Welcome to Essential Education, our daily look at education in California and beyond. Here’s the latest:
- A look at what’s new this year in the nation’s second-largest school system.
- New L.A. schools chief Austin Beutner is touring the district all day. He started in the dark, before the first children arrived. He’ll still be at it after the last children have left.
- At UC Santa Cruz, a severe housing crunch pits much-needed beds against a much-loved meadow.