“If they’re not seeing themselves represented in what we teach, they get a sense that who they are is not a part of the culture, that they are some kind of a secret, that they are something to be ashamed of."
At the Winship-Robbins Elementary School District, the gap between Latinos and whites on the math portion of the Smarter Balanced test is shrinking. Here’s what they’re doing differently.
The California Department of Education (CDE) has a plan to overhaul the draft ethnic studies model curriculum that caused an uproar with numerous political, ethnic, and religious groups.
A draft version of California’s new ethnic studies curriculum has been scrapped by the Board of Education after critics called it far-left and anti-Semitic.
A draft version of California’s state-mandated ethnic studies curriculum for high schools has some people up in arms.
But schools are moving in the right direction.
Fremont Unified Superintendent Dr. Kim Wallace has resigned, according to NBC News.
Red Oak Elementary School in Oak Park, California has introduced new courses on gender identity, making it one of the few schools to tackle the issue at the grade school level.
Local governments and school districts are struggling to navigate their budget plans in the face of our new, difficult reality.
$9 billion for K-12 schools, $2 billion for community colleges, and another $2 billion for the state’s public university systems.