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The global crisis in education needs a “dramatic shift” to shape a more peaceful, sustainable and just world, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday.

António Guterres was taking part in a  Special Event on Transforming Education – part of the on-going High Level Political Forum ( HLPF ) and looking ahead of the upcoming  Summit of the Future in September.

The event was a call to action, with the UN chief calling on all countries to make a concerted effort to establish genuine learning environments that will provide learning opportunities from childhood to adult stages.

“ Given the stakes, the world cannot afford to short-change education ,” Mr. Guterres said . “But by nearly every measure, that is exactly what we are doing.”

Global challenges

The UN chief said that around 84 million children are set to remain out of school by 2030 - unless action is taken to transform education worldwide.

That means that Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) which aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” is unlikely to be reached.

Currently, only a sixth of countries are on courses to achieve the SDG4 target of universal access to quality education.

Mr. Guterres also noted that completion rates at a secondary level are rising far too slowly, learners are not equipped with the skills they need to succeed in a changing world, and early childhood and adult learning are often seen as optional.

“It’s truly shocking that some 70 per cent of children in sub-Saharan Africa are unable to read a basic text by age 10,” he said.

Financial roadblocks

The Secretary-General said that financing to provide quality education is also insufficient to meet the challenge.

In 2023, the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) estimated that developing nations would need to invest $100 billion annually to achieve SDG4 . This amount increases by about 50 per cent when costs for the digital transformation of education are considered.

Further, Mr. Guterres said that four of every 10 people globally live in nations where governments spend more on debt servicing than on education or health.

He said that over 140 countries committed to turning this crisis around at the Transforming Education Summit in 2022.

But “progress is far too slow and uneven. Something has to change. ”

Poverty and gender

President of the General Assembly, Dennis Francis, echoed the Secretary-General’s statements on the need for transformation.

He recalled recent visits to South Sudan where he said he learned about the “dire poverty of education evident from the fact that at least 70 per cent of eligible children are out of school.”

He also noted that the denial of a girl’s right to education in Afghanistan and the inability to access education in Ukraine and Gaza due to constant attacks are clear indicators of an intractable crisis.

“Beyond access, we must ensure quality education for all fostering inclusive, equitable and lifelong learning opportunities that empower every individual to thrive in a rapidly changing world,” Mr Francis said. “We must combine our political will, with clear targeted actions to decisively address these urgent needs.”

‘Let’s start walking the talk’

Secretary-General Guterres has a four-point plan at the special event on education to end the global education crisis and build momentum towards achieving SDG4 by 2030.

This includes closing the financing and access gap nationwide, supporting teachers on the frontlines of education and and revolutionising education systems, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said.

“Education has got to be in the mix to shape that,” Ms. Mohammed said.

“ The message today is clear: Education is intrinsic to the achievement of our common goals in sustainable development, peace and human rights ,” she concluded, adding that education speaks to the very fabric of our societies and it has an essential contribution to make.

Mr. Guterres said, “ Education is the single-most important investment any country can make . In its people. And in its future,” in his closing remarks.

“So, let’s start walking the talk. Let’s come together to end the global crisis in education.”

• Secretary-General António Guterres

Here are the average U.S. test scores in math. Each year, they fluctuate a little.

From 2019 to 2022, test scores plunged: Students lost more than half a year of learning.

Students have now recovered about a third of what they lost in math, and even less in reading.

Students Are Making a ‘Surprising’ Rebound From Pandemic Closures. But Some May Never Catch Up.

By Claire Cain Miller ,  Sarah Mervosh and Francesca Paris

Elementary and middle-school students have made up significant ground since pandemic school closings in 2020 — but they are nowhere close to being fully caught up, according to the first detailed national study of how much U.S. students are recovering.

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Overall in math, a subject where learning loss has been greatest, students have made up about a third of what they lost. In reading, they have made up a quarter, according to the new analysis of standardized test score data led by researchers at Stanford and Harvard.

The findings suggest that the United States has averted a dire outcome — stagnating at pandemic lows — but that many students are not on pace to catch up before the expiration of a $122 billion federal aid package in September. That money — the single largest federal investment in public education in the country’s history — has paid for extra help, like tutoring and summer school, at schools nationwide.

Even with the federal funds, the gains were larger than researchers expected, based on prior research on extra money for schools. Recovery was not a given , judging from past unexpected school closures, like for natural disasters or teachers’ strikes.

Still, the gap between students from rich and poor communities — already huge before the pandemic — has widened.

“One of the big and surprising findings is there actually has been a substantial recovery,” said Sean F. Reardon, a professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford, who conducted the new analysis with Thomas J. Kane, an economist at Harvard; Erin Fahle, executive director of the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford; and Douglas O. Staiger, an economist at Dartmouth.

“But it’s an unevenly felt recovery,” Professor Reardon said, “so the worry there is that means inequality is getting baked in.”

Some children may never catch up and could enter adulthood without the full set of skills they need to succeed in the work force and life.

The students most at risk are those in poor districts, whose test scores fell further during the pandemic. Though the new data shows that they have begun to catch up, they had much more to make up than their peers from higher-income families, who are already closer to a recovery.

The result: Students in poor communities are at a greater disadvantage today than they were five years ago.

Yet there is significant variation. Some wealthy districts have barely improved. Some poorer districts have made remarkable recoveries, offering lessons for what has worked. In places like Durham, N.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Delano, Calif., students are now about fully caught up.

See How Your School District Is Recovering From the Pandemic

Look up data from the first detailed national study of learning loss and academic recovery since the pandemic.

The data does not include any progress students may be making this school year, which will be measured in state tests this spring.

But the study suggests that many students will still need significant support, just as federal aid is running out.

“We seemed to have lost the urgency in this crisis,” said Karyn Lewis, who has studied pandemic learning declines for NWEA, a research and student assessment group. “It is problematic for the average kid. It is catastrophic for the kids who were hardest hit.”

Why Inequality Has Widened

The analysis looked at test score data for third- through eighth-grade students in about 30 states — representing about 60 percent of the U.S. public school population in those grades. It examined pandemic declines from 2019 to 2022 , and measured recovery as of spring 2023. It offers the first national comparison of recovery at a school district level. (It did not include high school students.)

Test scores fell most in poor districts. School closures, though not the only driver of pandemic losses , were a major factor: Schools in poor communities stayed remote for longer in the 2020-21 school year, and students suffered bigger declines when they did .

But once schools reopened, the pace of recovery was similar across districts, the analysis shows. Both the richest and poorest districts managed to teach more than in a usual school year — about 17 percent more in math, and 8 percent more in reading — as schools raced to help students recover.

Yet because poor districts had lost more ground, their progress was not nearly enough to outpace wealthier districts, widening the gulf between them. The typical rich district is about a fifth of a grade level behind where it was in 2019. The typical poor district: nearly half a grade.

Another factor is widened inequality within districts.

When looking at data available in 15 states, researchers found that in a given district — poor or rich — children across backgrounds lost similar ground, but students from richer families recovered faster.

One possible explanation: Even within districts, individual schools have become increasingly segregated by income and race in recent years, said Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California. When this happens, she has found, achievement gaps grow , largely because students from wealthier families benefit from a concentration of resources.

Schools made up mostly of high-income families attract more experienced teachers. High-earning parents are more likely to invest in tutors or enrichment outside of school.

Even when schools offered interventions to help students catch up, lower-income families might have been less able to rearrange schedules or transportation to ensure their children attended. (This is one reason experts advise scheduling tutoring during the school day, not after.)

Racial gaps in student scores have also grown, with white students pulling further ahead.

Black students, on average, are now recovering at a faster pace than white or Hispanic students, the analysis suggests — but because they lost more ground than white students, they remain further behind. The gap between white and Hispanic students has also grown, and Hispanic students appear to have had a relatively weak recovery overall. The analysis did not include Asian students, who represent 5 percent of public school students.

Where Students Are and Are Not Recovering

Another factor in recovery: where students live.

Take Massachusetts, which has some of the nation’s best math and reading scores , but wide inequality. The recovery there was led by wealthier districts. Test scores for students in poor districts have shown little improvement, and in some cases, kept falling, leaving Massachusetts with one of the largest increases in the achievement gap. (Officials in Massachusetts hope that an increase in state funding for K-12 schools last year, as part of a plan to direct more money to poor districts, will help close gaps.)

In states like Kentucky and Tennessee that have traditionally had more middling test scores, but with less inequality, poor students have recovered remarkably well.

In Oregon, test scores appeared not to recover. State officials pointed to investments they hope will show results in the future, including permanent funding for early literacy . “We are definitely not satisfied with where we are,” said Charlene Williams, director of the Oregon Department of Education. She added, “We need every minute of instruction we can get.”

Math scores in 2019,

2022 and 2023

Some states, including Mississippi , had strong recoveries.

Some states are excluded because of lower test participation rates, lack of sufficiently detailed public data or changes to their tests between 2022 and 2023. Source: Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford

Across the country, richer districts overall saw gains. But some have made little to no recovery, including Forsyth County on the outskirts of Atlanta, and Rochester, Mich., in suburban Detroit; and Lake Oswego, Ore., near Portland.

