This Week In California Education

This week, Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Oakley calls for a reexamination of training programs for police in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.

This week: Two views of local control during COVID-19 – Palos Verdes Supt. Alex Cherniss: fewer safety restrictions; Heather Hough of PACE : stronger state expectations for learning.

This week: UC regents decide to abandon the SAT and ACT exams. Plus, how districts are reaching homeless students and what more they could do.

This week: Chancellor Tim White explains why the CSU's 23 campuses will be all online this fall ,and EdSource reporters review education cuts in Gov. Gavin Newsom's bad news budget.

This week: School consultant John Gray discusses potential ways to cope with a devastating revenue shortfall projected for K-12 schools next year.

This week: Gov. Newsom's announcement on resuming school in late July surprised everyone; high school seniors faced a dilemma on Decision Day

This week: Consultant Bob Blattner gives his take on dire revenue forecasts; noted high school teacher Larry Ferlazzo shares how he's staying in touch with students.

This week: We explore the issue of student wellness during a pandemic; and students from Granite Bay High School read excerpts from their journals of life at home, under social isolation.

Nearly half of Kern County's 47 districts will share a platform letting teachers choose common lessons and activities or create their own.

In a flurry of actions and decisions, California OKs pass/fail grades and commits to delivering internet to 100,000 families.

Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley on how the California Community Colleges have gone online in response to the coronavirus. Plus how Cal State LA's college newspaper is covering the big story.

With long closures coming, Linda Darling-Hammond promises the state will be a partner; Jill Baker of Long Beach describes her district's plan for online learning.

As California colleges cancel in-person classes in response to the coronavirus, we explore their readiness to deliver instruction online.

This week: We explore questions as to why Proposition 13 appears likely not to pass; and Orange County Superintendent of Schools Al Mijares discusses how the county is preparing for the coronavirus.

This week: Jeff  Vincent, director of the Center for Cities and Schools at UC Berkeley, explains what Prop 13 would do and how the money would be distributed; and Chris Funk, superintendent of East Side Union High School District, lays out the case for teacher housing.

This week: Leslie Hsu Freeman, manager of dual enrollment for Oakland Unified, describes Oakland's dual enrollment program and the value it brings for first-generation college students; and we discuss the weeklong protests at Berkeley High.

This week: EdSource reporter Larry Gordon summarizes a new UC faculty task force report that recommends requiring the SAT or ACT for freshmen admissions; and Michele Siqueiros, president of the Campaign for College Opportunity, shares why the organization opposes the use of the tests.

We discuss with researcher Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute the Trump Administration's new restrictions on who can seek green cards for permanent residency.

This week: CSU Chancellor Timothy White explains where things stand with the plan to require an additional year of quantitative reasoning; and San Francisco State President Lynn Mahoney describes what the university is doing to increase the graduation rate.

This week: We interview a Bakersfield teacher about how a residency program benefited her; and four education leaders share their views of what they liked and would have liked to hear in Newsom's budget presentation.