This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, projects or homework assignments. Without notice to schools or librarians, the Legislature last week canceled...

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter Before Michaella Huck graduated from high school in 2018, she struggled with depression and anxiety and didn’t know where to get help. She’d hear stories of students who died on “suicide hill” in her Los Angeles neighborhood of San Pedro.  It took a trusted...

As educators, we spend a lot of time talking about the things we think are important. Attendance. Graduation rates. Test scores. Yes, those things matter. But before any of them improve, students have to believe that school is a place where they belong.  This year, a student told me: “I gave up on myself because...

This story was originally published on EdSource. The first openly transgender person elected to a California school board is sitting in a booth at Bartel’s Giant Burger — a 1970s-era roadside joint a few miles from downtown Redding in Shasta County.  Mountains rise to the west and north. Big rigs rumbling up Interstate 5 can...

This story was originally published on EdSource. California’s audacious goal of having half of all K-12 students enrolled in bilingual education programs by 2030 has encountered one big stumbling block — there aren’t enough qualified bilingual teachers. To help remedy that, a $10 million grant tucked in the state budget aims to help school districts...

Thousands of foreign-born teachers leading classrooms throughout the United States now find their jobs and status in jeopardy because of the Trump administration’s campaign to constrict all forms of immigration. Educators hired in recent years on H-1B visas for hard-to-fill K-12 vacancies are waiting more than 10 months for renewals, forcing many from their schools...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. At Pinedale Elementary in Fresno, there’s almost no classroom aides, after-school tutors or behavioral counselors. Literacy activities and parent workshops are scarce. Field trips? Almost non-existent. The school survives on one of the lowest per-pupil expenditures in the state: $16,700 a year, nearly...

This story was originally published on LAist. The Los Angeles Unified Board voted unanimously to appoint Andres Chait, a longtime district administrator, as superintendent days after his predecessor resigned.   “This board’s decision reflects the confidence in Mr. Chait’s leadership, his decades of service to Los Angeles Unified, and his demonstrated ability to guide the district...

This story was originally published on EdSource. With Alberto Carvalho’s resignation now official, Los Angeles Unified faces a new challenge: finding a superintendent to lead the nation’s second-largest school district through mounting budget deficits, declining enrollment and political uncertainty.   Acting Superintendent Andrés Chait will continue leading the district in the interim, but board members have...

This story was originally published on LAist. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned as leader of the Los Angeles Unified School District, four months after the FBI searched his home and office. “Placing students first has always guided my work,” Carvalho wrote in his resignation letter, provided to LAist by his attorney. “Because I believe our...