By the end of January, the state will publish the initial list of hundreds of low-performing California schools that must receive intensive help under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The State Board of Education has now approved how districts with any of those schools must verify what they're doing to turn those schools around.

Texas Tech's College of Education recently received grant funding from the Texas Education Agency that will be used to expand efforts to increase the quality and diversity of teachers in rural school districts. The $484,000 grant will also enable the university to expand its partnership from five to 11 school districts.

While the LAUSD strike is the latest installment of a trend driven by exasperated educators, various factors make it unique. The city's public-school teachers are predominantly people of color—and a plurality of them are Latino, like most of the students they serve. Numerous teachers say a sense of solidarity with their students is what's driving them to the picket lines.

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