This week: education leaders on the Kerner Commission at 50, including Learning Policy Institute president Linda Darling-Hammond, co-directors of UCLA's Civil Rights Project Gary Orfield and Patricia Gándara, The Education Trust president and former U.S. secretary of education John King, and Hewlett Foundation education program director Kent McGuire.

This week: an upsurge in student activism for gun control following the school shooting in Florida; a new report on disproportionate suspension rates of black students in California; State Senator Nancy Skinner makes a pitch for her bill to extend the current ban on suspending students for "willful defiance"; and a proposal in the state Senate to increase base funding.

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This week: voters have a more positive view of the CA School Dashboard than expected, LCFF funds are improving grad rates and math scores — especially for low-income students, Brown asks for more budget transparency from districts, and Newsom & Villaraigosa running neck and neck in the race for Gov.

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This week: A push to offer SAT or ACT to 11th graders in place of Common Core-aligned Smarter Balanced tests, the growing battle between CA & the U.S. Department of Education over how to count and serve the state's low-performing students, an for the 1st year more Bay Area charter schools closed than opened.

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This week: Louis Freedberg and John discuss Governor Jerry Brown's comments on education during his 16th and final state of the state speech. Plus tuition hikes on the horizon for UC and CSU students.

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This week: how the state is pitching teaching as a career to help alleviate the teacher shortage, CA sticks to its ESSA plan despite criticism from the U.S. Dept of Ed & a closer look at the lack of homeschool regulations in the wake of the Perris child abuse case.

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This week: Louis and John discuss the release of CA's 2018-19 budget — Gov. Brown's last. Despite predicting an economic recession Brown proposed a burst of education spending for early ed, K-12, higher ed and other initiatives.

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This week: Louis and John make predictions about the biggest education issues on the horizon in 2018 including the fate of CA's Dreamers, the upcoming SCOTUS decision on public employee union dues, the impact legal marijuana will have on state's teens and more.

This week: John and producer Sarah Tan review key education developments in 2017 and look ahead to what to expect in 2018.

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This week: is the new CA School Dashboard too complicated to be useful for parents? What's working, how can it be improved and how are other states presenting the same information. Plus big changes proposed for credentialing requirements for special education teachers.

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