And some poorer districts did better than expected, including large urban districts like Chicago, Nashville and Philadelphia, which saw big drops during the pandemic, but have had above-average recoveries.

In the years before the pandemic, big-city school districts often outpaced the nation in learning gains , even as they served larger shares of poor students and more students learning English as a second language.

“We have had to be more innovative,” said Raymond Hart, executive director for the Council of the Great City Schools, which represents 78 large urban school districts.

Bright Spots: What Has Worked?

Birmingham, Ala., prioritized extra time for learning over school breaks. Mark Sullivan, the superintendent, said some parents initially balked, but have come to love the program.

Bob Miller for The New York Times

When it comes to success, no one strategy appeared to lead the way.

In interviews in a sample of districts with outsize recovery, educators described multiple approaches. Some focused on spending more federal dollars on academics — and less, for instance, on renovating school buildings . Some prioritized adding instruction time — via intensive tutoring , summer school or other sessions — which research shows can produce significant gains . Many experimented, coming up with new strategies to help students, including their mental health.

“I stopped looking for these silver bullets,” said Alberto M. Carvalho, the superintendent in Los Angeles, which has seen above-average recovery compared with the rest of California, including strong recoveries for Black and Hispanic children. “More often than not, it is the compound effect of good strategies.”

The $122 billion federal aid package has helped fund this effort, especially in poor communities. The poorest districts received about $6,200 per student in aid , compared with $1,350 for the most affluent districts.

But the law required only 20 percent of the money be spent on learning loss, with no mandate to invest in the most effective strategies and little national accounting of how the money was spent. That has made it hard to evaluate the impact of federal dollars nationally.

One strategy some districts used was spending much more than 20 percent of their funds on academic recovery.

For example, Weakley County, Tenn., a lower-income and mostly white rural district, allocated more than three-fourths. ( Tennessee gave districts incentives to spend at least half of their federal dollars on academics.) Today, Weakley County’s math and reading scores are fully recovered.

Its main focus was a tutoring program — students who are behind meet with experienced tutors in groups of three, twice a week. The district also hired instructional coaches, social workers and educational assistants who teach small groups in classrooms. “If you ask a teacher and say, ‘In a perfect world, if I have $30,000, what would you like me to buy?’ every teacher would say, ‘Another person in this classroom to help,’” said Betsi Foster, assistant director of schools.

Other districts focused on adding more hours of school, including Birmingham, Ala., a majority Black district where most students qualify for free or reduced price lunch.

The superintendent, Mark Sullivan, said he first wanted to make school year-round, a dramatic solution that found little support among families and teachers. So he offered a compromise: The district would hold extra instructional sessions available to all students during fall, winter and spring breaks, in addition to summer school.

Mr. Sullivan said some parents initially balked, but have come to love the program, in part because it provides child care during school breaks. More than a quarter of students typically participate.

Combined with other tactics, like hiring local college students as tutors, Birmingham made up for its pandemic losses in math.

The pandemic also spurred educators to innovate.

Among other strategies, Durham, N.C., a racially and economically diverse district that is now fully recovered, asked its most effective teachers to teach summer school and paid $40 an hour, up from the usual $25 rate.

It is one example of setting high expectations, which the superintendent, Pascal Mubenga, said was integral to recovery. “We did not just give that opportunity to any person; we recruited the best,” he said.

In the Delano Union school district, which serves mostly poor Hispanic students in central California, employees began making daily visits to the homes of students who were frequently absent — a ballooning national problem since the pandemic. The district’s absenteeism rate has fallen under 10 percent, from 29 percent.

The district focused on student well-being as a prerequisite for academics. For example, teachers now ask students to write down how they are feeling each week, a simple and free strategy that has helped uncover obstacles to learning — a fight with a friend, money problems at home.

“If a child is not mentally OK, no matter how good my lesson is, my students will not learn,” said Maria Ceja, who teaches fourth grade.

Students in Maria Ceja’s fourth-grade class in Delano, Calif., with Rosalina Rivera, the superintendent. Since the pandemic, teachers have begun using hands-on tools during math lessons, a strategy they said is helping children after online learning.

Adam Perez for The New York Times

Despite the successes, the pace of national recovery has been “too little,” said Margaret Spellings, a former secretary of education under George W. Bush. “We’re slowly recovering, but not fast enough.”

Congress has shown little appetite to add more funding, and many districts will soon end or cut back programs.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Biden administration did not push for more federal dollars, and instead renewed its call for states to take a greater role, both in financing programs and tracking the number of students receiving intensive tutoring or summer school.

Professor Kane, one of the researchers, advised schools to notify the parents of all children who are behind, in time to sign up for summer school. Despite setbacks on standardized tests, report card grades have remained stable, and polling indicates most parents believe their children are on track .

And what if students never catch up?

While test scores are just one measure, lower achievement in eighth grade has real impact in adulthood. It is associated with lower lifetime earnings , as well as a higher risk of unemployment and incarceration, research has shown.

At this rate, the United States will have a less skilled work force in the future, leading to lower economic output, said Eric Hanushek, an education economist at the Hoover Institution.

The highest-achieving students are likely to be least affected, said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University — perhaps fewer will study advanced math and science and enter rigorous professions like engineering.

Students in the vast middle — some who may otherwise have become nurses or electricians, for example — could lose opportunities to establish middle-class lives. Community college enrollment is down from 2019 .

And the lowest-achieving students may further disengage from school, making it harder to graduate from high school and hold down even low-wage jobs.

As the pandemic generation enters adulthood, they may face a lifetime of lost opportunities.

Update, Feb. 8, 2024: This article has been updated to reflect a change to the data from researchers at Stanford and Harvard. On Monday, the researchers removed Oregon from the data set because its test participation rates were slightly below their threshold of 94 percent in 2022 and 2023. This article previously said that test scores continued to decline there from 2022 to 2023. The researchers said even with the lower test score participation, the data showed that Oregon students, including in the Lake Oswego district, made a near-zero recovery. Source: The Educational Opportunity Project, Stanford University and the Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University

Math and reading average test scores are calculated for students from third through eighth grade in about 30 states, which account for about 60 percent of the U.S. public school population in those grades.

Researchers excluded school districts in states that do not provide sufficiently detailed test data on their public websites, and in states for years where participation rates were below 94 percent. Some small districts and charter schools were also excluded due to insufficient data.

To develop a consistent scale across states and over time, researchers link test results with the results of a federal exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress . Since there was no NAEP test in 2023, researchers relied on the stability of state tests and proficiency definitions for recovery estimates; states that changed their exams between 2021-22 and 2022-23 were excluded from the 2023 data.

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The most recent federal data shows that there’s been a decrease in campus crime, continuing a decades-long decline of school violence, The 74 reported on National Center for Education Statistics and other data . 

In 2022, the first year that students nationwide returned to in-person learning, students 12 to 18 years old reported being the victims of violence such as rape, robbery and assault at a rate of 15.6 incidents per 1,000 students, down from the 2018 victimization rate of 24 incidents per 1,000 students, according to the 74. The rate was nearly double that 10 years ago. 

Other rates that the 74 reported on from the 2021-22 school year include: 

• 19.2% of students reported being bullied in comparison to 27.8% in 2010-11; cyberbullying, specifically, has increased as technology and computer use has grown over the years.
• 5.5% of students said they observed a gang presence in their schools, down from 9% in 2018-19

School safety expert Deborah Temkin Cahill, the chief research officer at the nonprofit Child Trends, told the 74 that in the last decade, school violence has declined as schools “double down on their efforts to improve school climate and to implement social-emotional learning.”

The one exception, according to the 74, was school shootings, which were at an all-time high despite how rare they are. 

The data, the 74 reported, complicates the debates about the need for school police.

In the aftermath of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd, igniting a national revolt and the defund-the-police movement in 2020, dozens of school districts ended their relationships with police, the 74 reported. Four years later, only about 20 of California’s 977 public-school districts had made significant changes to school policing, EdSource found in its investigation . 

Friday, August 23, 2024, 10:30 am

Link copied. classroom interpreters in clovis join unionization efforts.

Earlier this week, classroom interpreters in the 42,000-student Clovis Unified in Fresno County filed a petition to join the Association of Clovis Educators (ACE), according to a media release the group emailed to EdSource. 

ACE is behind the most recent effort to unionize teachers in the school district, the largest California district without a teachers union. Psychologists and mental health professionals in the district are already unionized under ACE. The interpreters, Clovis Unified’s Educational American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters, could become the next unionized unit under ACE, giving them the ability to negotiate a contract with the district.

“These language professionals have struggled to maintain a sustainable career in the district despite having the years of education, training, experience – and most importantly, the passion – required for the work,” ACE said in its release. “The highest priority for ASL Interpreters is to serve Clovis Unified’s Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community by making communication and learning accessible, but this is a challenge with limited resources and staffing shortages.”

Students who are deaf or hard of hearing are best equipped to access a public education when they have services and support provided by interpreters, the release said. 

