By Umair Vaid Assembly Bill 420 was signed on September 27, 2014 by Governor Jerry Brown, making California the first state in the nation to...
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has announced steps to address the pervasive issue of campus sexual assault on California’s college campuses. Joined by University of...
West Oakland’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School is on the rise. A highly involved administration and staff, along with growing parent involvement and community support,...
Students at Fremont High School learned the importance of money management from two men with ties to both the Bay Area and the Oakland Raiders. ...
Walking into the dance studio at El Cerrito High School (ECHS), you can feel the positivity from students who are welcoming, polite, and enthusiastic with a...
By Richard Johnson, Folsom Prison Letters Incarceration can be a very difficult and demanding situation for anyone. But there is potentially a bright side if one...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press SALLY HO, Associated Press NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at Cuyama Valley...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press SALLY HO, Associated Press NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at Cuyama Valley...
Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) celebrated a new partnership with Intel that will expand computer science and engineering offerings in the district and is designed to...
By Troy Williams Prominent members of the African-American community gathered at Lake Chalet in Oakland on Saturday, April 25 to honor the lifetime achievements, teachings,...
Oakland teachers have voted to authorize a strike against the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) if they do not settle their contract by the time school...
For the third year in a row, a De Anza High School senior has been named a Gates Millennium Scholar, earning recognition as one of the...
By Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley News The Earth could use a tough litigator like Radhika Kannan, who was just named UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior. She...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Call this the year of the test. Or, at least the year of standardized test mania. Standardized test...
Some people are looking to gain something for their own benefit, with no consideration for anyone else. They have no sympathy, or empathy for others....
by Johnny Taylor, MIT, MBA Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Over the last group of weeks we have been covering Technology in...
by Johnny Taylor, MIT, MBA Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Over the last group of weeks we have been covering Technology in...
(Politico) – Last week, a parade of educators filed into an Atlanta courtroom to be sentenced for their roles in the test-cheating scandal that has...
The jailing of eight Black Atlanta educators is an outrage matched only by the racist tests they were forced to give and the racist conditions in...
By Brenda McCuistion Two police officers, Officer Savannah Stewart and Officer Virgil Thomas accompanied Richmond Police Activities League (RPAL) to travel on the FIRST Southern...
SALLY HO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal funding could be at stake as Common Core testing problems continued in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota,...
What is it that you do everyday that makes you happy? Think about it. Every day, you wake up and you step outside for a...
Students at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley are gaining some important life lessons, learning the elements of getting their hands dirty in a garden and...
We all go through different situations. Some predicaments can cause stress; some can become a stepping-stone towards success. But, we all must express ourselves. Life...
Richmond Writes! Poetry Contest winners have been selected! The contest, conceived of by the Richmond Arts & Culture Commission (RACC) as a way to celebrate National...