California Department of Education

After three drafts, four years, and hundreds of public comments, the California State Board of Education has passed the 2023 Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools to encourage “equity and excellence” in math learning, according to a California Department of Education press release. 

Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, Ruth Acty and Berkeley Arts Magnet Elementary schools have been selected for the 2023 California Distinguished Schools Program.

A research team led by UC Berkeley’s School of Education and other California institutions has received a $3 million federal grant to study post-pandemic learning recovery in California’s school system.

Performance gaps in statewide Smarter Balanced Assessments in math and English language arts are the fourth and fifth highest in the state, a Daily Californian analysis found.

To be a Hispanic-serving institution, or HSI, at least 25% of a not-for-profit institution’s full-time undergraduates must be Hispanic. Today, 21 of the 23 CSU campuses and six of the nine UC campuses with undergraduate education are HSIs. UC Berkeley, currently, is not.

Amidst California’s low standardized math test scores, increasing learning gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of sufficient diversity in STEM, the California State Board of Education’s recent proposed curriculum framework to reform math education has garnered criticism from hundreds of educators. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation implementing the Universal Meals Program, a state mandate that all public and charter schools provide at least two free meals every day for students upon request.

A $5 million grant was awarded by the California Department of Education to the 21st Century California School Leadership Academy, or 21CSLA, State Center, which is headquartered at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education.

In 1970, Berkeley was home to more than 27,000 Black residents. Today, less than half remain.

On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 101, an education bill that will require every student at a public high school in the state to take an ethnic studies course.