Education

Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have required state education officials to develop a model ethnic studies program for California’s public schools.

The measure would have directed the California Department of Education to form an advisory panel to develop the curriculum, which would then be approved by the state Board of Education and

hate crime investigation has been launched into a series of offensive messages found scrawled early Saturday onto cars on the UC Davis campus.

UC Davis police found eight cars with their tires slashed and five others etched with religious slurs in a campus parking lot. A man was seen running through an apartment complex around the

On one of the first days of class at Dos Puentes Elementary School in Upper Manhattan last month, a new student named Michelle peered up through pale blue glasses and took a deep breath.

“Can I drink water?” Michelle, 6, said.

“Diga en Español,”

At a time when the term diversity appears steadily shifting in meaning and sliding off many radars as a priority, more than 100 of the top diversity officers across the country gathered in Chicago this week for what has been described as closed-door, frank talk about the status of diversity and how to regain the

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in a speech before an audience Wednesday at the National Press Club, announced a new policy to reallocate state correctional funding dollars to raises for teachers in the nation’s most underprivileged districts.

In what were perhaps his most intentional comments to date on race, Duncan addressed the disparities in educational

When an activist evangelical group confronted students at DePauw University last week, screaming that they were “whores” and “sinners,” it didn’t take long for tensions to escalate. What happened that afternoon illustrates the challenges campuses face in balancing free speech and campus safety at a time of heightened cultural and racial tensions.

Janeya D. Cunningham, a first-year