The coronavirus pandemic has pushed California and the nation into uncharted waters, especially with the impact on our schools.

California schools are some of the nation’s poorest funded, with the state ranked 39th in the country in education spending. Recent...

Issues of equity, such as addressing the student achievement gap and resource distribution, are areas that most involved in education can support. However, defining equity, let alone achieving it, can be extremely challenging. In 2018-2019, the Center on Education Policy...

There are 725,000 K-12 students in California who receive special education services -- and a new report says that the state has a long way to go to adequately meet the needs of these kids. With us to break down...

Special education in California should be overhauled to focus on the individual needs of students, with better training for teachers, more streamlined services and improved screening for the youngest children, according to a compilation of reports released today. Those were...

Special education in California should be overhauled to focus on the individual needs of students, with better training for teachers, more streamlined services and improved screening for the youngest children, according to a compilation of reports released today.

Susanna Cooper and Michal Kurlaender, UC Davis: Allowing high school students to take college-level courses while they are still in high school is good for students, good for high schools, and good for community colleges, which are the primary vehicle...

When then-Governor Jerry Brown signed the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) into law in 2013, California’s leaders were hopeful that this legislation would set high expectations for flexibility, transparency, and equity within school districts. In a new report, “English Language...

More than 20 years ago, Proposition 227 was passed in California, requiring that all public schools teach curriculum in English and providing only a year of special instruction to English learner students in the hope of quickly producing assimilated and...

The debate over whether to stop using the SAT in admissions at the sprawling and nationally influential University of California is approaching a turning point. Anti-testing groups are expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday demanding that the university drop the...

The debate over whether to stop using the SAT in admissions at the sprawling and nationally influential University of California is approaching a turning point. Anti-testing groups have filed a lawsuit demanding that the university drop the requirement for students...

The UC system has formed a task force in order to eliminate the traditionally required SAT/ACT standardized test scores in its admissions process. UC Berkeley Chancellor cited “inequity” in the current requirement of standardized testing.

Measuring both student proficiency, whether students are on grade level, and student growth from year to year matters, particularly in places like Oakland where thousands of students enter school each year behind grade level. Despite the importance of growth, California...

California’s largest school district on Wednesday publicly released new data measuring how its students progress from year to year. Los Angeles Unified, which serves more than 600,000 students, published what are known as academic growth data as part of a...

Los Angeles Unified on Wednesday is expected to become the latest California school district to publicly share data showing how its students improve year to year, a move the district expects will provide deeper insights into how individual schools are...

Salvador Martinez, a fourth-year applied mathematics student and member of Beyond the Score, said the group lobbied for removing standardized testing from admission policy at the Policy Analysis for California Education conference at UC Berkeley this past weekend.

As faculty deliberate, UC Berkeley chancellor calls for ending the use of SAT and ACT. Pressures are mounting on the University of California to end its 50 year old practice of requiring freshman applicants to take the SAT or ACT...

Top leaders at the University of California say they support dropping the SAT and ACT exams from admission requirement. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ, along with the UC system’s chief academic officer, Provost Michael Brown, said Friday that research...

Top leaders at the University of California say they support dropping the SAT and ACT exams from admission requirement. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ, along with the UC system's chief academic officer, Provost Michael Brown, said Friday that research...

Today, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) released an extensive report outlining specific actions taken by district leaders to improve California students’ college readiness, access, and success. The report, “Strengthening the Road to College: California’s College Readiness Standards and Lessons...

Imagine Worldwide and the Airbel Impact Lab at the International Rescue Committee are excited to announce a groundbreaking new partnership to fill a huge gap in learning for children globally. More than 600 million children in developing countries fall short...

Los Angeles Unified leaders were right to abandon plans for a single rating system for schools, which would have been a giant step backwards for school performance transparency. Those same decision makers should double down by making Los Angeles school...