This week: CA state board grapples over final ESSA plans with just one meeting left, a roadmap for bilingual education in CA post Prop. 58, the fate of teacher tenure bills & more!

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This week: Should school districts be required to do more detailed reporting on how they spend state funds? Where in CA should educators go to produce more college graduates? How do some school districts convince students to take math courses — over the summer no less?

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This week: Trump's budget cuts cause fissures in the charter school movement, the implications of SCOTUS's church preschool playground decision, CA CORE districts' request to be declared "innovation zones," and the push for school districts to be more assertive diagnosing children with dyslexia

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This week: CA legislature approves FY18 budget, with increased funding for K-12 schools, DeVos criticizes charter advocates who don't support other "school choice" options & Netflix CEO commits to long-term campaign to increase charter enrollments

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This week: ongoing efforts to extend the length of time it takes to get teacher tenure in CA, what schools can do to prevent youth suicide & strategies to reduce superintendent turnover

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In this edition of "This Week in California Education,” Executive Director Louis Freedberg, and Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald bring you a special podcast from the Education Writers Association national seminar in Washington D.C. this week. They sought out national education leaders to get their perspectives on how California is doing on its education reforms, and its new "California School Dashboard" that ranks schools on multiple measures, not just test scores.

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This week Louis and John focus on money matters — Gov. Brown's sending $1B to schools...in 2 years, what President Trump's budget means for California and Congress restores Pell grants for summer school. Plus predictions for next week!

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A closer look at the charter school wars in Los Angeles, in light of the run-off elections on Tuesday for the two remaining undecided seats on the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education.

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In this week's episode: California Department of Ed taking advantage of the Trump admin's more hands-off approach to education, CA Charter School Association flexing its muscles politically, a new partnership between Khan Academy and offices of education in Southern California

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Executive Director Louis Freedberg, and Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald take on the new push in the Legislature to increase probationary period for new teachers from two to three years, districts looking for help ending limits the state has placed on the amount of money they can keep in budget reserves, and Trump fails to follow through on his education pledges in his first 100 days — which critics say may be a good thing.

Produced by Sarah Tan