Tens of thousands teachers have gathered in Californian streets to protest budget cuts to education financing proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. After the protest at 8:30 a.m., teachers returned to their working regular duties, denouncing the protest as a disruption of the school day. The New York Times reports that if passed, the cuts would [...]
The California State University’s Board of Trustees have voted 15 to 3 to raise yearly undergraduate tuition by $276. Undergraduates will pay an average of $3,797 next year, twice as much as what a California State University cost in the fall of 2000. The New York Times reports that the increase in fees will be [...]
The Fiske Museum at California’s Claremont Colleges has sold its collection of rare musical instruments to the Musical Instrument Museum which will open in 2010. The project to build the new museum is backed financially by Robert Ulrich, chairman of the Target Corporation. The Claremont Colleges’ collection of rare musical instruments includes an 18th century [...]
The Charles R. Drew University plans to build a new facility for its Nursing School students, staff and professors. The construction of the new building, which is the first comprehensive training facility to be built in California in years, should be completed in Fall 2009. The Los Angeles Times reports that the building of the [...]
California State Officials have prohibited home schooling for schoolchildren. The change in school regulation has outraged home school advocates and parents. Estimates for the number of children receiving education at home ranges from 1.1-2.5 million, but with this new regulation in school policies, more than 166,000 home-schooled students will be forced to enroll in conventional [...]
Stanford University will not charge students whose annual family income is less than $100,000 tuition fees. It is expected that the new financial aid program will reduce the average bill for student tuition by 16 percent. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “the university is making the change in the wake of published reports last [...]