University of California Announces Minimum Wage Increase To $15/Hour By 2017
The minimum wage for University of California employees and contract workers will increase to $15 an hour by fall 2017.
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The minimum wage for University of California employees and contract workers will increase to $15 an hour by fall 2017.
An anonymous person has donated $34 million dollars to the Oakland Unified School District and dozens of nonprofit organizations to help children and low-income entrepreneurs.
After surviving war in his homeland as a boy along with years as a refugee in hopeless conditions, a young Afghan man whose family resettled in Concord has graduated from college and is now setting his sights even higher.
100 percent of the teenagers in the Students Rising Above program are graduating and headed to college. Here are three of their stories.
Don't be surprised if the meat in your child's school lunch looks more like Greek yogurt. The USDA selected Chobani to provide it's thick, protein-rich strained yogurt to public schools nationwide, as a meat substitute.
While the Common Core education standards provoked political backlash and testing boycotts around the country this year, the state that educates more public school children than any other -- California -- was conspicuously absent from the debate.
Mexican immigrant Carlos Alvarez says in a university news release that opportunities in America have enabled him to donate to the education of future craft brewers.
Friday is graduation day at an unusual K-8 school in California -- and there is only one graduate. He's part of an experiment in San Francisco called AltSchool that could re-define how your kids get an education, reports Ben Tracy.
Google's most recent demographic data underscores the challenges it faces as it tries to add more women, blacks and Hispanics to its payroll.
Congratulations! You've just graduated from college, landed a job, and you're ready to take on the world. You may want to take on a roommate, or two, if you are planning to rent an apartment.
The filling station was installed on Earth Day on Gunn High School to curb the use of plastic water bottles on campus.
Intel has pledged $5 million over the next five years to create a pilot project Oakland schools that will produce hundreds of computer scientists.
Deborah "Gaby" Gonzalez is set to begin classes at Brandeis University this fall but her remarkable story began in poverty and violence in her native Guatemala.
If the waiting lists are any indication, charter schools are are more popular than ever before in California.
In ongoing efforts to diversify Silicon Valley's tech sector, Google is embedding engineers at a handful of historically black colleges and universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum.