“If you have attended, visited or worked at our Garfield, Alta Sierra or Buchanan campuses, you have likely seen us interpreting - be it classrooms, rallies, sporting events, concerts, band competitions, field trips or graduation ceremonies,” ASL Interpreter Sarah Maricle said in the media release. “The role of Educational ASL Interpreters at CUSD is to bridge the communication gap between our DHH and hearing campus communities.”

Thursday, August 22, 2024, 10:41 am

Link copied. career preparation and teacher recruitment are priorities for americans from both parties, according to poll.

Americans from both parties agree that the next president should focus on preparing students for careers and recruiting and keeping good teachers, according to a poll by PDK International, a professional organization for educators.

The 74 reports that beyond those issues, there are stark differences in what voters from the two main political parties want in terms of education.

Among Democrats, 86% want the next administration to focus on student mental health, compared with 63% of Republicans.

When it comes to protecting students from discrimination, 81% of Democrats want this to be a focus, compared with 45% of Republicans.

Seventy-one percent of Democrats want the next administration to focus on expanding access to public preschool, compared with 48% of Republicans.

Eighty-six percent of Democrats want a focus on college affordability, compared with 59% of Republicans.

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Link copied. number of colleges and universities shrinking, report says.

The number of colleges and universities eligible for federal financial aid shrank by almost 2% between 2022-23 and 2023-24, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics.

The report showed a net loss of 99 colleges and universities. According to Inside Higher Ed, data from the U.S. Department of Education shows more detail -- overall, 161 institutions closed, merged or otherwise lost federal financial aid eligibility, many of them small, for-profit vocational colleges.

At the same time, 62 colleges and universities were added, mostly public four-year institutions, Inside Higher Ed reports.

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Link copied. oakland teachers union calls for action after high levels of lead reported in school drinking water.

After Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) officials released lead testing results in drinking water from its schools this week, the teachers union is calling for swift action and accountability. 

The Oakland Education Association “is deeply troubled and concerned by reports of lead in drinking water at schools across OUSD,” union President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said in a statement. “It’s shocking that OUSD knew there were unsafe lead levels at some schools as early as April of last school year and did not take steps to address the necessary maintenance to ensure our community’s health and safety.”

At some of the 45 schools tested, lead levels rose well beyond the standards set by the district and state. If levels are higher than 5 parts per billion, a district policy set in 2018, Clean Drinking Water , says the issue requires remediation. The state requires remediation if levels are above 15 parts per billion. 

Lead tests at Lincoln Elementary School were 930 parts per billion, district data found. Elmhurst United Middle School’s drinking water tested at 180 parts per billion and Fruitvale Elementary School's levels rose to 90 parts per billion. “OUSD needs to do better to ensure safe facilities for our students and staff,” Taiz-Rancifer said. “We are still finding out the scope and seriousness of the situation but expect OUSD to take swift and transparent steps to ensure the health and safety of district staff and students; we will work with educators, families, and partner unions in OUSD to ensure these problems are addressed.”

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Link copied. california’s for-profit schools might lead to more debt than jobs, data suggests.

California officials often warn students that for-profit schools may make misleading career claims, leading to debt rather than jobs, yet many for-profit schools remain on the state’s list of recommended job-training programs, Cal Matters reports.

In 2022, California spent roughly $61 million from the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to support job training for low-income and unemployed adults, according to data. It’s one of the largest job training programs in California, designed to prepare students for high-quality jobs .

However, some of the most popular programs are for medical or nursing assistants, whose graduates earned less than $30,000 in the year after graduation, according to data collected from the state’s Employment Development Department.

Trucking is the only training program that’s more popular than nursing. While it pays higher wages, the working conditions are so grueling that most new drivers quit within the first year. 

“These jobs are a concern,” said Abby Snay, deputy secretary at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Cal Matters reports. “We need to do better as a system in advising people.” 

Link copied. Students still struggling four years after the pandemic, report shows

Four years after schools were shuttered during the pandemic, the latest analyses from three scholastic assessment companies paint a dire picture of where American children are now academically. While there are a few bright spots, the general trend is concerning, as Hechinger reported . 

One report found that U.S. students did not make any progress catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and, in fact, got further behind in math and reading, deepening pandemic learning loss.

“At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, the Northwest Evaluation Association. “Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer support this conclusion. Growth has slowed to lag pre-pandemic rates, resulting in achievement gaps that continue to widen, and in some cases, now surpass what we had previously deemed as the low point.” 

Eighth graders, who were in fourth grade when the pandemic hit, appear to be the worst off. They now need nine months of additional school time to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis . “This is a crisis moment with middle schoolers,” said Lewis, as Hechinger reported . “Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” 

Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 9:24 am

Link copied. san diego state brings in most research dollars in csu system.

San Diego State University brought in $230 million in grant money for research during the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune . 

The nearly $38 million increase could be due to the university’s decision 10 years ago to recruit faculty that could both teach and do research. The university has increased its research funding by $122 million in the last decade.

“The CSU was not designed to be heavily involved in research, so it is quite impressive that San Diego State has been able to do this,” Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego told the Union-Tribune.”

San Diego State University has raised more than any of the other campuses in the  California State University system, according to the article.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 7:09 am

Link copied. high cost kills mandatory kindergarten bill.

Legislation that would have required all California children to attend kindergarten failed Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The bill would have required every child to complete a year of kindergarten before being admitted to first grade in public school. Currently, students are only required to begin attending school when they are age 6.

Assembly Bill 2226   was rejected by the Senate Appropriations Committee, which considers bills potential costs to the state. A legislative analysis of the bill said its exact cost was difficult to determine, but that it would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Four similar bills have failed in the last decade. Senate Bill 70 made it to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk and was vetoed in 2022. The veto note said the bill would have ongoing costs of up to $268 million.

Monday, August 19, 2024, 8:40 am

Link copied. unsafe levels of lead found in some of oakland’s public schools.

Twenty-two schools in the Oakland Unified School District have unsafe levels of lead in their water, ABC7 reported . 

According to a letter released to parents and staff at Frick United Academy of Language last week, there are five fixtures at the school “with lead levels above 5 parts per billion."

"The lead was detected in a report that was available for release in April. Students have been going to that school, summer school, included drinking that water, which is completely unacceptable and infuriating," Stuart Loebl, a 6th grade teacher, told ABC7. 

School Board President Sam Davis called the situation a “real crisis” and said the district is “taking it very seriously.” Oakland Unified has also said it will install new filters and pipes on campuses — which will be tested to make sure they are in keeping with safety standards. 

Link copied. It is impossible to know how many Los Angeles foster youth are homeless

With many moving from their homes to the streets, it is difficult to know how many foster youth in Los Angeles are homeless, the Los Angeles Times reported.  

U.S. District Judge John Kronstadt permitted a class-action lawsuit against the state and Los Angeles County to move forward in June. 

Teenagers in California can stay in foster care until the age of 21 — and the suit insists that the governments’ responsibility toward foster youth extends beyond when they turn 18. The four law firms involved also claim that insufficient mental health services and stable housing opportunities contribute. 

“We still find ourselves with far too many children living on the streets, couch-surfing, in and out of homeless shelters,” Leecia Welch, a deputy litigation director at New York-based Children’s Rights, told the Times. “It is just incredibly dangerous.”

Last week, the attorneys updated a complaint, pointing out that the county and state are unaware of how many foster youth are homeless. 

“It is very hard to compare L.A. to other places, because they simply don’t track whether or not kids are ending up homeless,” Welch told the Times. 

Overall in Los Angeles county, there are 2,500 people in foster care who are between the ages of 18 and 21, the Times reported. 

“The county is committed to ensuring the well-being of young people as they enter adulthood and providing available services to assist with that transition,” the LA County Department of Children and Family Services, which does not track homelessness rates among foster youth, told the Times in a statement. 

The Department of Social Services, however, would not comment on the litigation because it is ongoing.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles county, the point-in-time homeless survey found 3,718 people who are either living on the streets or in temporary shelters between the ages of 18 and 24. 

“I wouldn’t be surprised if close to half have been in our system,” its supervisor, Kathryn Barger, told the Times.

Friday, August 16, 2024, 9:08 am

Link copied. a dozen community colleges to expand nursing programs to address shortage.

A dozen community colleges, including Modesto Junior College in the Central Valley, will expand their nursing programs as part of a statewide initiative to address the estimated shortage of 36,000 licensed nurses, The Modesto Bee reported . 

The intent of the initiative is to increase student enrollment in nursing programs granting associate degrees, leading to more registered nurses, especially in rural and remote areas, the Bee reported. 

According to the Bee, the other participating colleges include: Butte College, Cabrillo College, Monterey Peninsula College, Bakersfield College, Cuesta College, Ventura College, Golden West College, Saddleback College, Mt. San Jacinto College, Riverside City College and College of the Desert.

The Healthforce Center at the University of California, San Francisco projects the nurse shortage in the Central Valley region to be even worse because of a lack of educational access and nurses relocating to other parts of the state,  the Bee reported. 

“The need for nurses in our region is immense, and we have far more applicants to our program than we can accept,” Modesto Junior College President Brian Sanders said in a statement, the Bee reported. “We are committed to working with the Chancellor’s Office, our fellow colleges and our healthcare partners to increase the number of nurses serving our local community.”

