Media Coverage

This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom presented the first pass on the 2024-25 state budget. It includes his ideas for addressing an $11 billion drop in funding for TK-12 and community colleges […]

For the first time since 2019, the California Department of Education updated the dashboard that tracks the annual progress of K-12 students on factors such as standardized test scores, chronic absenteeism, suspensions […]

California enrolls a far lower percentage of English learners in bilingual education programs than other states, according to a report released in October from The Century Foundation. The authors also found that […]

Last year, California appeared ready to join 40 other states by mandating a screening tool for dyslexia — a learning disorder that affects 1 in 5 readers. The test would have flagged […]

In the wake of a pandemic that put so many students behind, public schools throughout the Bay Area hope that rethinking literacy will regain academic outcomes. The movement to change the […]

Throughout my decades of experience within the educational system as a teacher and administrator including nine years as the director of curriculum for the Ventura County Office of Education and […]