Education

The state’s shift to a funding system that gave school districts control has left big gaps in student performance and questions over who’s accountable for what, according to a new report.

This year's winner in NPR's College Podcast Challenge is a letter to a grandparent that grapples with health issues including dementia. It's the story of a family learning to talk about hard things.

For their final project a team of San Diego State engineering students designed and built an adaptive pedal for a disabled veteran.

The information could help decide where to place resources like shelters, handwashing stations, and street medicine teams.

The San Diego County Health and Safety Act would pay for infrastructure projects related to cross-border pollution.

Asylum seekers going to college in California can pay much higher nonresident tuition and are often excluded from financial aid, at great cost to them and their families as immigration cases spend years in limbo.

Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake in San Diego County Board of Education Districts 3 and 5 races.

A new state task force will examine what it would take to build and pay for a hybrid university campus — and how it could be governed.

California State University’s $17 million contract with ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is up for renewal. Some students and faculty say equal access to AI is important for preparing students for the workforce. Others say the implementation of AI tools has been confusing and opens the door to cheating. Some faculty have banned AI from their classes altogether and even started a petition to end the contract deal.

Four states have recently passed legislation to limit teaching and assessments via screens for students. So has the United States' second-largest school district.