Friday, August 16, 2024, 9:07 am

Link copied. bill requiring schools to offer computer science dies in committee.

Proposed legislation to require California high schools to offer computer science, thus addressing disparities in access , failed to come out of the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday.

A similar bill died in the same committee last year.

Without Assembly Bill 2097 , access to computer science in California will continue to be inequitable across socioeconomic, racial, gender and geographic lines, according to the bill’s author Assemblymember Marc Berman.

Based on a September 2021 report with data from the 2018-19 school year:

• 31% of schools serving low-income students offered a course, compared with 69% of high-income schools
• 34% of campuses with a high proportion of Black, Indigenous, Latino and Pacific Islander students offered a course, compared to 52% of schools with a high proportion of Asian and white students
• 30% of females were enrolled in computer science courses in high school even though they made up 49% of the population

More recent data from the 2022-23 school year found that 27% of rural schools offer a course, compared with 50% of urban schools and 52% of suburban schools, according to a national 2023 State of Computer Science Education report .

Berman said the bill would have closed those gaps and increased access across the state.

“There’s a lot of examples (from other states) that we can look to for how to accomplish the goal of all high schools offering computer science,” Berman told EdSource. Thirty other states require high schools to teach computer science.

According to a bill analysis by the Senate Appropriations Committee, school districts would have had to purchase instructional materials and provide professional development to current teachers – an unknown cost.

But the Department of Finance estimated $50 million to $73 million in ongoing funding from Proposition 98 and opposed the bill.

About 425 school districts and over 1,500 schools with grades 9-12 would have been impacted.

After the bill died in the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday, Holly Stepp, a spokesperson with College Board, said, “We will continue to work to find ways to provide California students with access to computer science courses.”

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 12:50 pm

Link copied. columbia university president resigns following “period of turmoil”.

Nemat “Minouche” Shafik has stepped down as president of Columbia University following what she called a “period of turmoil” at the institution.

Shafik, who announced her departure on Aug. 14, was one of several presidents of elite academic institutions to face fierce questioning from legislators about how they responded to antisemitism on campus in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Harvard University president Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill both resigned their posts following criticism of how they answered lawmakers’ questions.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Shafik chose a different strategy than those leaders in her congressional hearing, promising a more forceful response to discriminatory rhetoric. Soon after, she authorized New York City police to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.

Critics impugned Shafik’s leadership, the Chronicle reported. Some said calling in police risked students’ safety in an effort to mollify lawmakers. Others said Shafik could have done more to shield Jewish students from harassment and discrimination.

“I have had the honor and privilege to lead this incredible institution, and I believe that—working together—we have made progress in a number of important areas. However, it has also been a period of turmoil where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community,” Shafik wrote in a message to the campus.

“This period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as it has for others in our community. Over the summer, I have been able to reflect and have decided that my moving on at this point would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges ahead. I am making this announcement now so that new leadership can be in place before the new term begins,” she wrote.

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 10:35 am

Link copied. lawmakers push again for parental leave for teachers.

Lawmakers are again pushing to pass a bill that would give parental leave to teachers, after a similar bill was vetoed in 2019, as reported by CBS .

Assembly Bill 2901 would give teachers 14 weeks of fully paid leave after having a baby, paid for by school districts.

Most Californians can take up to 16 weeks of paid leave after having a baby — eight weeks of disability leave and eight weeks of paid family leave, with up to 70% of their salary.

But teachers are not able to access those paid leaves because, as public employees, no money is deducted from their paychecks to fund State Disability Insurance. That means teachers have to use any sick or vacation leave they have to pay for their time off after having a baby.

The bill passed the Assembly and is currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 9:27 am

Link copied. school district in san diego county defies new state law by passing parental notification policy.

Cajon Valley Union School District adopted a new policy Wednesday that requires school administrators to inform parents if students younger than 12 ask to change their name or pronouns at school, or to use a different restroom.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune , the decision appears to defy a new state law signed into law in July, that prohibits school districts from requiring employees to disclose students' sexual orientation or gender identity without their consent.

Some other districts in California approved similar policies in the past, but this appears to be the first district to do so after the law was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Chino Valley Unified District last year over a similar policy that required school staff to tell parents about children's changes in gender identity. A judge temporarily blocked that policy from being implemented, while the lawsuit is pending.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 10:31 am

Link copied. new housing for homeless families in nine communities in california.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that nine communities will receive new grants to build 533 permanent homes for families and others experiencing homelessness.

Newsom announced that the grants, which total $130.6 million, will create 533 permanent homes for an estimated 4,886 Californians at risk of or experiencing homelessness in the cities of Merced, Richmond, San Francisco and Sebastopol, and the counties of Orange, Riverside, San Mateo, Kern and Sacramento.

The new housing will be focused on young people, individuals and families experiencing homelessness, according to the governor's press release.

The new grants are part of Project Homekey, which began in 2020 and has since awarded $3.6 billion total to build 15,850 homes and serve more than 172,000 California households.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 9:51 am

Link copied. fresno superintendent sets goal for improving test scores.

Fresno Unified's interim superintendent, Misty Her, plans to increase standardized test scores, decreasing the distance from the state standards for proficiency by 15 percentage points in the next two years.

Interim superintendent Her detailed this and some of her other plans in an interview with The Fresno Bee .

"So what we’re going to do is know every child by need, which means we’re going to pull every child up and look at what they excelled in and where the standards that they really struggled in, and how we help them learn things that they don’t know," Her said.

Her also discussed the district's literacy plan with the Bee.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 8:09 am

Link copied. newsom asks school leaders to restrict cellphones this school year.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a letter to school district leaders today calling on them to immediately restrict the use of cellphones on campus.

“Excessive smartphone use among youth is linked to increased anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues,” Newsom said in the letter.

The governor cited a Pew Research Center survey that found that 72% of high school and 33% of middle school teachers reported cellphone distractions as a major problem. Common Sense Media found that 97% of students use their phones during the school day for a median of 43 minutes, according to the letter.

The letter applauded schools and districts, including Santa Barbara Unified and Bullard High in Fresno, that have already limited the use of cellphones on campus. He said some of the schools have reported higher test scores, grades and student engagement, and less bullying and damage to school facilities since they instituted restrictions.

“The evidence is clear: reducing phone use in class leads to improved concentration, better academic outcomes, and enhanced social interactions,” Newsom said.

Newsom reminded school leaders that legislation signed in 2019 gives them the authority to regulate smartphones during school hours. He urged school districts to act immediately to restrict cellphone use this school year.

“This legislation was a crucial step in our efforts to minimize distractions and foster a more conducive environment for our students to learn,” Newsom said. “It is imperative that school districts take full advantage of this law to address the growing concerns surrounding student well-being and academic performance.”

The governor also indicated that he will be working with the Legislature to pass legislation to further limit the use of cellphones by students on campus.

“Every classroom should be a place of focus, learning, and growth,” Newsom said. “Working together, educators, administrators, and parents can create an environment where students are fully engaged in their education, free from the distractions on the phones and pressures of social media."

Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 8:07 am

Link copied. san josé state converts 13-floor hotel tower into student housing.

A 13-floor hotel tower in downtown San José has been converted into housing for San José State undergraduates.

Over nine months the underutilized south tower of the Signia by Hilton San José Hotel was converted into Spartan Village on the Paseo, which will be home to 700 undergraduate students, according to a news release from San José State University.

“This transformation provides much-needed university housing and integrates students into the heart of downtown San José,” according to the news release. 

Spartan Village on the Paseo has suites of varying sizes, housing two, three or four students. Each suite has its own bathroom. The facility has a dining hall, a gaming and movie screening, room, a community kitchen, a fitness center, study lounges and 24-hour security. It is a seven-minute walk to the university, according to the university.

To finance and complete the project San José State University partnered with Throckmorton Partners, an investment company that purchased the tower for $73.1 million in 2023. The company also spent $40 million on renovations. It will lease the facility to San José State for 25 months before selling it to the university for $165 million, according to the university.

The university will celebrate the opening of the residence hall with a ceremony at 170 Market Street in San José at 4:15 p.m Thursday.  

Monday, August 12, 2024, 9:59 am

Link copied. concern resurfaces over transparency in san diego unified’s jrotc form.

Following Chicano students’ push for reform in 2008, the San Diego Unified School District made adjustments to its Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, including the removal of shooting ranges. Last year, they started requiring a consent form for each participating student — but concerns remain, KPBS reported . 

The group San Diego Chicano/Latino Concilio on Higher Education sent a letter to the board of education over the summer, claiming the consent form doesn’t provide enough information. It specifically does not mention that JROTC is taught by retired military officers and that it does not meet A-G requirements, they allege. 

It is too late to make changes to this year’s form, but Jennifer Roberson, the senior director of the district’s office of graduation, told KPBS the district remains open to discussing potential changes for the next year. 

“Students are opting to be in the program. They know that it's voluntary, it's not required. But we do believe that the skills that they're being taught do prepare them to be future-ready,” she told KPBS.

