Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell Archives

Assembly Passes Bill Giving Local School Districts Power To Deny Funds to Home Schoolers

May 24, 2019 7:54 amMay 24, 2019 8:37 am

Teacher’s unions and local school districts have been pushing hard at the Capitol to target, limit and even eradicate charter schools, claiming that charters are draining resources from traditional public school districts. Traditional public school districts are laboring under crippling...

California Teachers Union’s ‘Intent to Cripple California’s Charter Schools’

April 12, 2019 2:05 amApril 12, 2019 9:59 am

A powerful liaison of aggressive teacher unions and politicians supported by them have produced a package of bills which threaten to destroy California’s wildly popular and successful charter schools, and the 630,000 school children who benefit from them. And the...

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...