Orange County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Dec. 6 to pay $22 million and transfer ...

Pivot Learning releases the District Readiness Index, a database for measuring how well California districts have met the conditions needed to make sustainable change.

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly last week infavor of the principle of state and local control in education. Thevote highlights an important education policy issue that will be atthe heart of the debate on whether Congress should reauthorize NoChild Left Behind.

The Administration of President Donald Trump has supported the worthwhile goal of advancing school choice for families across the country. The Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (A-PLUS) proposal, which would restore state and local control of education, is one vehicle for advancing this long-overdue reform.

This article about the Wednesday, Nov. 9 school board meeting has been updated to include written public comments, submitted as of Wednesday afternoon, at the end of this article. Several

Housing growth drops 20 percent, on average, in cities making the sort of switch proposed by Portland’s Commissioner Mapps.

The students’ presentation centered on five issues: school safety, socioeconomic equity, teacher misconduct, political literacy and peer counseling.

Student representatives from across California made a series of policy and curriculum recommendations during a presentation to the State Board of Education on Wednesday morning.

The California School Dashboard masks the needs of English learners, leading to low expectations for these students and resulting in many districts not planning for their support and success.

A closer look at candidates running for the Sacramento City Unified School District Board in the November 2022 general election.