A study sponsored by the Army last year found that Army JROTC students are not as likely to enroll in college following graduation — sparking concern among local Chicano leaders, KPBS reported. 

Monday, August 12, 2024, 9:42 am

Link copied. merced college launches new virtual reality learning lab.

Students at Merced College will have access to a new virtual reality learning lab this fall, the Merced Sun-Star reported . 

The lab — which involved the partnership of Dreamscape Learn and Arizona State University — is the first of its kind at one of the state’s community colleges. 

“The real showcase today is you walking through this amazing space that’s going to be transformational in how we teach and how our students learn,” Merced College President Chris Vitelli said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new lab on Friday, the Sun Star reported.

Through virtual reality, coursework and lab work — including supplementary parts of a biology curriculum — can be brought to life. 

“We deliver these experiences using advanced virtual reality and haptic technology so the students feel like they’re actually living them, not just watching them,” Chris Huff, senior vice president of academic partnerships for Dreamscape Learn, told the Merced Sun-Star. “So it’s really a combination of pedagogy, the emotional storytelling and the VR together that creates this unique experience.”

Offerings in chemistry and art history will also take on new virtual reality forms in the near future. 

Friday, August 9, 2024, 10:39 am

Link copied. oakland unified electric buses to address concerns for riders with special needs.

Oakland Unified is debuting the nation’s first all-electric bus fleet on Monday when the 2024-25 school year starts, a shift from diesel-fueled buses and an answer to many concerns parents have for their children with special needs, CBS News reported . The 74 buses will transport the district’s 1,300 special education students as the district only provides transportation for that student population. 

The effects of air pollution, such as the exhaust from diesel engines, is more severe for students with special needs, an expert told CBS News. 

The buses will not only result in less greenhouse gas emissions but also provide  parents and schools with a way to monitor where the students are, according to CBS News. 

Parents told CBS News that they worry about their special education students riding the bus to school. For example, Julie Shenkman said her son Sam is developmentally disabled and  has difficulty communicating, such as when the bus had a flat tire and was two hours late getting to his Half Moon Bay school. 

"We never knew when he reached his destination," Shenkman said. "We never knew if there were stops along the way. If there were any problems. And it was always a constant worry."

With the electric buses in Oakland, when a child gets on or off the bus, a notification is sent to parents and the school, CBS News reported about the integrated platform of the buses. Parents can also monitor the bus route.

“For me, it was really important with the tracking and the technology from Zum (the electric bus startup that partnered with the district) to have that option to be able to treat these most precious assets, our kids…” said Kimberly Raney, OUSD transportation director. 

Friday, August 9, 2024, 9:57 am

Link copied. california, nvidia partner to bring ai resources to community colleges.

California is partnering with Nvidia to bring new artificial intelligence resources to the state's community colleges, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office announced Friday.

Under the agreement, AI concepts will be integrated into curriculum and help students "learn how to use AI applications to help them get jobs in high-demand sectors," according to a press release announcing the partnership. AI workshops related to in-demand careers will also be organized across the colleges, and the colleges will also begin to offer AI certificate programs.

Sonya Christian, the chancellor of the 116-college system, said in a statement that the partnership will help the system's students get "industry aligned skills in AI" and be prepared for careers in AI-related fields.

"We can’t stand still as AI changes the future of learning, and our approach prioritizes equitable access to AI teaching and learning enhancements that will lift up underserved populations," Christian added.

Friday, August 9, 2024, 9:31 am

Link copied. female, lgtbq+ students report more signs of poor mental health than peers.

In 2023, female and LGBTQ+ students reported more violence, signs of poor mental health and suicidal thoughts than other groups, K-12 Dive reported on findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Based on the survey data, 53% of female students and 65% of LGBTQ+ students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, compared to 40% of all student groups feeling that way. 

The survey, which provides a 10-year trend with two-year changes, shows that teen mental health, overall, has improved from 2021 to 2023, despite the disparities among some groups. 

The 40% of students feeling sad or hopeless in 2023 decreased from 42% in 2021 – what the CDC calls “positive signs” in the data, K-12 Dive reported. Still, there are increased percentages of students reporting violence or safety concerns at school during that time period. Those who experienced bullying rose from 15% to 19%, and missing school due to safety concerns increased from 9% to 13%. 

Kathleen Ethier, the director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, said in a Tuesday statement that it is “critical” to address school-based violence and safety concerns, according to K-12 Dive.

Thursday, August 8, 2024, 9:11 am

Link copied. fafsa delayed for second year in a row.

The release of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will again be delayed this year. The form is usually released on Oct. 1, but U.S. Department of Education officials announced Wednesday that the form will not be available to students and families until Dec. 1.

According to the news release , the Department of Education will test the system in October with a small group of students, colleges and universities, so officials can fix any issues before releasing the form nationwide.

The FAFSA was revised and released late last year, with a number of glitches and errors that delayed students' ability to apply for and receive financial aid offers.

“The Department listened carefully to the input of students, families, and higher education institutions, made substantial changes to leadership and operations at Federal Student Aid, and is taking a new approach this year that will significantly improve the FAFSA experience,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in the news release.

Thursday, August 8, 2024, 9:07 am

Link copied. sixteen- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in school board elections in oakland and berkeley.

For the first time in the history of California, 16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in school board elections in Oakland and Berkeley this November.

Voters approved measures in 2016 and 2020 allowing these teenagers to vote. But it has taken years for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters to approve a system to allow these young people to register and vote only in school board elections and not in other elections. Teenage advocates and the community organization Oakland Kids First have been pushing for the county to implement youth voting ever since the measures were approved.

If a 16- or 17-year-old wants to register to vote in the school board elections, they must use the pre-registration system to register to vote as a "youth voter."

Five small municipalities in Maryland also permit youth voting for school elections.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 7:24 am

Link copied. deadline for spending homeless student relief looms.

Many districts are racing against the clock to earmark their share of $800 million in one-time, Covid-related federal aid for homeless students ahead of a September deadline, EdWeek reported , working with advocates to nail down the most urgent priorities.

School districts have until Sept. 30 to commit the funds, which must be spent by Jan. 31, 2025, unless the state applies for an extended liquidation waiver , which would give administrators until March 2026 to spend the money.

 The aid, part of the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, gave schools resources to identify students experiencing homelessness and to help overcome barriers to attendance, engagement and academic success, advocates said, EdWeek reported . Congress doled out this funding in addition to nearly $190 billion in general K-12 aid known as ESSER—Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024, 7:22 am

Link copied. early childhood education apprenticeships gain traction.

Only a smattering of states had apprenticeship programs in early childhood education a few years ago. Now, 35 states have an apprenticeship program for child care and early childhood education, and more are developing such programs, according to a report published by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), EdSurge reported.

In 2021, early childhood education was among the five fastest-growing occupations in terms of apprenticeship, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

“There’s just been an explosion,” says Linda Smith, who wrote the BPC’s apprenticeship report last summer before joining the Buffett Early Childhood Institute as director of policy, EdSurge reported. “It is happening all over this country.”

Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 10:59 am

Link copied. proposed california legislation could impact school lunches nationwide.

Legislation that would ban food containing six synthetic dyes from being served in California schools could impact what kids eat nationwide, said its author, Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, at a news conference this morning.

Assembly Bill 2316 , also known as the California School Food Safety Act, would prohibit California schools from offering foods containing red dye  40, yellow dye 5, blue dye 1, green dye 3, blue dye 2 and yellow dye 6. The vibrant dyes are typically found in baked goods, chips, soda and candy, and do not impact the taste of food, Gabriel said.

Research has shown that these six synthetic food dyes can cause neurobehavioral disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder,  in children, according to Gabriel. These same dyes are required to have a warning label in Europe, he said.

“It just makes no sense when the superintendent and others are out there, our teachers are working so hard to help our students achieve, that we would be putting all this effort and energy and love into our young people, and then feeding them some food at lunch or at recess that is actually going to undermine all of that good work,” said Gabriel, who was joined at the news conference by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.

The legislation would be the first of its kind in the nation. If passed, the bill would go into effect Dec. 31, 2027.

“We firmly believe that this bill, if signed into law, will have a national impact,” Gabriel said. “And we believe that it will prompt nationwide changes to popular foods marketing toward children. We know that because of how supply chains work, because of how food manufacturers work. We think it's unlikely that folks are going to produce one version of their product for California and a different version for Kansas.”

The prohibition would not include food sold as part of a school fundraising event, if the sale takes place on campus at least a half-hour after the school day or is sold off campus.

The bill is among hundreds that must pass the Legislature by an Aug. 31 deadline. Gov. Gavin Newsom will then have about a month to sign or veto the bills, Gabriel said.

“It is crunch time here in Sacramento,” Gabriel said. "We have returned from our recess. We have less than one month left of our legislative session. And this bill has so far passed through the California Assembly with a strong bipartisan vote. It has passed every single policy committee. It passed the Senate Education Committee with a unanimous bipartisan vote. And we now stand, just steps away from Governor Newsom's desk.”

Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 10:34 am

Link copied. chancellor of los angeles community college district reportedly to step down.

