California ranks poorly on integrating technology into the classroom. Funding for technology has been a on-going challenge and district are having to look to local communities for money.
How well students and schools – from kindergarten through high school – succeed in mastering a curriculum that includes English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, and the social and natural sciences, strongly influences how well the students fare in higher education.
For some reason, the story is just getting around about a California Court Ruling from February that would have banned, or at least severely restricted homeschooling. By now however, the ruling has been reversed...
California IB school discusses exam taking trends
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Parents scramble to claim seats for their children in magnet, charter and private programs.
SAN DIEGO: State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell told a conference of educators yesterday that California must do more to close the achievement gap, a disparity in performance between students of different races and economic backgrounds.
Hacienda La Puente school district will supply computers to those in 5th, 7th and 9th grades. Teachers also will get training.
The city's new school board majority Tuesday pushed through its first wave of reform measures — and fast.
As a result, the Los Angeles Unified School District has new initiatives aimed at measuring student performance, paying employees on time, decreasing the dropout rate, helping English learners, building smaller schools, recruiting new employees, training principals and increasing parent involvement.
California's vibrant economy is in jeopardy because we aren't producing enough educated workers to meet the state's future needs, according to a recent study by the Public Policy Institute of California. The authors see only one solution: improving college attendance and graduation rates of Californians.