Tag: Education

You are being excessed. Those three little words were spoken by my principal at the first staff meeting, my first day back at work, just...

California's State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurmond, held a news conference in Sacramento on Friday to address President-elect Donald Trump's plans to abolish...

School board elections have been a hot topic in California recently, with tensions rising between conservative and progressive candidates over educational policies regarding gender...

Californians recently voted in favor of a $10 billion initiative to support construction projects for schools and community colleges. This victory for Proposition 2...

The re-election of Donald Trump is expected to lead to a period of conflict and tension between the White House and California's political and...

Alejandra Lopez, a political science student at Cal Poly Pomona, was deeply distressed to see Donald Trump potentially winning a second term in office...

As the nation focuses on the presidential elections, two local school board races in Oakland and Berkeley are making history for a different reason....

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have different views on education and the role of the federal government in shaping it. The election outcome today...

Last year, my seventh-grade math class embarked on a unique project that involved designing and creating piñatas with specific volume and surface area constraints....

After years of neglect and underfunding, California's schools are facing a crisis. Many students are attending schools with unsafe conditions, outdated buildings, and inadequate...

San Francisco is in a critical situation regarding its schools and needs to avoid a state takeover at all costs. Education veteran Carl A....

Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds has been promoted as a way to improve declining enrollment and provide universal preschool. However, some districts are facing...

In Paula Merrigan's transitional kindergarten class, the students build a strong bond with her because of her warmth. She greets them with a big...

The Los Angeles Unified School District recently held a press conference to celebrate the academic achievements of its students on the 2024 California Smarter...

I am in the middle of teaching ninth graders how to draw inferences to support an interpretation of Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter.”...

Over the past ten years, Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers have invested significant amounts of state funding into various grants and initiatives aimed...