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Thousands of foreign-born teachers leading classrooms throughout the United States now find their jobs and status in jeopardy because of the Trump administration’s campaign to constrict all forms of immigration. Educators hired in recent years on H-1B visas for hard-to-fill K-12 vacancies are waiting more than 10 months for renewals, forcing many from their schools...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. At Pinedale Elementary in Fresno, there’s almost no classroom aides, after-school tutors or behavioral counselors. Literacy activities and parent workshops are scarce. Field trips? Almost non-existent. The school survives on one of the lowest per-pupil expenditures in the state: $16,700 a year, nearly...

This story was originally published on EdSource. With Alberto Carvalho’s resignation now official, Los Angeles Unified faces a new challenge: finding a superintendent to lead the nation’s second-largest school district through mounting budget deficits, declining enrollment and political uncertainty.   Acting Superintendent Andrés Chait will continue leading the district in the interim, but board members have...

Recently, researchers at Dartmouth, Harvard and Stanford released the annual Education Scorecard, which points to a long-entrenched learning recession in American K-12 education.The latest reading achievement data tells a troubling story: Reading scores remain below pre-pandemic levels in many of the nation’s most under-resourced school districts. Equally concerning, researchers found that declines in reading achievement...

This story was originally published on EdSource. Marking the start of two weeks of intensive negotiations, the Legislature passed a state budget Monday with higher revenue projections than those proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, providing several billion dollars in additional spending for TK-12 and community colleges in 2026-27. Several other significant issues remain unresolved. Chief among...

This story was originally published EdSource. In coming days, school districts will find out whether their pressure campaign worked to persuade Gov. Gavin Newsom to turn over the $3.9 billion he planned to withhold, for now, from next year’s state funding for schools and community colleges.  By midnight Monday, June 15, the state Legislature must pass...

Newly released data from America’s longest-running measure of student learning have delivered a decidedly split verdict on the state of schools. Math and reading scores from the “Long-Term Trends” edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress — a federally administered test commonly referred to as the Nation’s Report Card — offer some of the...

For a few years now, the United States has been marinating in a particular version of the American story. Specifically, we’ve been awash in warnings about the country’s alleged vulnerability in the face of cultural change. In this conservative telling, America grows stronger when it is monocultural, wealthier when it goes it alone, and better...

Public education, in red and blue states alike, is being pulled apart by student disengagement, mental health needs, culture war battles, voucher expansion, budget uncertainty and the disruptive force of artificial intelligence. New data prompt renewed handwringing over standardized test scores and their decade-long decline. Meanwhile, Republicans who seek more choice in public education and...

With millions of ballots still to be counted in California, Chino Valley Unified school board President Sonja Shaw has a clear lead in the state superintendent of public instruction primary with 24.9% of the vote, followed by San Diego Unified school board President Richard Barrera with 18.9% of the vote. None of the other candidates...