Five years after Proposition 13 took away money from California schools, Senate Bill 813 brought it back—but with strings attached. The bill, hailed as the largest educational reform measure in California's history, was passed in 1983. Its provisions were backed...

Minority students will be a majority of California’s public school enrollment by 1990, ten years earlier than expected, educational researchers predict. Between 1970 and 1980 the proportion of minority students grew from 15.6% to 42.9%, said the report by Policy...

California's public schools are progressing under the state's 2-year-old reform program despite teacher shortages and deteriorating buildings, an independent research group reported Wednesday. The university-based group, Policy Analysis for California Education, said in a preliminary report that more high...

More California high school students are taking tougher courses like math and science, according to a research report. Between 1982–83 and 1984–85, the number of math and science courses and the number of students taking them both increased 20 percent...

California's teacher training colleges are turning out poorly trained teachers who are "rubber stamped" by the state's certifying process and sent into the classrooms ill prepared to serve the millions of children put under their care, according to a new...