Recruiting and retaining Black teachers has taken on new urgency in recent years as California lawmakers try to ease the state’s teacher shortage. The state and individual school districts have launched initiatives to recruit teachers of color, but educators and advocates say more needs to be done.
A conservative parents group is targeting new enrichment programming for Black boys at two San Leandro schools, alleging in a civil rights complaint that the initiative discriminates against other students.
Experts and educators across the state and Bay Area fear that the potential closure of the Department of Education will impact some of the most vulnerable students.
Travis Bristol opened Day 2 of the Board of Directors Meeting for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. During the reception, they honored out-going Board member Dr. Mae Jemison (the first woman of color to go to space). In Bristol’s remarks he thanked Dr. Jemison for personifying what it means to “walk with kings and queens and not lose the common touch.” And, for ALL of the ways she continues to...
UC Berkeley’s Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity, in partnership with UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, baseline report from Year 1 of the Race, Education, and Community Healing (REACH) Network examines discipline disparities across 10 diverse California schools. We highlight these schools’ and districts’ efforts to address exclusionary discipline and offer insights and...
Postdoctoral scholar Christine Quince participated on a panel with UCLA Professor and past President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Tyrone C. Howard at the Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (Black ECE) Symposium. On the panel they...
CREEO at UC Berkeley is proud to share a significant milestone in developing the 
