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While the fiscal outlook for California public schools remains positive, declining enrollment and pension costs will continue to pose significant challenges for many districts statewide.

There is a new reality for transborder, or transfronterizo, students— young people who cross the border daily to go to school and sometimes work. The

The upcoming CA Supreme Court case involving Cal Fire pension benefits raises important retirement and legal issues. With regard to retirement, the first question is

While schools have had some success in reducing chronic absenteeism, expulsion and dropout rates throughout the state, more targeted efforts will be needed to improve

Officials in the fire-ravaged Paradise Unified School District announced recently they’ve secured three elementary schools that will house K-5 students through the end of the

In September 2018, Governor Jerry Brown signed three new bills addressing public agency response to disasters and emergencies including school violence. You can read a

At least 40 percent of CA districts and charter schools have rates of chronic absence in grades K-8 that are high or very high based

Despite a sharp boost in funding in recent years, the overall record of public education in the Golden State is disappointing. Recent test scores show

There’s no way to know how many University of California eligible students don’t go to those universities, or even how many don’t apply at all.

With their grip on state politics stronger than ever, Sacramento Democrats are champing at the bit to chase after their base’s dream of so-called “universal

The rapid rollout of a hugely ambitious plan to reduce elementary school class sizes in California over two decades ago should serve as a cautionary

CA public employee unions can celebrate a little good news in the months since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling that stripped them

Potentially half of the local educational agencies in California will be identified as failing to meet chronic absenteeism standards under a performance matrix set for

Four local educational agencies are looking for state permission to increase how much they can borrow. Under state law, LEAs are prohibited from having a

Los Angeles schools chief Austin Beutner is working on a plan to radically reshape the nation’s second-largest school district by shrinking the central bureaucracy and