Student homelessness has risen to pre-pandemic levels, after years of decline. Now, a San Jose legislator has introduced a California bill to provide unhoused high school seniors with a guaranteed income to help them enroll in college or enter the workforce. A recent data analysis from the Public Policy Institute of California found that after … Read more
Officials of a small South Bay high school district have put their thumb on the election scale by calling a special tax election for May 7. The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District’s Measure A would impose a nine-year parcel tax to help cover operating costs starting at $128 annually and increasing with inflation. The … Read more
Colorado will distribute $24 million in one-time funding to public school districts and charter schools impacted by the unprecedented influx of immigrant students who arrived after the annual October headcount that determines districts’ state funding. Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed the bipartisan bill, HB24-1389, authorizing that money to be distributed this fiscal year from … Read more
A month before students must decide where they will go to college, the botched revamp of the federal financial aid process has caused aid applications to plummet by more than 30% compared to last year. Now, California universities are bracing for steep declines in student enrollment. “I have not seen numbers this low in years … Read more
Editor’s Note: This article was written for Mosaic Vision, an independent journalism training program for high school students who report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists. They want to display pride in their Palestinian identity. They want to educate their peers about Palestinian people and culture. And they want to reach out … Read more
Seven years after the San Jose Unified School District promised to make accommodations for transgender and nonbinary students at all of its campuses, outraged students, parents and teachers called out San Jose High’s principal and administration at a meeting Wednesday for failing to follow through on that promise. The high school did add a gender-neutral … Read more
JOCOTENANGO, Guatemala — On a quiet cobblestone street in a town 90 minutes outside of Guatemala City, class was in session for hundreds of young Guatemalans on a Monday morning. Children in kindergarten through ninth grade moved through the open-air courtyard of the free private school for disadvantaged students, which is run by a global … Read more
The Fremont Union High School District — which includes parts of Cupertino, Los Altos, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga and Sunnyvale — is implementing a new system for electing trustees to avoid a potential voting rights lawsuit, a move that has some residents upset. The district is planning to transition from its at-large election process, … Read more
Colorado middle and high schools would be required to provide free period products in their restrooms under a bill now in the state legislature, with the legislation’s sponsors equating pads and tampons to essential items students need like nutritious meals and books. The bill’s Democratic sponsors — Rep. Brianna Titone, of Arvada; Rep. Jenny Willford, … Read more
Colorado legislators are working with the governor to allocate millions of dollars in additional funds to help schools that have continued to see an influx of immigrant students since the October enrollment count that sets each district’s annual state funding. Rep. Emily Sirota, a Denver Democrat, said she requested the Joint Budget Committee sponsor legislation … Read more
