San Francisco Chronicle

There's been a lot of squabbling on the education playground these days. New York City has begun experimenting with evaluating teachers via student achievement scores. Many states have renewed debates around merit pay for teachers. California school districts are preparing for budget cuts by considering teacher hiring freezes and layoffs.

Scores of savvy San Francisco parents have tapped a pot of taxpayer dollars for everything from children's ice skating lessons and Monterey Bay Aquarium field trips to supplies for Halloween parties and chartered buses to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield.

At 16, Yehyang Kin is old enough to drive, but the San Francisco high school student doesn't have a

The University of California offered admission to the most freshmen ever, sending out more than 60,000...

The Oakland school board wasted no time flexing its renewed political muscle, secretly and perhaps...

American undergraduate education needs to change if college students are going to learn more than just practical skills for chosen careers, according to a report by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

A state Senate committee has approved a San Francisco lawmaker's proposed legal protections for high school and college journalism teachers after hearing instructors' complaints of retaliation for hard-hitting articles in student newspapers.

Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
State education agencies will ask cash-strapped lawmakers in Sacramento for half a million dollars to study why high school seniors in special education classes often fail the exit exam - and what to do about it.

High school seniors in special-education classes will be required for the first time this year to pass California's exit exam to qualify for a diploma after lawyers for the disabled failed to get them an exemption.

In late March and early April, anxious high school seniors wait for little white envelopes or big fat...

A California student trying to log on to a school computer typically has to push past four other kids to reach the keyboard, according to a new national study of students' access to technology.

To learn more about how legacy admissions affect diversity

Even as some of California's top elected officials promised they won't support or enforce a recent court decision severely restricting most homeschooling, a small Christian school vowed to take the fight to the state Supreme Court to get a legal guarantee.

Virtually every college bans hazing, but more than half of college students belonging to campus

California's 109 community colleges are joining the search for large donations from businesses, foundations and alumni - green pastures that used to be grazed almost exclusively by the state's public and private universities.