More than 115,000 children in California were undocumented in the most recent census count, and it’s estimated almost half of California children have at least one immigrant parent.
A new law requires K-12 schools to add media literacy to curriculum for English language arts, science, math and history-social studies. Among the lessons will be recognizing fake news.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control decided to list COVID-19 among the vaccines it recommends for children, but it's not clear what California will do.
State test results show California students overall performed much worse in math and English language arts than pre-pandemic, but a persistent achievement gap didn't worsen, as initially feared. The results left education officials and experts neither surprised nor hopeless.
A task force of state educators, parents and education experts is working to recommend policies to improve years of low reading scores throughout California