A class-action lawsuit stemming from gender identity policies at an Escondido middle school could be heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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San Diego Unified School District Thursday announced it will close schools on Feb. 26 to honor a strike by the San Diego Educator Association on pay and statewide special education staffing issues. -
The move is intended to simplify California’s convoluted education governance, which policy analysts have said can be inefficient, redundant and sometimes at cross purposes. -
Faculty representation at Cal State is lagging far behind the growing number of Latino students. That burdens the small circles of Latino faculty who take on more mentorship tasks, many times in non-tenure positions and for lower pay. -
By basing funding on enrollment, not attendance numbers, schools would lose the incentive to get students to show up every day, a new report finds. -
California is one of 32 states that don’t require 5-year-olds to attend school. -
The Child Care and Development Fund sends money to states to help make child care more affordable for low-income families. Allegations of fraud in Minnesota have put the program under scrutiny. -
California State University last year launched a pilot program to attract more students to the university system and to steer some to campuses that have been struggling with enrollment declines. -
Amid soaring housing costs, the district wants to build affordable units on excess school property for employees. But there's disagreement over which proposal to choose. -
The ruling stems from a case filed by two teachers from Rincon Middle School in Escondido who sued over district policies requiring them to use pronouns or gender-specific names requested by students, while keeping that information private from others, including the students' parents. -
The law creates an array of measures to educate school staff, beef up reporting requirements and stop teachers credibly accused of abuse from getting jobs at other districts.
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