Education

Walters: Will Spending More Fix Our Schools?

November 3, 2019

Former state legislator Ted Lempert is personally and professionally committed to improving the wellbeing of California’s children. Lempert, the president of Children Now, has tirelessly advocated to improve children’s futures and last week released a lengt...

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California Just Pushed Back School Start Times. Now What?

CalMatters

November 1, 2019

Of the dozens of education bills that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law this year, few will have a more practical impact on everyday lives than the new, later start times for California’s high schools and middl...

County Tops State Average in English, Math — if Fresno Unified Isn’t Counted

Nancy Price

October 29, 2019

Nearly three-fourths of Fresno County students scored above the state average on both English language arts and mathematics standardized tests last year. In fact, the same contingent of Fresno County student...

Bond Measures Could Raise Megabucks for Schools — and Taxes

Nancy Price

October 18, 2019

Clovis Unified and Central Unified trustees will vote next week on whether to put multimillion-dollar school bond measures on the March 3 ballot, the same ballot that will contain a $15 billion state facilities bond measure for California's K-12 schools and pu...

Is Bullard High Accreditation At Risk? Superintendent Says No.

Nancy Price

October 9, 2019

Like all the high schools in Fresno Unified School District, Bullard High School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. But unlike all the others, which have six-year accreditation...

Fresno Unified $240 Million School Bond Gets Strong Support in Survey

Nancy Price

September 30, 2019

Fresno Unified taxpayers appear willing to pay more in property taxes if it means safer, better-equipped, and more up-to-date schools and technology. A survey of 764 district residents likely to vote in the ...

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CA College Students Shell Out $2K a Month for Housing, Books, Food Alone

CalMatters

September 16, 2019

The price of college has become a hot-button issue at both the state and national level, but data has been scarce about how much, beyond tuition, California students actually spend on the housing, food, textbooks and other non-tuition items that they also ...

What Fresno Unified’s Top Officials Learned This Summer at Harvard

Nancy Price

September 5, 2019

When six Fresno Unified trustees and the superintendent traveled to Boston this summer, it wasn't so they could take in a ballgame at Fenway Park, go on a sightseeing tour of the Boston Common or Old North Chur...

Fresno State graduates at commencement ceremony.

Meet the Educator Behind Washington Monthly College Rankings

The Conversation

August 26, 2019

By Bryan Keogh Economics & Business Editor Robert Kelchen, a scholar of higher education, oversees the college rankings at Washington Monthly. The magazine’s rankings are meant to provide an alternati...

At UC Merced, a Pipeline for More Diverse Faculty

CalMatters

August 23, 2019

Alejandra Santoyo is drawn to the thrill of scientific discovery: identifying challenging questions and seeking her own answers. But even after declaring a major in cognitive science, the interdisciplinary study of how the mind works, the UC Merced student sti...

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Walters: Will Spending More Fix Our Schools?

California Just Pushed Back School Start Times. Now What?

County Tops State Average in English, Math — if Fresno Unified Isn’t Counted

Bond Measures Could Raise Megabucks for Schools — and Taxes

Is Bullard High Accreditation At Risk? Superintendent Says No.

Fresno Unified $240 Million School Bond Gets Strong Support in Survey

CA College Students Shell Out $2K a Month for Housing, Books, Food Alone

What Fresno Unified’s Top Officials Learned This Summer at Harvard

At UC Merced, a Pipeline for More Diverse Faculty