Stitt-backed report calls for charter schools to receive local property taxes

A report from Gov. Kevin Stitt's former education secretary recommends using school carryover funds for teacher pay and giving charters local tax revenue.
Opinion

Contributor: SAT scores are another way UC schools are closing their doors to diversity

If the UC system is serious about equity, the answer isn't to reinstate a test that measures proximity to wealth and resources.

LAUSD's first day of school: New algebra books, looming layoffs and putrid odors

Academic gains and hope power LAUSD into a new school year amid the looming pain of planning for thousands of layoffs.
AOL

Campus antisemitism extends beyond student protests and into classrooms, ADL warns

The Anti-Defamation League warns in a new report that antisemitism is not only found at on-campus protests, but also in classrooms. University campuses have been at the center of the national ...

Schools must adapt to extreme heat in a warming world, report urges

Heat waves pose a growing threat to learning, health and well-being in schools as extreme heat becomes more frequent and intense across the United States, finds a report by the American Psychological ...

Academics pilot habitat restoration project at Woodfibre site

The site-specific academic program at the Woodfibre LNG site—not to be confused with the separate restoration project WLNG launched with community non-profit Ocean Wise and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw ...

For refugees to the US, discrimination can make healthcare harder to get

The pattern remained after we accounted for health status, English proficiency, financial hardship, education, employment, insurance coverage and time in the U.S. In fact, reported discrimination was ...
Saudi Gazette on MSN

Saudi university students spend 3.5 hours daily on social media; study reveals

RIYADH — It was revealed in a recent scientific study that Saudi university students spend an average of three hours and 28 minutes per day on social media, with notable differences across academic ...

I've been fighting wildfires while I wait for my A-level results

An 18-year-old firefighter who combined his A-levels with responding to emergency calls is among thousands of students ...
Medical Xpress

Personalized T-cell therapy eliminates detectable metastatic kidney tumor in adolescent after multiple relapses

Researchers and physicians at the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) and other leading cancer centers report an exceptional treatment outcome in an adolescent with an advanced, ...
LAist

First day attendance was strong at Boyle Heights schools, even as fire clean-up questions remain

Some environmental health experts told LAist that school officials have more work to do on testing and cleaning at some ...
Davis Vanguard

Brookings Report Points to Community Investment as Key to Public Safety in Oakland and Other U.S. Cities

A new Brookings Institution report, which analyzed public safety initiatives in Oakland, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., argues that sustainable public safety necessitates investment in neighborhood ...