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According to California State University-Sacramento President J. Luke Wood, PhD, who founded the Black Honors College, his inspiration stemmed from the fact that while Sac State?has the largest population of Black students in the CSU system, the campus’ graduation rate for Black students is only 17.4%, below the 23.4% average across Cal State campuses. “No one serves more Black students than we do, and we’re in the bottom third in terms of success rates,” Wood said.

OPINION: California schools might be better off without a powerful federal agency that's driven by ideological concerns rather than by a desire to help vulnerable children learn.

California Faculty Association union members and representatives of the group Students for Quality Education gathered at a park outside the chancellor’s office and decorated signs protesting the system’s time, place and manner policy, the bundle of rules that apply to public assemblies on university campuses.

Defenders of the law have argued that its intent is to ensure students can progress more quickly toward transferring to four-year colleges by avoiding long sequences of pre-requisite courses, but some math educators have said they fear more students might fail calculus if they do not first enroll in the preparatory courses. Tina Akers-Porter is one such math professor at Modesto Junior College. During Tuesday’s roundtable, she shared concerns she has heard from other math professors statewide. The concerns have centered less on the law as intended and more on the?implementation guidance?from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, which she said “don’t exactly match up well with the law” and are “very strict.”

OPINION by Mark David Milliron & Thomas Stewart, Ph.D.: California’s Black-serving institutions bill will reward institutions statewide that are doing the vital work of serving the underserved students our economy and society need.

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Interested in learning more about reporting on dual enrollment? We have a great panel lined up and I’ll be moderating!

Search your school: https://bit.ly/3V09ZYt Take a look at this map, which shows active lead levels at school sites as well as the number of fixtures that have been tested.

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When I enrolled in community college last year, I did it with the intent to get out as soon as possible. I already have my BA and was just looking to qualify for internships and start a new career. I quickly got the internships, did the work, and I never got the new job. Writing this piece for EdSource was extremely therapeutic. It challenged me to look at my time as a student as achievement rather than something to be shameful of. The entire industry of journalism is constantly up in the air and the future of me having a career is still unknown. But for right now, I'm so glad to be in a classroom and leading a student newsroom.