“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.
Sixty people, including more than twenty children, have received medical treatment after a Delta Boeing 777 dropped jet fuel over the skies of Southeast L.A. County Tuesday.
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.
Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a $222.2 billion budget proposal for 2020-21 on Friday – the second annual spending plan he has presented as governor and the largest in state history.
Eleven candidates have qualified for the Los Angeles County Unified School Board elections in March. This is an important race for charter backers and teachers unions.
A group of parents from the West Contra Costa Unified School District has declared an “educational state of emergency” over the student achievement gap.