Francisco Rodriguez, chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District, plans to step down from the role on Nov. 2, he said in an email to top administrators, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Rodriguez said in the email he planned to step down to help his father with his “health challenges” and spend more time with family, according to the Times, which obtained the email.

The Times noted that Rodriguez’s decision comes months after the district’s Academic Senate approved a vote of no confidence against Rodriguez and the district's board of trustees. The Senate’s concerns included the district’s response to sexual harassment allegations and what the Senate described as “insufficient mechanisms to prevent public corruption.”

At the same time, his supporters credit him with hiring more full-time faculty, increasing racial and gender diversity among district staff and prioritizing initiatives to increase the academic success of students of color, among other accomplishments, the Times reported.

The Times reported that the announcement was surprising to many in the district because Rodriguez was given a new four-year contract last fall. He has served for a decade as chancellor of the district, which includes nine colleges and is the largest community college district in the nation.

“It has been my extreme honor and privilege to work with you, and I will forever be grateful for your confidence and your collegiality,” Rodriguez wrote in the email, according to the Times. “I am very proud of the work that we have performed together on behalf of the very talented and inspiring students we serve.”

Tuesday, August 6, 2024, 7:26 am

Link copied. uc santa cruz considering layoffs to balance budget.

UC Santa Cruz officials are considering laying off employees as part of a plan to trim $17 million from the university’s 2024-25 budget, reported LookOut Santa Cruz . 

The university, which had a $100 million deficit last fiscal year, has had increased employee costs and stagnant revenues. 

USCS Chief Financial Officer Ed Reiskin told LookOut Santa Cruz that layoffs were likely, although he couldn't say how many people would be impacted, how they would be distributed or when the jobs would be eliminated.

Monday, August 5, 2024, 10:31 am

Link copied. test scores for charter students in urban areas rise, new study shows.

A study of charter schools in Massachusetts shows charter students in the state are significantly more likely to enroll in a four-year college and earn a degree compared with their noncharter peers, The 74 reported .

The study, released last week through the National Bureau of Economic Research, also found that students in urban-area charter schools have higher test scores while those enrolled outside cities actually see their scores fall.

According to The 74, Massachusetts has been cited by some researchers as the highest-performing state in the country.

Students in urban charters saw scores in math and English rise after two years of attending their charter school, The 74 reported, while scores for those in nonurban charters fell.

Monday, August 5, 2024, 10:30 am

Link copied. could talking about math to young children improve skills.

Research over the past decade shows that the more parents talk about math to their children, the stronger math skills they had, according to The Hechinger Report .

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine looked at 22 studies conducted between 2010 and 2022.

The link between parents talking to their kids about math and a child’s math skills was strongest between ages 3 and 5, Hechinger reported. During these preschool years, parents who didn’t talk as much about numbers and shapes tended to have children with lower math achievement and vice versa.

However, according to Hechinger, none of the studies analyzed proves that talking to your preschooler about math causes their math skills to improve.  

Stronger math skills could be the result of other things that wealthier and more educated parents are giving their kids, such as nutritious meals, sleep, visits to museums and vacations, Hechinger reported. 

According to Hechinger, parents who brought up numbers or shapes in natural conversations had children who scored better on math tests.

Sunday, August 4, 2024, 8:22 pm

Link copied. california community college journalist killed in ukraine.

A Bay Area community college journalist who wanted to be a war correspondent and was filing stories from war-torn Ukraine was killed there last week, according to news reports.

Titawny Cook, 41, a former U.S. Marine, had traveled to Kyiv last year with the backing of Chabot College in Hayward , the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Cook’s mother was notified by the U.S. State Department on July 26 that her son was found unconscious in the street and later pronounced dead at a hospital, the newspaper reported, adding that the location and exact circumstances were unclear.

His mother told the Chronicle her son may have had issues with people he knew in Kyiv.

Chabot professor Thomas Lothian, who advises the school’s newspaper, The Spectator, was leery of sponsoring Cook’s travel but said that he and school officials approved it because Cook was an adult and had clearly articulated his desires and career path.

Cook had served with the Marines in Iraq. It was not immediately clear if he saw combat. He needed the college’s backing in order to obtain press credentials to enter Ukraine.

He filed several stories for the Spectator, including one in 2023 on the state of life in Ukraine one year after it was invaded by Russia.

Cook wanted a “reset” after leaving the military and was serious about a journalism career, Lothian said. The professor told the Chronicle that he now regrets his decision to send Cook into a war zone.

A Spectator reporter who profiled Cook for the paper told the Chronicle, “he was fearless, honestly.”

In a statement released Sunday night the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists expressed condolences to Cook’s family and Chabot College.

“Like many journalists, Mr. Cook used journalism to explore something they find so fascinating, so compelling, they have to share it with the world,” said Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, the chapter’s president. “We mourn him and all journalists who have died pursuing truth.”

Friday, August 2, 2024, 9:23 am

Link copied. audit finds six colleges underreported crime on campuses.

A state audit released this week found that six California colleges inaccurately reported campus crime.

California State University Chico, UC Santa Cruz, Imperial Valley College, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Orange Coast College and the University of San Diego failed to comply with federal requirements, according to the Mercury News .

The federal Clery Act requires that colleges receiving federal financial funding collect information on violent crimes, hate crimes, criminal offenses and arrests involving weapons, drug and alcohol violations and that they disseminate an annual report to employees and students.

Universities that do not comply with the law can be fined up to $70,000 for each violation, according to the Mercury News. In 2020, the U.S. Department of Education fined UC Berkeley $2.35 million for violating the Clery Act.

Friday, August 2, 2024, 7:34 am

Link copied. fresno and san jose csu campuses to offer pk-3 credential.

Two ​California State University campuses will soon be offering teacher preparation programs that lead to the new PK-3 Early Childhoo d Education Specialist Instruction Credential.

San José State will offer its PK-3 credential program this fall and Fresno State will begin to offer the program in the summer of 2025. Eventually, 17 additional campuses and CalState TEACH, the university's online program, will offer programs leading to the credential.

The PK-3 credential authorizes teachers to offer instruction in preschool through third grade. It requires child development and early childhood education coursework specific to the development of a young child, according to the university.

The credential was established to meet the need for teachers created by California’s phase-in of universal transitional kindergarten.

“CSU is proud to once again lead the way in producing teachers that will change the trajectory of our children’s lives and elevate the early childhood education workforce,” said Shireen Pavri, assistant vice chancellor of educator and leadership programs at CSU. “We are thrilled about the potential of this new PK-3 early childhood education credential to provide a strong and equitable early learning foundation for our youngest and most diverse learners in the state.”

The San Diego County Office of Education and Riverside County Office of Education are the only other institutions that have received approval by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to offer PK-3 credential programs.

Thursday, August 1, 2024, 9:41 am

Link copied. coalition defends undocumented kids’ right to attend school.

Three dozen immigrant rights groups, education and legal advocates, and the nation’s two largest teachers unions have formed a coalition to defend the right of undocumented immigrant children to a free public education.

As reported by Chalkbeat , the coalition, Education for All , was launched in May, in response to a push by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, which is calling on states to charge undocumented children tuition to attend public school. The Heritage Foundation said doing so could lead to lawsuits, which would then push the Supreme Court to reconsider a 1982 decision, Plyler v. Doe.

That decision protected the right of all children to a free public education, regardless of their immigration status.

Chalkbeat reports that the coalition plans to watch for violations of Plyler v. Doe at school board meetings and in state legislation, in addition to educating families, school officials and lawmakers about the Plyler decision.

“We want to take everything seriously,” said Will Dempster, the vice president of strategic communications for the National Immigration Law Center, the organization leading the coalition. They’re testing the boundaries of what’s possible.”

Thursday, August 1, 2024, 9:19 am

Link copied. if you have student loan debt, check your email, officials say.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday it will send out emails to student loan borrowers on the status of loan forgiveness and to let them know they have until Aug. 30 to opt out of the program.

The details of the loan forgiveness have not yet been finalized.  If the rules are finalized as proposed, the program could provide relief to 25 million people, according to the Biden administration. They include borrowers who owe more now than they did at the start of repayment, borrowers who have been in repayment for decades, borrowers who are otherwise eligible for loan forgiveness but have not yet applied, and those who are enrolled in low-financial value programs.

However, the program has been challenged in court.

“Today, the Biden-Harris administration takes another step forward in our drive to deliver student debt relief to borrowers who’ve been failed by a broken system,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in a statement. “These latest steps will mark the next milestone in our efforts to help millions of borrowers who’ve been buried under a mountain of student loan interest, or who took on debt to pay for college programs that left them worse off financially, those who have been paying their loans for twenty or more years, and many others."

Wednesday, July 31, 2024, 8:22 am

Link copied. parents continue to explore alternative schooling, survey shows.

Amid declining enrollments in public schools, a new survey by the online education service Outschool explores why some parents seek  alternative schooling options in the post-pandemic era.

Over 1,000 parents of school-aged children in the U.S. were surveyed for this analysis. When asked, “Would you or are you considering homeschooling,” about 35% of public school parents said yes. Among the reasons cited are the rise in bullying at schools and concerns over school shootings and overtesting. 

