California
According to a report released by the California Budget & Policy Center, most homeless people in California are childless adults that disproportionately come from marginalized communities…
Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing for major reform of California’s mental health system, this time by overhauling the way counties spend mental health dollars and placing a bond measure before voters to build more psychiatric beds…
President Biden declared that a major disaster exists in the State of California and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, and mudslides beginning on February 21, 2023, and continuing…
California public school enrollment continued to decline this year even as full-time in-person instruction had returned and as preschool expansion offset losses…
Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday, 4/5, that Emeryville, Fresno, Needles, Rancho Cordova, Redwood City, Riverside, Salinas, Stockton, and Ukiah, and the counties of San Diego and Yuba have been named “prohousing” communities, a designation that makes them eligible for additional state funds to fast track housing developments…
President and Administration
The Supreme Court hasn’t ruled yet on whether President Biden can move forward with his student debt relief plan…
The Biden administration this week will hold three public listening sessions to discuss its next round of higher education rulemaking slated for this fall…
Under draft rules released by the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday, 4/6, school districts that ban transgender athletes in school sports risk losing millions of dollars in federal education funds…
Groundbreaking new research is showing that, during the two decades prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a steep and steady reduction in serious forms of violence, including bullying and weapon-related behaviors, across California’s middle and high school campuses…
America’s pandemic response may be winding down, but the number of children being treated for mental health disorders isn’t slowing…
Education
According to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, college transfer enrollment declined by 7.5 percentage points in fall 2022 and 14.5 percentage points since fall 2020 — the equivalent of 37,600 and 78,500 students respectively…
Lawmakers across the country are moving to make it easier to kick disruptive students out of school, a get-tough turn toward stricter discipline that reflects mounting fears about school violence and disorder…
Research has shown that a surprisingly large number of parents are aware of and considering social-emotional factors when it comes to making school choices…
According to a new report, community college baccalaureate programs in California can help more Black and Latino students earn bachelor’s degrees in a state that badly needs a more educated workforce…