Students have been lagging behind the state’s expectations and national norms for years, even as spending has climbed.

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Historically, the annual process of writing a state budget has often stumbled over how much money California should spend on ...

Increased enrollment and improved literacy rates highlight cooperative efforts at Heart of the Lakes Elementary.

Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s ...

The man told store employees that he already had mortar explosives with him and was planning to use them during the protests ...

The Legislature's and governor's budget proposals agree to spend $80 billion on schools. There've been few discussions about how to boost students' persistently low test scores.

Carmela Calderon Ching is an elementary specialist at Pasadena Unified School District, focusing on literacy. She is a ...

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

Let’s do it!” That was Alexis Johnson’s reaction when she saw professional learning opportunities focused on computational ...

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters and sounds); phonemic awareness (the ability to distinguish a language's sounds from one another); fluency (the ability to read quickly ...