State School funding reform comes with large cost By John Fensterwald EdSource Dec 18, 2025 California’s school funding law hasn’t proven as equitable or effective as legislators envisioned when they passed the Local Control Funding F…
State Featured COVID: 5 years later By Karen D’Souza EdSource Mar 25, 2025 Five years ago, when Esti Iturralde’s daughter was in the first grade, the little girl struggled with learning to read. The teacher told her m…
Columnists How California can fix its school crisis; 2 projects point the way By Dan WaltersUpdated Dec 4, 2025 When the state Department of Education released academic test scores of California’s public school students in October, it cast them in positi…
Local News Redwood City School District appoints trustee By Ana Mata, Daily Journal staff Oct 12, 2024 The Redwood City School District’s Board of Trustees appointed David Li, a public education advocate, to fill the Trustee Area 3 seat after no…
Columnists California’s dysfunctional ‘dashboard’ of school ratings finally gets a well-deserved beatdown By Dan WaltersUpdated Oct 17, 2024 Nine years ago, as the state Board of Education was working on a system to inform Californians about what was happening in schools, one of its…
+5 Local News 2 contested races, for Sequoia Union High School District By Ana Mata, Daily Journal staff Updated Sep 18, 2024 Three spots on the Sequoia Union High School District Board of Trustees are on the ballot this November, with two trustee areas fought over by…
Editorials Corzo, Zack-Kanga and Thiel for San Mateo-Foster City school board Updated Apr 13, 2025 With three incumbents taking leave from the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District Board of Trustees, there is an opportunity for ne…
Opinion The achievement gap Updated Apr 1, 2025 The educational achievement gap has been a front page story this fall. State Superintendent of Schools Jack O’Connell called a summit of schoo…