Berkeley Law’s Edley Launches Educational Institute

Courtesy of Berkeley News   Berkeley Law professor and former dean Christopher Edley has launched a nonprofit organization that aims to use education and related social...

Guardian Scholars Program Gives Students Opportunity to Change the Course of Their Lives

By Steve Hockensmith, SFSU News   Rosanna Fajardo (B.A., ’15) says that the California foster care system used to have a clear message for the kids...

Sausalito Woman’s Club Scholarships for Local Students

The Sausalito Woman’s Club’s Scholarship Recognition Fund is providing awards for students to attend colleges, universities, vocational and art schools.   The woman’s club is associated...

Report: California Is Failing Black Students

By Manny Otiko and Charlene Muhammad California Black Media   The California Legislative Black Caucus is preparing strategies for accountability after a new report revealed Black...

Pastor Turns Food Desert into Garden for the Poor

By Terry Turner , courtesy of Good News Network   A North Carolina preacher was nominated for a top hero prize after he created a nutritional...

Stanford Study: ‘Culturally Relevant’ Teaching Boosts GPA, Attendance for At-Risk Youth,

Courtesy of Atlanta Blackstar If you don’t know about your past, you lack a blueprint for the future. And a new study suggests just that.  ...

Students Protest Georgia’s Admissions Ban on Undocumented Students

On Monday, undocumented immigrant students and documented student allies representing 12 universities staged classroom sit-ins at three Georgia public colleges that ban undocumented students from admission:...

Sign Up Now for State’s Teen Summer School for the Arts

The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) is inviting all talented and motivated high school students to apply for admission to the 2016 summer...

UC President Urges Community College Students to Consider UC

Roughly 350,000 community college students received a personal email from UC President Janet Napolitano last week, encouraging them to begin thinking about the next stage of...

Fremont High Students Fed Up with Unresponsive Administration

Fremont High School students, teachers and other community members are angry and organizing for change at their school after a security camera video surfaced showing a...

Combined Effects of Maternal Obesity and Diabetes Raise Autism Risks

By Shefali Luthra , KHN News   While the incidence of autism spectrum disorder has increased in recent years, what’s behind it remains relatively mysterious and...

PG&E Announces $1 Million “Better Together” Scholarships for Local Students

As part of its ongoing efforts to promote education, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) recently announced the launch of its fourth annual PG&E Better Together...

Anaheim Union Superintendent Aims to Serve All Students

By Anh Do, L.A. Times Anaheim Supt. Michael Matsuda has a special connection the district and its homeless students

Opinion: “Common Enrollment” Is a Misfit for the Problems That Plague Oakland Schools

By Roseann Torres   As a Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education member for the past three years representing District 5, I have remained...

Black Employees File Complaint Against CA Department of Education

By Manny Otiko/California Black Media   Dr. Shirley Thornton, a retired educator and colonel in the United States Army Reserves, remembers reaching a “glass ceiling” when...

UC Applications Break Records for 12th Straight Year

More than 206,000 students applied to attend the University of California as undergraduates in fall 2016, an overall jump of 6.4 percent over fall 2015 and...

Partnership Helps Offset Housing Costs for New San Francisco Teachers

A cohort of new San Francisco teachers is eligible for as many as three years of assistance to overcome one of the most significant hurdles to...

Thanksgiving Food Distribution for Middle School Families

United for Success Academy, a public middle school in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, hosted a Thanksgiving food distribution Wednesday, Nov. 18, put on by Safe...

Two Universities Make Indigenous Courses a Graduation Requirement for Graduation

Nancy Macdonald, Macleans   Some universities make students take a math course before they get an arts degree, just as some engineering students are now being...

Teachers Say “Common Enrollment” Would Funnel More Students to Charters

The local teachers’ union and school activists are raising concerns about a proposal, backed by the school district’s administration, to dramatically change how new students are...

Oakland Schools’ PR Chief Receives New $192,000 Contract

Isaac Kos-Read, chief of Communications and Public Affairs for the Oakland Unified School District, recently signed a $192,000-a-year-contract, extending his previous contract for two years.  ...

SF State Creates New Degree in Environmental Science

By Jonathan Morales , SFSU News   Students hoping to work as environmental scientists at government agencies or other organizations have a new option at SF...

National Director of Mothers in Charge Speaks at St. Columba

  Dorothy Johnson-Speight (right), the National Director of Mothers in Charge, spoke to the congregation of St. Columba Church in Berkeley at the church’s Saints Day...

Community Campaign to Save Planetarium Shows at Chabot Space & Science Center

The Eastbay Astronomical Society is launching a program to restore the Zeiss planetarium projector at the Chabot Space & Science Center.   According to the Zeiss...

Hundreds of Students at Stanford University Stand In Solidarity with Mizzou