Providing Fiscal Assistance and Services to Local Educational Agencies

Headlines

News In Education

FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.

Apr 07, 2026

Measure E on the June 2 ballot would extend the current annual tax at the rate of $1,520 that expires in June 2029. It also would reauthorize a supplemental tax that expired in 2021, levying an additional $234 per parcel.

Apr 07, 2026

Teachers struggling to afford living in this city can soon apply to live next door to their colleagues in a North Oakland apartment building that is being converted into housing for educators.

Apr 07, 2026

The Trump administration on Monday terminated a civil rights settlement with Sacramento City Unified School District aimed at ensuring a transgender student’s right to equal opportunity to education.

Apr 07, 2026

As part of this editorial board’s ongoing election coverage and endorsement process, we reached out to candidates for state superintendent of public instruction on a litany of public policy issues.

Apr 07, 2026

The changing of the guard after the eight-year term limits for Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond will likely coincide with a belt-tightening period for the state budget, forcing tough choices for the next governor.

Apr 07, 2026

Los Angeles schools are one week away from a historic employee walkout — which for the first time would involve three major unions representing teachers, most non-teaching staff and school administrators, including principals and assistant principals.

Spotlight

Ed-Data.org

Ed-Data.org, also known as the Education Data Partnership, is a partnership of the California Department of Education, EdSource, and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team/California School Information Services (FCMAT/CSIS). It provides educators, parents, policy makers, the legislature and public access to timely and comprehensive fiscal, demographic, and performance data about TK-12 education in California.

Visit Ed-Data.org
Visit the Ed-Data Website