Education

Schools in Paradise opened Thursday for the first time since a wildfire scorched the Northern California town. Attendance was less than half what it was before the Camp fire.

LAUSD Supt. Austin Beutner touts increases in student achievement in his annual state of the schools speech. Principals are encouraged, but critics see marginal progress.

Are students losing their math and reading skills over the summer? And what can teachers do about it?

The Jewish experience in America, including teachings about anti-Semitism, must be included in California’s new ethnic studies curriculum, the state schools chief said Wednesday, following sharp criticism of the draft by many Jewish groups and an announcement by top education leaders that it “falls short” and will undergo substantial revisions.

Los Angeles schools would be rated 1 to 5 under a plan being studied by Supt. Austin Beutner.

California lawmakers are poised to make ethnic studies a graduation requirement in high schools and at Cal State universities.

Ethnic studies has its own academic language from hxstory to cisheteropatriarchy.

The idea that all students should be able to afford college isn’t a new or progressive one — California did it for several generations.

Free college tuition sounds great, but student financial aid is complex. Don’t judge that kind of proposal based on a simplistic label like ‘progressive.’

The board approved amendments last week designed to protect the exercise of religion and private religious speech stemming from a lawsuit after two boys were barred from passing out fliers during the school day encouraging classmates to bring Bibles to school.

The University of California was hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging denial of due process, a month after a similar suit was filed against the Cal State system.

An annual survey of high schools in California shows an alarming decrease in football participation for a fourth consecutive year.