This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As California intensifies its fight with the Trump Administration, the race for the state’s top schools job is becoming ever more crowded. Today, former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon formally entered the race to succeed Tony Thurmond as State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He...

The nation’s largest charter system has dealt a crushing legal blow to its foes – but challenges remain for the once-revolutionary movement. After a series of recent losses, the charter sector in Los Angeles claimed a clear win in June when a California State Supreme Court judge struck down a Los Angeles Unified policy banning charters...

This story was originally published on EdSource. The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board overreached in declaring hundreds of schools off-limits from sharing their facilities with charter schools, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled.  Judge Stephen Goorvitch wrote in a June 27 decision that the trustees of the state’s largest school district...

Where did stars like Billie Eilish get a head start on the music industry — while still in high school? Grammy Camp! The Grammy Museum earlier this month hosted nearly 200 high school students from across the country to participate in its week-long Grammy Camp. The national program ran in three cities this year: Los...

Updated July 28 Los Angeles Unified superintendent Alberto Carvalho struck a defiant tone in his back-to-school address Tuesday, pitting the district against federal authorities while praising its resilience from recent wildfires and the pandemic. Three weeks before half a million L.A. Unified students return to classes, Carvalho used the annual speech to preview new initiatives...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California after-school and summer programs will get some of their funding back after the federal government said on Friday that it would restore grants it had previously withheld. But the money is contingent on states complying with Civil Rights laws – a cudgel...

The parents come at all hours of the day and night. A nurse drops off her kids before starting a 12-hour day at the hospital. A father picks his kids up in the dead of night, after his warehouse shift ends at 1 a.m. Another mom sometimes needs childcare at 4 a.m. so she can...

This was originally published by CalMatters. In Kern County, the first rule in counting homeless students is not saying “homeless.” Instead, school staff use phrases like “struggling with stable housing” or “families in transition.” The approach seems to have worked: More families are sharing their housing status with their children’s schools, which means more students...

This story was originally published on The 19th. On July 4, Nory Sontay Ramos stepped off a flight from San Antonio into a country she hardly recognized: Guatemala. The summer wasn’t supposed to start this way. The 17-year-old had plans. In early June, she wrapped up 11th grade on a high note, having made the...

This story was originally published on EdSource. Just days after the California Department of Education and California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) leaders refused to ban transgender athletes from high school sports, the Trump administration sued the state’s Education Department, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Education on June 25 said that the state Education...