Category: Education

Most students sit through high school often wondering how the information they’re learning is going to help them in the future. That was not the case recently for students from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. Students in the School of Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE) took part in a 16-week Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW) course that showed them how to launch and operate a restaurant. At the end of the program, the students operated a “pop up restaurant,” called Ruff Dog. The SBE is one of three academies at Dorsey and the curriculum integrates business principles and partners students with local companies to teach them about entrepreneurship.

The California State Senate voted recently to temporarily suspend the administration of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) and now the legislation moves to the Assembly for its consideration.

The Campaign for College Opportunity in July will issue the third in a series of reports that presents an overview of the status of California’s ethnic minorities attending college.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is trying to “reconstitute” Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy—a change that will directly impact students. The reconstitution forces educators to reapply for their jobs, which will further destabilize the under-supported and under-funded school, according to a press release from United Teachers Los Angeles. After summer break, when classes resume, students may find their favorite teachers are gone.

This summer, parents of students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 will receive the results of the new standardized test taken by youngsters in the state called the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress–or CAASPP.

The Campaign for College Opportunity today will release its “The State of Higher Education in California: Black Report,” which examines how the state’s 2.16 million Black residents (6 percent of California’s population) are faring in higher education compared with other racial/ethnic groups.

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court made a decision that would have a profound impact on American public school education.
In a culmination of years of legal groundwork laid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to end segregation, the high court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, handed down on May 17, 1954, a unanimous (9-0) decision which stated that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

A group of students and teachers sued Compton Unified School District in federal court this week, demanding that the district deal with the learning needs of low-income students affected by violence and trauma at home.