State Board Of Education
What does the state superintendent actually do and how might that drastically change?
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond speaks at a press conference on July 1, 2025. Credit: Kindra Britt/California […]
January 30, 2026
How to describe middling and poor test scores? State Board frets over the right words
Ending several months of uncertainty, the California State Board of Education on Wednesday chose new labels to describe how students […]
March 6, 2025
State Board criticized for soft-pedaling reporting on low student test scores
Clarity matters when explaining to parents how their children did on standardized tests. An imprecise characterization of a complicated score can […]
December 2, 2024
Statewide test scores improved in 2024, but achievement still not back to pre-Covid levels
California students made some progress toward regaining their pre-Covid levels of achievement with incremental increases in English language arts, math […]
October 10, 2024
Understanding California’s test scores could hold the key to student improvement
As states across the nation release their annual data from tests administered to students in the 2023-24 school year, we’re […]
October 10, 2024
Why civic engagement must be integrated into the school dashboard
The State Seal of Civic Engagement, approved by the State Board of Education in 2020, marked a vital progression in […]
October 2, 2024