Mallika Seshadri

More than 80% of 1,000 surveyed Los Angeles County voters, parents and students showed support for trade classes that can prepare students for careers — and expressed that the skills are valuable irrespective of whether a student opts to attend college, The 74 reported.

Administrators at Laguna Beach High School have launched an investigation into a series of “inappropriate” images created using artificial intelligence, the Los Angeles Times reported.

High school junior Maya Shtangrud may have given up on her childhood dream of learning to play the violin — but now, serving as an arts justice fellow at the ACLU of Southern California, she remains steadfast in her advocacy for arts education.

The San Diego Unified School District has approved an affordable housing project on extra school property, the San Diego Union Tribune reported.

A group of Spanish-speaking mothers, largely monolingual, have created a group dedicated to advocating for improved student achievement across the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Students in the Lincoln Unified School District are learning from an integrative curriculum called TeachRock that uses the history of popular music and culture, The Stockton Record reported.

Tens of thousands of high school seniors are placed on waitlists for schools in the UC system — and UC San Diego admitted the highest number of waitlisted students in 2023-24, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A grassroots campaign recalled two conservative members of the Orange Unified School District in an election that cost more than half a million dollars.

Providing parents with lists of school supplies to purchase — or incorporating advertisements for school supplies retailers in school publications – is a violation of the California education code and should stop, according to a new report from the Marin County Civil Grand Jury titled “A Free Public Education Includes School Supplies,” the Marin Independent Journal reported.

Two commencement speakers slated to address graduates of the USC’s Rossier School of Education have backed out to boycott the university’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, including the arrest of 93 individuals, the Los Angeles Times reported.