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Salary tracker shows earning power of community college grads – often more than graduate degree holders
With the right major, California community college graduates can out-earn workers with bachelor’s and master’s degrees – often by a lot. Salary Surfer, an online consumer guide released by the community college chancellor’s office Wednesday, lets prospective students and everyone else look up the median earnings for graduates of the 179 most popular subjects at community college campuses. The highest paying fields don’t necessarily require a two-year associate’s degree, the guide shows. Five years after earning a … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College and Career Preparation, College Completion, Community Colleges, Data, Featured, Reporting & Analysis
State budget puts community colleges on (slow) path to recovery
Celebrate might be too strong a word, but, in the current fiscal context, community colleges have reason to at least raise a small glass as they head into summer. The budget bill passed Friday by the Legislature brings the budget for the 112 community colleges up to $6 billion for the 2013-14 fiscal year. That’s up by more than $200 million over this year, and begins the process of restoring the $809 million hit community college have … Read entire article »
Filed under: Community Colleges, Featured, Funding and Taxation, Reporting & Analysis
Accrediting commission denies violations over City College of San Francisco
This story has been updated with additional interviews. The accrediting agency that placed City College of San Francisco on the most severe sanction last year has denied charges of irregularities and violations contained in a lengthy complaint filed by the college’s faculty union, Local AFT 2121, last month. It also rejected the union’s demand that City College be removed from that sanction, known as “show cause,” which requires the College to fix its problems or face losing its accreditation. In a response issued Thursday, the Executive Committee of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges said the union’s charge that the college was placed on show cause status based on a “mischaracterization” of the college’s accreditation history is “without merit.” According to the complaint, filed April 30, the commission mischaracterized “the College as … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis
Disparities in education can crush aspirations in heart of Silicon Valley
Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is home to such high-tech fixtures as Yahoo!, Juniper Networks, AMD and Applied Micro, plus aerospace/defense operations of Lockheed Martin and Honeywell. Yet few Latinos who grow up in their shadow are qualified to work for those companies. The disconnect between aspirations and reality starts early. Only 10 percent of Latinos, who comprise 42 percent of students in Sunnyvale Elementary District, are proficient in algebra by the end of … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, Charter Schools, Equity issues, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, STEM, UC and CSU
As legislators debate adult ed proposal, Oakland reinstates its program
The Oakland school board has called off plans to shutter its adult education programs, voting Wednesday to fund the programs for at least one more year. The board’s unanimous vote allocates $1 million next year for the 142-year-old adult education program, the second-oldest and once the fifth-largest in the state. The program, now a shadow of its former self, became the poster child of the movement to save K-12 adult schools after the board voted earlier … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adult education, California Colleges, Career Technical Education, College and Career Preparation, Community Colleges, Jerry Brown, Legislature, Bills, Reporting & Analysis, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula), Workforce preparation
City College of San Francisco receives final accreditation report
This story has been updated. Embattled City College of San Francisco has received the final report from the accreditation commission on its progress in making reforms to address a host of financial and management problems. However, the contents of the report won’t be made public until the regional accrediting board issues a final ruling on whether the college will keep its accreditation, said Bob Agrella, the special trustee appointed to keep the college on track to … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis
Community colleges get boost under governor’s revised budget
Community colleges will receive millions more to begin to restore cut classes, rebuild flagging enrollment and strengthen student support services under Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget released Tuesday. Brown would add an additional $30 million to the system’s 2013-14 apportionment, raising it to $226.9 million from the Proposition 98 school funding guarantee. Unlike the January budget proposal, however, when Gov. Brown left it to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors to decide how to spend … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, Community Colleges, Featured, Jerry Brown, Reporting & Analysis, State Budget
Bonds would fund business investment in schools under Steinberg proposal
The leader of the California State Senate says the way to encourage more and stronger bonds between industry and education is through, well, bonds. With California facing a shortage of qualified workers for 21st century jobs, Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg wants to entice businesses to become more involved in job training by asking them to invest in a new type of school bond that would fund programs that infuse career education into traditional academic courses. Businesses … Read entire article »
Filed under: Career Technical Education, College and Career Preparation, Community Colleges, Featured, Internships, Service Learning, Legislature, Bills, Multiple pathways, Multiple Pathways, Partnership Academies, Reporting & Analysis, Twenty-first Century Learning, Workforce preparation
Brown’s efforts to restrict community college financial aid rejected
State Senate and Assembly committees have rejected several controversial elements of Gov. Jerry Brown’s recommendations on financial aid and financing of the state’s community colleges. The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance on Wednesday voted down one proposal that would have required all community college students seeking a Board of Governor’s fee waiver to first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as FAFSA, and another plan that would have required students with more than 90 credits to pay the full cost of community college courses. On Thursday, the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee concurred on two of those actions, holding open a vote on the FAFSA requirement. Nearly 1 million community college students receive a fee waiver at a cost of about $783 million this academic year and, according … Read entire article »
Filed under: College Enrollment, College Loans, Grants, Community Colleges, Jerry Brown, Quick Hits
New scorecards show challenges for state’s community colleges
Students who start community college prepared to take college-level courses have a better than 70 percent chance of earning a degree or certificate or transferring to a four-year college within six years. The outcome is significantly worse for students placed in remedial math or science, with barely 41 percent achieving those goals, according to the first-ever student success scorecards released Tuesday by the systemwide chancellor’s office. The scorecards provide in-depth information for each of the state’s … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College and Career Preparation, College Completion, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, Workforce preparation
Video Highlights from
2013 EdSource Symposium
Transforming Public Education: What's Next For
Students, Teachers and Schools
- In Partnership with the California State PTA -
May 4th symposium in San Jose featured a number of prominent speakers on key challenges in education today, including Linda Darling-Hammond, Martha Kanter, and Pedro Noguera.
You can find video of those speakers and more at our new YouTube channel by clicking below.
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