This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Brigitta Hunter started her teaching career, she had $20,000 in student loans and zero income – even though she was working nearly full time in the classroom. “We lived on my husband’s pathetic little paycheck. I don’t know how we did it,”...

This article was originally published on CalMatters  This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate students for doctoral degrees in the sciences. At least 24 University of California and California State University campuses lost training grants that provided their students with annual stipends...

This story was originally published on EdSurge. The number of students experiencing homelessness who were enrolled in California’s TK-12 public schools has jumped over 9% for yet another year, even as overall enrollment rates continue on a downward trend. Nearly 20,000 more homeless students were enrolled by the first Wednesday in October, known as Census Day,...

Three moms on the L.A. Unified School Board have assembled a resolution to improve benefits for pregnant teachers and other district employees who don’t qualify for California’s state-paid family leave. The board passed the resolution unanimously last month — and now the district is putting together a preliminary plan, with a deadline of February, 2026...

This story was originally published at LAist In 2021, the city of Los Angeles took some of its COVID-19 relief money and put it toward a big plan: expanding and running its own childcare centers. The City Council approved $20 million dollars of American Rescue Plan Act federal funds to renovate and reopen 10 licensed...

Success For All, a teaching approach using the science of reading, could expand to 150 more schools in the next three years with the help of $13.5 million in grants from an anonymous donor. Success For All, developed in the late 1980s by two Johns Hopkins University professors, relies heavily on phonics and group learning,...

Once upon a time, college was the dream destination and a guiding goal for high school seniors in Los Angeles and beyond.  But nowadays things are more complicated, said Christina Sanchez, a school and college counselor at Triumph Charter High School in the San Fernando Valley. Sanchez, who has worked as a counselor for more...

This article was originally published by LAist Enrollment at Los Angeles Unified School District’s preschools is up more than 10% since December. It’s a significant jump for the public preschool system, which has struggled to fill its classrooms since the COVID-19 pandemic and the expansion of transitional kindergarten for 4-year-olds. The additions bring enrollment up from 70%...

This story was originally published on CalMatters.org. They speak Farsi, Cantonese, Spanish and at least two dozen other languages. Some earned master’s degrees in their home countries, while others never finished middle school. At California’s community colleges, more than 290,000 students take free, non-credit English as a Second Language classes. As immigrants, many of these...

Dozens of highly-rated Los Angeles Unified schools in wealthy neighborhoods have empty seats — but most students can’t access them, according to a new analysis of state enrollment data.    “Crisis in the School House,” a 36-page report published by Available To All, a nonpartisan nonprofit led by Tim DeRoche, an author and parent who lives...