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Buffeted by change, California charter schools continue to grow amid scrutiny
Top Takeaways Charter schools’ enrollment has grown slowly since the pandemic, while overall public school enrollment has declined significantly. Most […]
July 14, 2025
How my twin helped me excel in high school and college
In my junior year of high school, I walked up to the batter’s box at Oracle Park — the same […]
July 14, 2025
Erratic results, high costs doomed this districtwide student improvement program
Top Takeaways Fresno Unified and its teachers union reached an agreement in mid-June to attempt to mitigate the impacts of […]
July 11, 2025
Storytelling for Scientists and the Researchers’ Writing Podcast with Dr. Anna Clemens
What does storytelling have to do with writing scientific articles? It helps especially when you want to be published in […]
July 11, 2025
Third Financial Aid Summit Highlights Importance of College Outreach
Photo credit Robert Kinlaw. The third North Carolina Financial Aid Summit kicked off June 17 at the Benton Convention Center […]
July 10, 2025
Bill to provide descendants of slavery preference in college admissions moves forward
Top Takeaways Assembly Bill 7, which would allow colleges and universities to give preference to students who are descendants of […]
July 10, 2025
Trump’s law reshapes federal loans and Pell Grants, impacting California students
Top Takeaways The law blocks graduate students from taking out new Grad PLUS loans and caps Parent PLUS loans starting […]
July 9, 2025
As ethnic studies mandate withers, it’s clear state leaders misled districts
Last week, the California Legislature let its widely heralded 2021 high school ethnic studies bill, AB 101, silently lapse after […]
July 8, 2025
What Trump’s budget and tax law means for California students
Top Takeaways Cuts to social safety net programs for the United States’ poorest will partly offset the $4.5 trillion in […]
July 8, 2025