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How much are California’s public universities paying athletes? CalMatters is suing to find out
BY ADAM ECHELMAN, CAL MATTERS (This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.) CalMatters filed a lawsuit against UCLA Monday after nearly a year of attempts to obtain information about how the university pays its student athletes. Last fall, CalMatters submitted records requests to 16 University of California and California State University campuses, seeking information about payments…
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Californians voted to spend $1 billion on K-12 arts. Why are schools returning the money?
BY CAROLYN JONES (REPUBLISHED FROM CALMATTERS – Sign up for their newsletters) Three years after voters passed an ambitious arts education funding measure, California’s K-12 schools were supposed to be awash in dance, music, theater and fine arts. But some schools are returning their arts money to the state, saying the rules on how to spend it…
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The California classroom collapse hits the middle class
What the recent NAEP scores show is that, despite Gavin Newsom’s claims, California public education is failing students from all demographics—Black, Brown, White, poor and non-poor. Until politicians and educators are held accountable for this failure, expect more of the same in the future, which will be a tragedy for the state’s children. By Lance…
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Some California schools get three times more funding than others. Here’s why
BY CAROLYN JONES (Republished from Cal Matters – calmatters.org) At Pinedale Elementary in Fresno, there’s almost no classroom aides, after-school tutors or behavioral counselors. Literacy activities and parent workshops are scarce. Field trips? Almost non-existent. The school survives on one of the lowest per-pupil expenditures in the state: $16,700 a year, nearly $5,000 below the state…
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California pulled the plug on new school air conditioners, leaving $200 million unspent
BY ALEJANDRA REYES-VELARDE (Republished from CalMatters – Sign up for their newsletters) In 2020, California gave schools an enticing opportunity: A ratepayer-funded grant program would let them assess the condition of their heating and cooling systems, then pay for upgrades based on that review. But in 2024, the California Energy Commission, which administers the California Schools Healthy…
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Why confide in AI? Teens open up on why they trust chatbots
Why turn to artificial intelligence rather than a friend? For young people, it often comes down to not having to worry about what a peer or a parent thinks. That’s one takeaway from a new report by San Francisco-based Hopelab and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which surveyed 30 people between 14 and 22 and…
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Half of Students Now Get A’s, but Actual Achievement Is Declining
Your child’s report card may be sending the wrong signal. Grades and GPAs increasingly reflect institutional incentives rather than academic achievement. Hannah Frankman Hood The Epoch Times (epochtimes.com) Commentary As recently as 1995, a child’s straight-A report card meant something specific. Still relatively rare, the feat indicated that a child had worked hard and was…
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California’s schools are emptying out. Experts say it’s only going to get worse.
Researchers say shrinking classrooms are a sign of something much larger By Madilynne Medina, News Reporter The first sign was the empty desks that slowly started to appear. Then there were fewer kindergartners in San Francisco. Shrinking graduating classes in San Jose. An Oakland elementary school that lost so many students it was forced to close. Across California, signs like these have proliferated as…
