If professional schools within the University of California want to raise student fees, they might soon be allowed to set new prices by considering what private universities are charging. Current UC policy requires that new fees be no higher than the average...

The San Francisco school board Tuesday adopted a new system for assigning students to schools, a hybrid plan that immediately came under fire for failing to pick a side in a long-running battle between neighborhood schools and diverse schools. The new system...

I mentor a student who is a senior in a low-performing high school. About 50 percent of the students at his school drop out, while less than 25 percent go to college. His parents didn't graduate from high school, and his father earns about $14,000 a year. His grade point average is good enough to qualify him for admission at a few University of California schools.

Nearly 40 years after anti-war protests and other complaints forced ROTC programs off the Stanford campus, the military training program could be on its way back. A faculty committee will study the possibility of inviting the Reserve Officer Training Corps...

Across California, 188 schools got the news Monday that they were the lowest of the low-performing schools - a designation that will require them to be closed, converted to a charter school or be subject to a complete overhaul of instruction and staff,...

After years of debate, delay and endless controversy, the San Francisco school board will vote Tuesday on a new student assignment system - a hybrid plan that offers choice, prioritizes proximity to a school and addresses the needs of struggling students. It'...

States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores — and more inequality.

Suddenly, everyone is talking about universal preschool. But talk is easy.

In this era of testing and accountability, preschool is the last frontier. Most preschool educators are coming to accept that with more states getting into the business of educating 3- and 4-year-olds, the political demands for accountability -- for showing that preschools and kindergartens work -- are inevitable.

For most of this country's history, parents were content to keep children at home playing in the kitchen until kindergarten or first grade. Most nursery schools were considered a luxury of the middle and upper classes.

Thousands of schools in and around this devastated capital could remain closed for months or never reopen, according to Haitian and U.N. education officials. That leaves vast numbers of children languishing in camps or working in menial jobs as they struggle...

Why didn't California win a finalist position in the federal Race to the Top program? The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that 15 states and the District of Columbia were finalists for the first round of funding from Race to the Top, a...

The depth and breadth of Thursday's Day of Action sent a compelling message of the anger that is building against the diminution of public education in California. We praise the vast majority of peaceful demonstrators who showed that resolve is not measured...

Most of the 150 protesters arrested for walking onto Interstate 880 in Oakland during Thursday's demonstration against education budget cuts were released Friday, officials said. The protesters were arrested after using an exit ramp to walk onto the freeway,...

Today, in California and other states across the nation, students, teachers, faculty and workers have been protesting, striking, walking out of classes and staging sit-ins and teach-ins. They are protesting budget cuts, tuition hikes, compensation reductions, layoffs and privatizations affecting public K-12 schools and universities.

Gathering for a series of feisty rallies on college campuses, in civic plazas and in the streets, thousands of protesters lashed out Thursday against the budget cuts and neglect that they say are breaking down the state's public education system. The historic...

Despite legislative backflips in January to pass controversial laws designed to make California schools more competitive, the state failed to make the cut for the first round of Race to the Top education money, federal officials announced Thursday. California...

Students and college professors in California and around the country protested Thursday over the drastic cuts imposed on cash-strapped state colleges and universities.

All lanes of Interstate-880 in downtown Oakland were shut down temporarily in the middle of rush hour after a splinter group of people protesting cuts to education entered the highway just before 5 p.m. The shutdown occurred shortly after a peaceful rally at...