This week: Louis discusses the release of California's much anticipated new school accountability system. He's joined by California Collaborative for Educational Excellence executive director, Carl Cohn and Pivot Learning CEO Arun Ramanathan.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: a focus on Gov. Brown's push to establish a new online-only community college; who the online degrees are meant to reach and who online classes work best for, plus the release of the CA School Dashboard the dept. of ed is releasing next week.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: the effect the Republican tax bill may have on the California state budget, the surprisingly rosy forecast for K12 and community college funding, and how a state-mandated school safety plan may have averted a greater tragedy this week in Rancho Tehama.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: Louis and John take on a hot issue in California; chronic absenteeism. Why is tracking chronic absenteeism important? How extensive is the problem in CA? Why are students chronically absent? What should schools be doing about it? What are other states' effective strategies? And what's next for this issue?

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: suspensions and expulsions are down dramatically in CA schools — though racial gaps persist, how will LGBT history be covered in CA classrooms and a new Seal of Civic Engagement for high school diplomas.

This week: Louis and John discuss what's happening in the California races for governor and state superintendent of public instruction and where the leading candidates stand on major educational issues like universal preschool, charter school regulation, teacher tenure and the Local Control Funding Formula.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: Louis covers two of the nearly 100 education-related bills signed by Gov. Brown this week: a possible free year of tuition for all full-time, first-year community college students and a prohibition on expelling students from state-funded preschools.

Produced by Sarah Tan

This week: California abolishes the high school exit exam, wine-country fires are having an impact on schools, State Board of Education President Mike Kirst says special education is in "big trouble."

This week: Pedro Noguera on creating inclusive environments for all children, especially the state's most vulnerable, and the story one of the Bay Area's 15,000 homeless students trying to finish school without a stable place to call home.

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This week: Louis and John talk to education leaders across the state for their take on the newly released results of the third year of Smarter Balanced assessments. What does it mean that scores are flat in the 3rd year, and how much importance should be placed on them versus other measures of student success?

Produced by Sarah Tan