Along with affecting students’ possible areas of studies, the pandemic has also increased anxiety about finances and overall wellbeing as high students plan for their future. Analyzed survey research by the California Education Lab at the University of California, Davis...

Sacramento City Unified School District introduced a new district “monitor-liaison” last week to assist in investigations regarding recent racial incidents at two campuses. Superintendent Jorge Aguilar says that the district remains committed to building stronger relational trust among its Black...

In today’s data-rich, technology-enhanced world, math learning opportunities are central to the path to higher education and 21st century careers. Math classes must serve as stepping stones rather than stopping points on students’ journeys. Ensuring that happens means, policies, practices...

Policy-relevant research is essential to understanding the complex ways these practices, policies, and norms systematically and differentially shape students’ experience of school—and how they can be changed. But this type of scholarship is not incentivized within academia, and few formal...

With no signs of the omicron variant slowing down anytime soon, some parents are opting to have their child enrolled in independent studies, with the Sacramento City Unified School District seeing a major uptick in families choosing that option. Right...

Recent research lays bare an enormous toll facing California families: Child care has become so costly that in most of the state it’s surpassed housing as the largest monthly expense for households with young children. Even families who earn enough...

The Sacramento City Unified School District has received nearly 150,000 N95 masks for its teachers, staff and volunteers amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in Northern California. The shipment of masks from the state arrived Friday, according to a release...

The week, Gov. Gavin Newsom built on last year’s record state budget with a 2022-23 spending plan that tops it. Schools from transitional kindergarten to high school and community colleges would receive $102 billion plus $16 billion in a windfall...

Covid, wildfires, economic uncertainty and persistent racial injustices have upended nearly every aspect of children’s lives in California, according to one of the first comprehensive surveys of young people’s overall well-being since the pandemic began. The 2022 Children Now Report Card...