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FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.
Oct 29, 2024
After a series of threats that led to a dramatic evacuation and lockdown of Penngrove Elementary earlier this month, parents began raising concerns about Sonoma County’s plans to use the school as one of its voting centers for this year’s election.
Oct 29, 2024
In Jeff Simon’s math class at Sage Creek High School, students are not only allowed but encouraged to use AI. Simon introduces students to artificial intelligence tools that explain, step by step, how to solve a math problem — all they have to do is take a picture of it.
Oct 29, 2024
A federal appeals court ruling could require California to pay for some children to attend religious schools. California pays some private schools to teach students with learning disabilities, but only if those schools are secular, with no religious instruction.
Oct 29, 2024
The California attorney general is investigating a Southern California school district over whether it properly handled claims of educator sexual abuse and misconduct, records reviewed by Business Insider show.
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These three services represent the people and skills behind FCMAT and our dedication to California's educational system.
FCMAT's professional learning service includes regional and local educational agency (LEA)-specific workshops on a variety of topics for county offices, school districts, charter schools and community colleges; various leadership preparation programs; and written resources and presentations on a variety of topics given by staff throughout California.
Information on WorkshopsAs a service of FCMAT, CSIS assists LEAs in addressing a variety of challenges in the management and exchange of public school student, staff, and institutional information. CSIS has a long-standing history of providing leadership, information and tools designed to empower California's LEAs with increasing access to and use of high-quality data.
Visit CSISFCMAT has developed the FHRA and the Indicators of Risk or Financial Insolvency tools to help evaluate an LEA's fiscal health and risk of insolvency in the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Separate versions exist for TK-12, charter schools, and community colleges.
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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.
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