The California Lottery raised more than $2.25 billion for the state’s public schools in 2024, bringing to $46 billion the total the lottery has generated for education since its inception in 1985.

California libraries are bracing for cutbacks to early literacy, information access and other education programs, the Los Angeles Times reported, due to the Trump administration’s push to slash ...

Following a rocky rollout of this year’s FAFSA, roughly 5.7 million students applied for aid nationwide — compared to the average of 17 million applicants, The Hill reported. “Because the FAFSA became ...

A 2022 San Diego County Teacher of the Year recipient, who was arrested seven months after being awarded the honor, pleaded guilty to sex crimes with a sixth grade student at Lincoln Acres Elementary, ...

A bill that would increase California teacher and classified school employee salaries by 50% over the next decade passed the Assembly Education Committee unanimously Thursday. Assembly Bill 477 would ...

A newly installed Oakland Unified school board voted Wednesday to scrap the previous board’s plan to close five elementary schools and cut grades 6,7 and 8 from a K-8 school at the end of this school ...

California has the fourth-highest infant childcare costs in the U.S., an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found. Average infant child care costs in California total almost $22,000 a year, ...

Following investigations, the California Department of Education has verified incidents of antisemitism in two neighboring San Jose-area school districts. In separate decisions, the department ordered ...

Music education can boost the emotional well-being of adolescents, according to research by the University of Southern California. Researchers surveyed 120 students from 52 Los Angeles Unified School ...

House Democrats are demanding to know why officials from the Department of Homeland Security came to two elementary schools in Los Angeles Unified on April 7 asking to conduct welfare checks on five ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week reappointed two longtime members of the State Board of Education, Sue Burr and Ilene Straus, indicating his support for a continuity of leadership on the policy-making ...

The Chino Valley Unified School District has plans to send the Trump administration a letter requesting that it intervene on matters concerning transgender athletes following a unanimous vote from the ...