  Of the ranks of parents who said they were unsatisfied with their child’s current school experience, 44% described bullying and other social issues, 35% cited concern over school shootings and gun violence, and 35% said there is too much emphasis on teaching to the test. Roughly 40% of public school parents also said they are concerned about the role of AI in education. 

Link copied. Online education heavyweight 2U files for bankruptcy

Online education company 2U has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Viewed as a pioneer in online education, the company teamed up with schools including the University of Southern California, Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to design and operate online courses in fields such as nursing and social work . 

But 2U struggled in recent years amid new competition and increased regulations. It also had a highly leveraged balance sheet with looming loan-repayment deadlines. The company went public a decade ago and hasn’t posted an annual profit since then. 

The company has roughly 260 partner institutions globally, enrolling about 70,000 students in degree and nondegree programs, the Journal reported. Universities oversee admissions and faculty, while 2U handles marketing, course design and logistics for clinical placements. Some institutions, including USC, have pared down their partnerships with 2U over worries about program quality and student costs.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows businesses to reorganize and remain in business under court protection and supervision.

Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 8:23 am

Link copied. students, professors say cheating will be easier with ai, survey finds.

Students and professors believe cheating will increase with generative artificial intelligence tools, according to a new survey that Inside Higher Ed reported on . 

Based on the survey results released to Inside Higher Ed on Monday, 68% of 850 polled instructors said AI will have a negative impact on academic integrity. 

Nearly half, or 47%, of the over 2,000 students surveyed said cheating was already easier with AI, Inside Higher Ed reported. 

“It’s not surprising that it’s increased because of the fast evolution of these generative AI tools and their wide availability,” said Lyssa Vanderbeek, vice president of the firm that published the survey.

And 55% percent of instructors and students feel that more students will cheat in the next three years with the help of AI. 

But Vanderbeek has also seen conversations about cheating increase. “One thing we’ve noticed with instructors is discussing in the classroom what cheating is and normalizing getting help — and looking at productive ways to get help…”

Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 8:20 am

Link copied. thousands of uc workers expected to protest wednesday.

Thousands of University of California service and patient care workers, represented by the AFSCME Local 3299 union, will protest Wednesday, the union said in an emailed media release on Monday. 

Contracts for patient care workers are set to expire as negotiations with the university have stalled, the release said. After over six months of negotiations, California’s Public Employment Relations Board declared an impasse between the university and union.   

The union, which represents more than 30,000 workers , has asked the university to raise wages and find solutions to address the cost of living and lack of affordable housing affecting the university’s “frontline workers.” 

Affordable housing is needed for the workers to live near their jobs on campus, the union’s president said. Workers have reportedly driven several hours or slept in their cars in order to work, according to The Sacramento Bee . Based on research mentioned by the union, the cost of living in areas with a UC campus is up to 47% more than the average for other communities with college campuses.

In response to the impasse, thousands of workers and students are expected to protest with demonstrations and rallies across the state.

Monday, July 29, 2024, 9:53 am

Link copied. more 4-year-olds are in tk, but the percentage of those eligible has decreased.

In the past two years, the number of 4-year-olds in transitional kindergarten has gone up from 75,000 to 151,000  — but the percentage of children who are eligible for TK has fallen, CalMatters reported . 

“The trends we see in the percentages of eligible students whose families are enrolling in TK mirror the trends described by (CalMatters’) data set,” Department of Education spokesperson Elizabeth Sanders told CalMatters. 

“As we expand the number of students and families eligible, we expect the percentage of families who choose to participate to hover around 70% and to increase following full implementation.”

With TK enrollment growing, Sanders said she feels optimistic. 

“The fact that we have doubled the number of individual students participating in the program during these implementation years makes us very proud,” Sanders said. 

Not all districts are offering TK at this point and “basic aid” districts — which tend to be wealthy — have been slower in their rollout because they often opt out of state funding. 

Larkspur-Corte Madera School District, for example, does not offer TK and says it cannot without help from the state. 

Having access to the necessary facilities is also challenging for districts; meanwhile, many parents still prefer to send their children to traditional preschools. 

“The existing preschool system has served low-income kids, kids of color very well,” Roslyn Broadnax, a parent who works for Cadre-LA, told CalMatters. “If there’s little difference between preschool and TK, why should a parent move their child to TK? It doesn’t make a lot of sense.”

Staffing has also been a hurdle for districts. While many have found enough credentialed teachers, finding classroom assistants has been more difficult. 

At the beginning of the 2022-23 academic year, districts reported a 12% vacancy rate, CalMatters reported. 

Monday, July 29, 2024, 8:57 am

Link copied. pasadena city college opens housing for transitional-age foster youth.

Pasadena City College will provide students who are transitioning out of foster care with studio housing units, LAist reported . 

First Place for Youth CEO Thomas Lee told LAist that it can be difficult for foster youth to graduate due to insufficient housing, transportation and economic resources. 

Among transitional youth, less than 10% of those who attended college completed a degree, a report found. 

“As we call it in the world of child welfare, they always have the 'cliff' staring at them when all the services and supports kind of fall away, and they have to be able to do it on their own,” Lee told LAist.

He added that he hopes to create a dorm-style experience. 

“When people are going to community colleges, they are not able to enjoy the community that you find almost naturally embedded at a four-year institution,” he told LAist. 

“By having youth living in close proximity to the college campus, it gives them greater access to be able to leverage that community, to leverage the support of their professors, as well as all of the campus support services, without having to travel an inordinate amount of space and time in order to receive that.”

In the next two years, he said, they hope to create another 16-unit complex. 

Friday, July 26, 2024, 11:09 am

Link copied. former anaheim school administrator sentenced to prison for $17 million embezzlement.

A former Magnolia School District education official was sentenced on Thursday to nearly six years in prison for embezzling almost $16.7 million from the school system, the Orange County Register reported . 

According to the Register, Jorge Armando Contreras pleaded guilty in March to embezzling the public school funds from August 2016 to July 2023 as well as to theft and intentional misapplication of funds from an organization receiving federal funds. 

In Magnolia School District, 81% of the students are considered socioeconomically disadvantaged, the U.S. Attorney’s Office noted. 

Contreras had worked in the district since July 2006, was promoted to director of fiscal services in March 2013 and then to senior director of fiscal services in April 2017, the Register reported. In the senior director position, he managed student body and school district bank accounts. 

He reportedly used the embezzled funds to purchase a home in Yorba Linda, a 2021 BMW, 57 designer bags, jewelry, designer clothes and shoes and eight bottles of Clase Azul Ultra luxury tequila — $7.7 million worth of property seized by authorities. 

In addition to his prison sentence, Contreras must pay restitution for the nearly $16.7 million embezzled, the Register reported.

Friday, July 26, 2024, 9:53 am

Link copied. what one teacher of color says she needs from her peers.

As part of an EdSurge series documenting diverse educator experiences , Fatema Elbakoury, a teacher of color, described what she needs from her white peers to thrive as an educator. She said she needs them to seek consent, build empathy and show humility. 

Elbakoury, an English language arts teacher in San Francisco, detailed how students of color have retreated to her or were sent to her because of a situation with a white teacher. 

“... students came into my class at a time when I didn’t teach them,” she said. “When these students arrived, they told me this teacher ‘sucks’ and how mean that teacher was to them. Later, I saw a message from that same teacher whose class they had left saying, “(The students) are on their way to your class.”

In such a situation, Elbakoury said the other teacher should have sought consent from her. 

“What if, instead, I was given an opportunity to share my approach to student relationships with that teacher so they could work on their practice?” she said. “I would have felt like my autonomy and humanity were being honored because I would get to advocate for not only the student but myself.”

Elbakoury also wants her white colleagues to remember that, as a teacher, she is just as tired as they are, struggling to figure out how to support students. 

Putting the responsibility of supporting those students onto Elbakoury made her feel as though her peers had no empathy for her, she said.

Elbakoury said she wants white teachers to apologize as well. 

“Specifically,” she said, “I would want their sorry to sound like this: 'I was racist. I pushed this student on to you because I didn’t and still don’t know how to support them. I wasn’t thinking about how hard this would be for you. I am ready to do the work to regain their trust and yours. How can I do that?’”

With consent, empathy and humility, Elbakoury said, teachers of color will be able to work in a safe, supportive environment that they will want to remain in.

Friday, July 26, 2024, 9:52 am

Link copied. school that promotes ‘personalized learning’ opens in clovis.

Learn4Life, a network of dozens of public charter high schools across the state and nation , has opened a Clovis campus, according to an emailed announcement about the school’s Friday ribbon-cutting ceremony. 

The Clovis location, Learn4Life - Crescent View West High School, will tailor instruction to students’ needs, talents and goals, just as other campuses have done, the announcement said. 

Based on EdSource reporting , Learn4Life schools focus on one-on-one instruction, flexible scheduling and personalized learning. 

For example, at the Hanford location, staff members create individual action and academic plans to determine students’ academic needs as well as their personal strengths and weaknesses and career aspirations. Students receive “layers of support” through tutoring; one-on-one, small group and traditional class instruction; three school counselors and an onsite therapist; resiliency programs, such as yoga or meditation; and classes that teach organizational skills and coping mechanisms. 

