Education

A committee of University of California regents approved a plan today that will force most of UC's 180,000 employees to take unpaid leave and pay cuts as part of a plan to address cuts in state funding.

As leaders of Philadelphia's Drexel University visited Sacramento this week, there was no missing the stylized golden dragon that is the school's mascot.

Elk Grove Unified School District has been awarded a $468,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for emergency readiness.

Not once in the two decades since California's Proposition 98 school-funding formula became law have lawmakers bucked education groups to suspend it – so Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's push to do so has rocked the Capitol.

Aspiring nurses, teachers and community college transfer students planning to enroll at Sacramento State in the spring may be forced to delay their education.

University of California President Mark Yudof presented a new plan for furloughing employees Friday, a sliding scale approach that cuts pay according to how much workers make.

A Japanese quarantine has been lifted for 20 California students taking a UC Davis class on daily life in Japan, a UC Davis spokeswoman said Thursday.

As the budget clock ticked, the state's school funding guarantee complicated talks this week due to questions over how much money the state owes education now and in future years.

Twin Rivers Unified School District police officers plan to meet at 5:30 today at the Sacramento International Airport to welcome home one of their own.

The Sacramento City Unified School District has offered its superintendent job to a North Carolina school district administrator who ran a multimillion- dollar nonprofit in Boston before going into public education.

Excited laughter and frenetic play among more than 200 children in Rancho Cordova's White Rock Park paused just long enough for the children to form a crooked, single-file line.

The cost to attend California State University this fall could rise by 30 percent compared with the year just ended, an increase experts said could drive students out of school.

A class on daily life in Japan has become a lesson in life under quarantine for 20 students from UC Davis and other California colleges who are confined to a Japanese dorm because of swine flu.

SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

The powerful California Teachers Association launched an offensive Monday against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to suspend the Proposition 98 school-funding measure to help bridge this year's budget gap.

The little yellow school bus may soon be coming to the end of the road.

Because of state budget cuts, the Cal State system is trying to trim its annual spending by $584 million. University officials say they could save $275 million by furloughing all employees two days a month for one year.

Incoming UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi was involved in an e-mail exchange that may have helped the daughter of a prominent Greek family gain acceptance to the University of Illinois, according to published reports.

As public colleges and universities respond to an economic downturn with tuition hikes and caps on admissions, private colleges and universities are trying a different approach.

"Vsyo boodet harasho." It doesn't translate into a solution for California's economic woes, but teaching Russian is helping one Citrus Heights resident survive the recession.

Nine school districts in El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento counties have been placed on a fiscal early-warning list, meaning they are in danger of not meeting financial obligations.

The Sacramento City Unified School District has whittled a pool of 50 applicants for superintendent down to three candidates.

Elk Grove Unified officials have rescinded a request for parents to return DVDs that included "inappropriate images" they say were inadvertently sent home with students at Isabelle Jackson Elementary.

Budget cuts at the University of California have already hit students where it hurts. Enrollment caps have made it harder to get in – and those who have been admitted are paying more for their education.