With millions of ballots still to be counted in California, Chino Valley Unified school board President Sonja Shaw has a clear lead in the state superintendent of public instruction primary with 24.9% of the vote, followed by San Diego Unified school board President Richard Barrera with 18.9% of the vote. None of the other candidates...

While reform around reading instruction continues to gain momentum, about a third of teachers are using  “discredited” methods to teach kids how to read and aren’t fully committed to the science of reading, a new report found. In a survey of more than 1,200 K-3 educators in the fall of 2025, researchers at the Fordham...

Ten-year-old Bella Perez, from Manhattan, has had the same fear for months: She worries that her mother, who hails from the Dominican Republic, will be detained and deported, despite having a green card. “I’m scared because if someone takes her away, what am I supposed to do about it?” the fifth grader said. “I’ve been...

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. State leaders’ recent attention to early literacy has led to funding and new programs to help close the literacy achievement gap. But math? The state hasn’t focused on it. And that neglect shows. State and national scores reflect many of California’s systemic weaknesses,...

This story was originally published on LAist. When Eduardo Mira started his senior year at Ánimo Pat Brown Charter High School, he thought politics was a “fool’s game.” “All I saw from the media was just negativity and division and, like, political violence,” Mira said. “Nothing good, but now I do see the beauty in...

This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. The primary for the state’s top K-12 schools job is in less than a month, but judging from the polls, it’s debatable whether anyone is paying attention. A whopping 32% of voters are undecided with just a few weeks...

This story was originally published on EdSource. When Tania Rivera’s son with autism ran out of school and into the street, no one noticed he was gone. Not the teacher or any school official. Rivera said she found out from another parent who saw him.  “It wasn’t safe for him, and I was in shock....

This article was co-published with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy and power. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter, which focuses on the complicated expansion of our democracy in the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary. Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very different...

This story was originally published by Edsource The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking to focus on teacher-led, high-dosage tutoring to meet the requirements of a settlement that requires LAUSD to provide 10 million hours of tutoring to 100,000 students over three years.  Shaw et al. v. LAUSD et al. was filed during the...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hudson Idov wasn’t excited about any of his college options — that is, until his Los Angeles house burned down in the Palisades Fire his senior year of high school. Less than a week after graduation, he and one of his classmates enrolled...