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By next fall, refugee students may be able to apply to attend American colleges and universities. The State Department said it plans to pilot a new category for refugee admissions, known as P4. P4 status would allow a group or institution to sponsor a refugee. A university sponsorship program...
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The University of California will not require any kind of admissions test for students trying to gain entry as undergraduates, system leaders reiterated Thursday. Though the system voted last year to do away with requiring the SAT and ACT admissions tests, still up in the air was whether the UC...
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La Universidad de California no requerirá ningún tipo de prueba de admisión para los estudiantes que intenten inscribirse, reiteraron los líderes del sistema el jueves. Aunque el sistema votó el año pasado para eliminar la exigencia de las pruebas de admisión SAT y ACT, todavía estaba en el aire si...
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Steven Kellner es un ex superintendente escolar que ahora trabaja para California Education Partners, una organización sin fines de lucro. Un martes por la tarde en mayo, la maestra de tercer grado Clara Yáñez y la maestra de segundo grado Jackie González se pararon frente a su junta de...
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Steven Kellner is a former school superintendent who now works for California Education Partners, a nonprofit organization. On a Tuesday evening in May, third-grade teacher Clara Yanez and second-grade teacher Jackie Gonzalez stood in front of their board of education and asked them to count little plastic farm animals. While...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Latinx college students in California made significant gains pre-pandemic – with jumps in college attendance and completion – but a new report says big gaps remain between white and Latinx students, particularly men. The “2021 State of Education for Latinx in California” report found that in the California...
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SACRAMENTO, CA – Estudiantes universitarios Latinx en California lograron avances significativos antes de la pandemia, con saltos en la asistencia y finalización de la universidad, pero un nuevo informe dice que persisten grandes brechas entre los estudiantes blancos y Latinx, particularmente los hombres. El informe Estado de la Educación para Latinx en...
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After her freshman year at San Francisco State was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, Marissa Ledesma fled from the campus vowing never to return. It wasn’t just the fast-spreading coronavirus that poisoned the well. Her whole first year was a bust, from an emotionally trying saga with her...
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Después de que su primer año en Cal State San Francisco se vio interrumpido por la pandemia de COVID-19, Marissa Ledesma huyó del campus y prometió no regresar nunca. No fue solo el coronavirus de rápida propagación lo causó problemas. Todo su primer año fue un fracaso, desde una...