According to the announcement,“Learn4life meets the students where they are,” while providing resources of tutoring, career and life skills training and mental health support, such as trauma-resilient trained educators who will provide “a supportive and innovative learning environment” at the Clovis campus.

Thursday, July 25, 2024, 10:41 am

Link copied. congressional republicans ask biden administration to hand over fafsa documents.

The House of Representatives Committee on Education issued a subpoena Thursday requiring the Biden administration to submit documents about the FAFSA rollout by Aug. 8, according to USA Today .

Changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form caused a huge delay for many students to find out whether they qualified for financial aid this year.

Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolin, said the U.S. Department of Education was not fully cooperating with federal investigations. USA Today added that many congressional Republicans also support cutting funding from the office that oversees the FAFSA.

The Department of Education said staffers have provided hundreds of documents to comply with oversight requests from Congress and the Government Accountability Office, which has launched two separate investigations into the rollout.

Wednesday, July 24, 2024, 3:29 pm

Link copied. cal state names interim president of sonoma state university.

Emily F. Cutrer, the president emerita of Texas A&M University-Texarkana, will take over as the interim president of Sonoma State University during a moment of “enormous financial pressures,” the California State University announced.

Cutrer immediately follows Nathan Evans, who has served as acting president since May. Evans filled a vacancy left by the university’s previous president, Mike Lee, who retired in May  after he was placed on administrative leave by the university system following a memo in which he announced reaching an agreement on divestment from Israel with protesters.

Cutrer previously served in academic affairs roles at California State University San Marcos. She is expected to hold her new role at Sonoma State starting Aug. 1 while the board of trustees seeks a permanent president over the next year.

In a statement announcing the appointment , CSU Chancellor Mildred García said a combination of falling enrollment and increasing labor and general operating costs had strained Sonoma State’s finances. García said she has instructed Cutrer to find ways to reduce the school's costs.

“Thus, I have directed interim President Cutrer — an innovative leader with long-demonstrated expertise in developing programmatic synergies and administrative efficiencies — to take steps to bring the university’s academic programs and administrative infrastructure in line with its financial resources,” she said. “To this end, I have asked her to immediately establish agreements to enable the administrative infrastructure of Sonoma State to be offered through CSU shared services to reduce operating costs. I have also directed her to evaluate Sonoma State’s academic programs within the context of the university’s financial reality, while maintaining the programs’ academic excellence.”

Cutrer will receive a $381,408 salary and a monthly housing allowance of $5,000, the same as the previous president. She will also receive a $1,000 per month auto allowance as well as other benefits and reimbursements.

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The Katsina State Police Command has announced the rescue of 30 kidnapped victims and recovered one AK-47 rifle after raiding terrorists’ enclaves and foiling various kidnap attempts in Dutsinma, Safana, Jibia and Malumfashi Local Government Areas of the state.

The Police Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Abubakar Aliyu, in a statement issued yesterday said seven of the victims were rescued after raiding the terrorists’ hideouts between Dutsinma and Safana on August 17, while three were freed after foiling kidnap attempt on Jibian-Maje in Jibia LGA.

He explained that 20 persons who were kidnapped at Yaba village in Malumfashi Local Government Area on August 20 were also rescued after a fierce gun duel between the police operatives and the marauding hoodlums.

The statement read in part: “In a swift and decisive rescue operation, the Katsina State Police Command raided a bandits’ hideout situated between Dutsinma and Safana LGAs on August 21, rescuing seven hostages kidnapped from two villages in Dutsinma LGA on August 17 and recovering one AK-47 rifle.

“The intelligence-led operation conducted by a combined team of police operatives attached to Dutsinma Police Divisional headquarters and members of vigilante led by the DPO, CSP Bello Abdullahi Gusau, was carried out at about 1330 hours.

“The rescued hostages, who were kidnapped from Farar Kasa and Shanga villages in Dutsinma LGA, were successfully rescued unharmed by the team and rushed to the nearest hospital for medical attention. 

Also, one AK-47 rifle was recovered during the course of the operation. The investigation is still ongoing with a view to arresting the fleeing suspects.”

It added: “In a similar date at about 0005 hours, a distress call was received at the Jibia Divisional Police headquarters that bandits in their numbers armed with dangerous weapons such as the AK-47 rifle, shooting sporadically, concurrently attacked Jibian Maje, Nasarawa, and Lankwasau villages of Jibia LGA.

“Upon receipt of the report, the DPO Jibia mobilised teams of operatives and responded to the scene where the teams gallantly engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel. The teams successfully foiled all three attacks and rescued three kidnapped victims. However, the victims were rushed to the hospital for medical attention as they sustained minor injuries due to the attack.

“Additionally, on August 20, 2024, at about 1958 hours, a distress call was received at the Malumfashi Divisional headquarters that armed bandits in their numbers, wielding dangerous weapons, attacked Yaba village, Malumfashi LGA, kidnapped 20 persons, and rustled five cows. Upon receipt of the report, promptly, DPO Malumfashi marshalled a team of operatives and responded to the scene, where they intercepted the hoodlums at the outskirts of the village while trying to escape with their victims.

“The team valorously engaged the hoodlums in a gun and succeeded in foiling the attack, rescuing all the kidnapped victims and recovering the rustled animals as the hoodlums escaped the scene with various degrees of bullet wounds.”

He, however, said efforts were being intensified by operatives of the Command to ensure the arrest of the fleeing terrorists.

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Chief Justice Martha Koome called for the consolidation of all the bursary programmes into one fund in order to facilitate free education in the country.

President William Ruto has held a meeting with student leaders from various institutions of higher learning. He presided over the meeting at the state house.

The Ministry of Education has directed all public universities to allow admission of all qualified students. The new funding model had left many worried.

Teachers' unions have insisted on the going on of their nationwide strike beginning Monday, August 26, after they failed to reach an agrement with the TSC.

President William Ruto has been awarded a degree in Doctor of Humane Letters in Leadership from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton in Nandi county.

Higher Education Principal Secretary Beatrice Inyangala revealed that the new funding model is grouped into five bands depending on the family's income level.

The government has ordered universities to issue first-year students with updated fee structures by Monday, August 19, following a directive from William Ruto.

The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) CEO Charles Ong'ondo has apologised for publishing misleading content in its Form 3 Biology textbook.

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Today’s School Assembly Headlines (23rd August): Putin Meets China’s Premier Li, PM Modi’s Ukraine Visit Is Not Just About Geopolitics, India Wants To Upgrade Its Warships!

23rd august 2024, news headlines in english for school assembly: this article will provide you with the latest news headlines for school assembly. the news headlines will cover all the major topics ranging from national, international, political and sports..

23rd August, School News Headlines Today: An assembly is a gathering of a part of the school where students can conduct various programmes and also talk about the latest happenings around the world. Well, Assemblies often cover a range of topics that you might not come across in your regular classes. 

Headlines help the students to become aware of the latest happenings around the world. These headlines provide the students with a snapshot of important information that can range from global issues and local news to school events and achievements. 

Hearing out the important headlines can help to improve analytical skills. Speaking the news headlines in school assemblies can help the students to know about current events and important issues, which can make them feel more connected to the border community and global happenings.

International News Headlines For School Assembly

• Putin meets China’s Premier Li as Moscow and Beijing deepen their relations- The Hindu
• Big blow to Punjabis, entry of work permit holders in Canada closed!- Source- Rozana Spokesman English 
• Sri Lanka announces visa-free access to Indians, nationals from 34 other countries from October 31- Source- The Economic Times
• US Presidential Election: Kamala Harris would be ‘president of joy’, says Bill Clinton; calls Trump ‘the other guy’- Financial Express
• Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Vietnam's new leader To Lam; cross-border railways MoU inked- The Economic Times

National News Headlines For School Assembly

• PM Modi’s Ukraine visit is not just about geopolitics. India wants to upgrade its warships- The Print
• Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Polls 2024: NC's Farooq Abdullah announces alliance with Congress, seat-sharing finalised- Business Today 
• The government can collect caste-wise data on OBCs by adding an extra column in the census questionnaire: Congress- Deccan Herald
• Thalapathy Vijay Reveals TVK Flag; Critics Draw Parallels with Spain’s Flag- Source- The Times Of India
• Full emergency declared at Trivandrum airport after Air India flight from Mumbai receives bomb threat- The Hindu

Sports News Headlines For School Assembly

• India's tour of England 2025: BCCI announces full IND vs ENG schedule, Test match venues and dates- Source- The Hindustan Times
• Milan Rathnayake shines on debut to drag Sri Lanka to 236- Source- Cricbuzz
• India's Paris Olympics Star Archana Kamath, 24, Quits Table Tennis, Would Rather Study In US- Source- NDTV Sports
• Cristiano Ronaldo Shatters World Record, Just Hours After Launching His YouTube Channel- Source- NDTV Sports
• After Silver At Olympics, Neeraj Chopra Takes Field In Lausanne For Diamond League- Source- NDTV Sports

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