This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Four days after a 15-year-old with a disability was mistakenly detained and handcuffed by immigration agents outside of Arleta High School, the first day of the new school year in the Los Angeles Unified School District seemed normal. Students at Arleta High walked through the...

This story was originally published at EdSource It is hard to imagine a more “homegrown” school superintendent than Cheryl Cotton, who in June assumed the top post in the West Contra Costa Unified School District on the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay.  Increasingly, school boards have turned to candidates like Cotton, who are...

This story was originally published at LAist The number of child care workers who struggle to meet basic needs like food, healthcare and housing is on the rise, according to a new report. The Stanford Center on Early Childhood’s RAPID project started surveying child care providers around the country back in 2021, when about 40% of...

An education technology company that built an app for Los Angeles students to receive telehealth services during the school day has fallen victim to a data breach that puts students’ sensitive information in jeopardy, a disclosure to state regulators reveals. The company, Kokomo Solutions, also hosts an anonymous tip line where Los Angeles community members...

Only about half of the kindergarteners in Orange County, California, are developmentally ready for kindergarten, while about 80% have the emotional maturity and social competence necessary for school, according to the Early Development Index (EDI), an assessment of social-emotional development, cognitive development, language and communication skills and physical health. The Early Childhood Friendly City initiative...

The night before school, Adriana Abich always gets nervous. Nervous there won’t be enough school supplies for new students, or that classrooms won’t be quite ready.  But this year is different.  This year, the CEO of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is worried immigration agents with guns are coming for her kids. “There are so many...

One California teacher used an artificial intelligence tutor to support students below grade level. Another used AI to create lesson plans. A third tried the technology for sorting students into small groups. AI has the potential to address many fundamental barriers in education — if it’s implemented effectively. Headlines tout its rapid adoption and a...

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...

These are lean times in public education. Public school enrollment is declining nationwide and in California. Major federal funding cuts to public education are looming, and California’s own budget woes mean that it will not be able to backfill these shortages.  Lean times should call for intentionality in allocating scarce resources and conservation of the...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the court that struck down Los Angeles Unified’s policy banning charters from using classrooms. The judge was from the California State Superior Court. The article also incorrectly identified the institution where Yvette King-Berg works. She is the executive director of Youth Policy Institute Charter Schools. The nation’s...