John Fensterwald

1 day ago | edsource.org | John Fensterwald

Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento on May 14, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Rich PedroncelliTK-12 schools and community colleges can expect the same funding in 2025-26 that they received this year, plus a small cost-of-living adjustment, and there will be a big boost for early literacy, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed Wednesday in the revision to his January state budget plan.

2 days ago | stocktonia.org | John Fensterwald

A recent visit to Alpha: Cornerstone Academy, a TK-8 charter school in San Jose, offered a glimpse of high-impact tutoring. It was during the intervention period in third grade, when teacher specialists work in small groups. In one corner, four girls and a boy in their maroon Alpha school shirts sat around a horseshoe table, listening intently through earphones to their personal tutor from Ignite Reading, a growing Oakland-based public benefit corporation operating in 20 states.

2 days ago | edsource.org | John Fensterwald

Ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s release of his revised 2025-26 budget on Wednesday, John Fensterwald checked in with longtime budget watcher Rob Manwaring for his thoughts on what to expect. Manwaring is a fiscal and policy advisor for the nonprofit advocacy organization Children Now. TranscriptEvery year, by May 15, the governor has to revise his proposed budget, and this is when the budget season really kicks off.

2 days ago | edsource.org | John Fensterwald

Students at a middle school in Los Angeles walk to class. ROBYN BECK / AFP)Credit Robin Beck / AFPMembers of the Legislative Jewish Caucus have switched strategies to address their alarm over rising incidents of antisemitism in schools. They have abandoned a bill that called for creating academic standards that would have spelled out what should and should not be taught in American ethnic studies courses.

3 days ago | flipboard.com | John Fensterwald

Districts still have learning recovery money: why not spend it on tutoring? Top Takeaways• Up to 40 districts and charter schools can sign up to design their own high-impact tutoring. • Unless they’ve spent billions already, …