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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.

Student homelessness rises in California even as overall enrollment falls

Aug 26, 2026

Nearly 300,000 California K-12 students experienced homelessness in the 2024-25 school year, the highest numbers ever recorded by UCLA researchers and a 10% increase from the prior peak in the 2018-19 school year.

Ex-San Leandro teacher avoids jail for ‘campaign’ of racist threats against school officials

Aug 26, 2026

A former substitute teacher avoided jail or house arrest after pleading guilty to mailing racist and threatening communications to school officials, including threats to shoot and kill Black students at an elementary school.

San Jose school district ponders creative solutions for worker housing

Aug 26, 2026

School officials are pondering two distinct approaches to create housing in San Jose for teachers and staffers: buy a housing tower or develop homes from the ground up.

For this Los Gatos High teacher, the future is offline

Aug 26, 2026

For the last year, Homa has been requiring students in his honors economics and social entrepreneurship classes to handwrite their notes or use one of the five typewriters he acquired with funds from the high school’s New Millennium Foundation. Homa’s approach to education is part of a trend of educators who are trying to combat AI use and smartphone reliance in their classrooms.

County officials seek California law change amid Sac City Unified’s fiscal crisis

Aug 26, 2026

California County Superintendents, a statewide association representing all 58 county offices of education that oversee school district finances, sent lawmakers a proposal Tuesday to require approval from the State Board of Education president before the state superintendent can assume a county office’s fiscal oversight authority.

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Our Services

These three services represent the people and skills behind FCMAT and our dedication to California's educational system.

Professional Learning Workshops

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.

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California School Information Services (CSIS)

As 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.

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Fiscal Health Risk Analysis (FHRA) and Indicators of Risk or Potential Insolvency

FCMAT 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

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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