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Biden administration hikes pay for Head Start teachers to address workforce shortage
The Biden administration is hiking pay for educators in the early childhood program Head Start as part of an effort to retain current employees and attract new ones in the midst of a workforce shortage.
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School year already underway at some California districts as start dates keep creeping earlier
California school districts have moved away from the September return to school that was common in California and other states until the 1990s.
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Where Do Teachers Want To Teach? And Why?
Teacher shortages are an issue in many states, yet differences in policy result in dramatically different levels of student access to high-quality teachers across states.
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UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic
The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.
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Gov. Newsom signs bill to ban school district ‘forced outings’ of transgender students
The bill has been the subject of heated debate, with two lawmakers nearly having a physical confrontation over it during floor debate.
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New California Laws Require High School Classes on Drug Education, Financial Literacy and Ethnic Studies
Last week, California became the 26th state to require high school seniors to pass courses focused on finance literacy, coming behind recently added ethnic studies prerequisite and a health class requirement focused on the dangers of fentanyl use.
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Children's Educational Opportunity Act Explained (37 min)
Learn how California's children can have equitable access to quality education regardless of family income or race.
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Schools ban phones, but do the policies work?
Cities, states and school districts are passing sweeping bans on cellphones in schools, aiming to get kids to pay attention during class and socialize with their peers IRL.
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Let’s learn how well CA’s efforts to attract and keep teachers, works
OPINION- An important bill making its way through the Legislature could help California’s schools better recruit and retain teachers.
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Bill to give parents tax money for private school tuition passes Senate, giving Jeff Landry a big win
A bill to give parents tax dollars to pay for private school passed the Louisiana Senate on Thursday, handing Gov. Jeff Landry a major victory and thwarting critics — including some Republicans — who balked at the plan’s possibly massive cost and its potential to destabilize the state’s public schools.
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Democrats’ school-choice lies laid bare in Pennsylvania — with black voucher support above 90%
Surrounded by dozens of teachers-union officials on the steps of the Pennsylvania state Capitol this month, Democratic state Sen. Lindsey Williams excoriated a proposed K-12 education-voucher program.
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California high schoolers will soon need to take financial literacy class to graduate
California high schoolers will soon be required to take a financial literacy course to graduate. Gov. Newsom is expected to sign AB 2927 into law, his office said.
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Teachers report low pay, high levels of stress in annual survey
Teachers work more hours with a lower average base pay than other working Americans with similar vocations, according to a national Rand survey released June 18.
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What is the CEO Act
Parents choose the best school fit for their child using Prop 98 funds approved 35 years ago by voters. $17,000 is deposited into an ESA for education costs at K to 12th grade schools.
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Why every student in California should have access to ‘gifted’ classes
Academic success is as much dependent on how students feel about themselves as the letter grades that fill their transcripts. In fact, the two might be more correlated than they appear.
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