Lawmakers have regularly balanced the state budget “on the backs of students,” public schools advocates have argued. This year, legislators took a different approach.
New surveys show graduates are unprepared to use AI professionally and fear entry-level jobs will be replaced. Employers are confirming their anxieties.
Proponents of the “Future-Ready Facilities Plan” say the plan will improve equity and opportunities for students districtwide, while opponents say the plan lacks clarity and transparency, and that the shifts would be disruptive to students’ educations.
Some K-12 teachers say they are using AI on the job, but around eight in ten say they've received no formal guidance on applying the tools their work, according to a new report from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation.
A few months ago, an elementary interventionist told me her district had tightened student screen time limits. She was trying to ensure students completed their Tier 2 math intervention within the new 45-minute weekly cap. The intervention required logging in to one platform for lessons, then another for progress monitoring. Literacy ran on yet another. […]
Los Angeles USD's updated “fiscal stability plan” calls for cuts totaling more than $3.6 billion over the next three years—which would result in staff cutbacks on a massive scale.
