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Why High School Graduates Turn Out to Be College Illiterates

June 14, 2024 8:30 amJune 14, 2024 8:33 am

“Too many high school graduates are in for a rude awakening when they discover that their K-12 public education has left them woefully unprepared for the rigors of college coursework,” warns Lance Izumi, senior director of the Center for Education...

SCOTUS Rules Race Cannot Be Considered For University Admissions

June 30, 2023 2:08 pmJune 30, 2023 2:09 pm

This is Part III of a series on two U.S. Supreme Cases which will decide if racial preferences in college application acceptances will be allowed to continue at publicly funded schools. The wheels of justice churn slowly–especially when it comes...

EPA Approves New CA Zero Emissions Electric Truck Regulation by 2035

March 31, 2023 2:29 pmMarch 31, 2023 3:10 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced their approval of California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulations on Friday, officially allowing California and six others states to have certain benchmarks for the sales and road use of zero emission trucks and heavy duty...

California AG Sues Trump Administration Over Federal Coronavirus Relief Funds for Schools

July 8, 2020 8:20 pmJuly 8, 2020 8:27 pm

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued the Trump Education Department on Tuesday over its decision to make federal coronavirus relief funds readily available to private schools by supposedly applying the wrong standard on how money is appropriated. The federal Coronavirus...

University of California System to End All ACT, SAT Admittance Tests

May 22, 2020 2:20 pmMay 22, 2020 5:14 pm

On Thursday, the University of California (UC) Board of Regents voted to remove the ACT and SAT tests in considering students. A decision factored by ‘unfair testing’ and admittance scandals The decision, which affects top nationally ranked Universities such as...

California State University joins University of California Suspend ACT/SAT Requirements Due to Coronavirus

April 21, 2020 5:04 pm

Over the weekend, the California State University system joined the University of California system in temporarily dropping ACT and SAT test scores as requirements for admission due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Spring SAT and ACT tests had been halted nationwide...

Assemblyman O’Donnell Combats College Admissions Cheating by Allowing Students to Take Tests at School

March 28, 2019 7:31 amMarch 28, 2019 8:38 am

Following the recent college admissions scandal, a California lawmaker is renewing a push to allow school districts to replace certain standardized tests given to high schoolers with free versions of a national aptitude test used by many colleges and universities...