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The Oakland Unified School District has done so little to stave off its enormous looming budget deficit that the Alameda County Office of Education can

Workers at California’s universities are frustrated. Days after the UC leaders reached a contract with its lecturers in mid-November, two more of its unions authorized

A decision four years ago to install special lockdown locks on classroom doors at Oxford High School likely saved lives during the shooting spree last

The California Court of Appeal has held that school districts must exclude maintenance and operations costs from their calculations when determining the pro rata fees

Similar to many of the other programs that were included in the 2021 Budget Act, districts and charter schools that receive ELO-P funds must develop

From SSC posted December 2, 2021 Starting January 1, 2022, the state minimum wage increases once again—this time to $15 per hour for employers with

A California Court of Appeal has held that a school district and its employees are not responsible for the safety of a student when the

By SSC’s Michelle McKay Underwood In its December 2021 forecast, the UCLA Anderson School of Management captured the moment the whole country is in—uncertain about

By Gary L. Jones, EH&A Senior Associate School systems persistently struggle to accurately collect and maintain high quality data. If school leaders viewed data like

CA’s smallest school districts face big hurdles in planning for next school year. Some small districts don’t have enough computers or reliable internet service in

School funding in California has long adhered to the guiding principle that the money follows the student. But under this year’s education budget, lawmakers and

Sending a child off to kindergarten has a deep emotional resonance in the lives of many parents. They fill social media with pictures of their

Dissatisfied with the uneven quality of distance learning among school districts after they closed in March, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature established minimum requirements

We’re smack in the middle of July. Coronavirus cases, as of today, are rising in 39 states. Schools face intense—and divisive—pressure to say how they

Tensions consumed the upper echelon of district leadership last year and culminated in the assistant superintendent of business services agreeing to resign in exchange for