Education

Transitional kindergarten at the San Francisco Unified School District will now be free for families and students during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Transitional kindergarten at the San Francisco Unified School District will now be free for families and students during the 2025-2026 academic year. Andres Brender reports. 

California is fighting back against President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. Ian Cull reports.

While big questions about the agency’s future remain unanswered, here is everything to know about its history, and some of the plans conservatives have pushed for dismantling it.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to close the Department of Education.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department.

California already has started to fight back against President Donald Trump’s impending executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. Scott McGrew and Bob Redell report.

California already has started to fight back against President Donald Trump’s impending executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education.

Experts and educators across the state and Bay Area fear that the potential closure of the Department of Education will impact some of the most vulnerable students.

Experts and educators across the state and Bay Area fear that the potential closure of the Department of Education will impact some of the most vulnerable students. Jocelyn Moran reports.

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department.

The 49ers Foundation wants to award teachers for following their bliss. The team’s VP of philanthropy says that’s the idea behind one of two programs that boost youth education and sports.

For parents of kids with disabilities, advocating for their child can be complicated, time-consuming — and expensive.

Friday is the 10th annual dress for STEM.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration Thursday over its mass firings at the Department of Education.

Massive layoffs initiated this week at the Education Department could hamstring the federal government’s efforts to assist students with disabilities, former officials and education experts said, citing blows to the agency’s civil rights and research divisions.  On Tuesday, the department began laying off around 1,300 employees, cutting nearly half the staff in its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and over 100 from the Institute...

The lawsuit claims the layoffs are so severe that the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.”

Oakland educators rallied on Wednesday, hoping to save their jobs as the board of education faces budget cuts.

Employees at the Office of Civil Rights regional office in San Francisco are among those being cut as part of drastic changes at the United States Department of Education.