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2024 Election $10 Billion K-12 Community College Bond Act

April 27, 2023 2:45 amApril 27, 2023 2:46 am

A bill to place a proposition on the 2024 ballot over a $10 billion bond in state matching funds for K-12 and California Community College new school construction and modernization was passed in the Assembly Higher Education Committee on Wednesday....

Doesn’t Gov. Newsom Remember Why California Banned State Travel to Florida?

April 6, 2023 7:28 amApril 10, 2023 1:05 pm

Where is the California Capitol press corps as Gov. Gavin Newsom travels to Red States trolling their governors violating his own State Travel Ban to Red States? As a headline on the Flash Report states: Lazy CA Press Corps Misses the...

OPINION: The Sexualization of Students in CA Schools is Escalating to an Ugly Place

April 3, 2023 12:02 pmNovember 21, 2024 3:26 pm

California public schools aren’t your grandfather’s schools any longer. Today’s lesson plans are written by Social Justice Warriors and LGBT activists, and enshrined in the California education code. And what is being foisted on children as young as age five,...

Legislation to Ensure Financial Literacy Education Fails in Senate Committee

March 30, 2023 1:54 pmMarch 30, 2023 2:54 pm

This week, SB 342 was up for a vote in the Senate’s Education Committee. The bill would offer a simple language change to existing law, making it mandatory for California’s Instructional Quality Commission to include financial literacy education in K-12...

Politicized Education Explains Steep Academic Declines and Big Achievement Gaps in California

November 3, 2022 2:50 amNovember 2, 2022 7:49 pm

Public education in California has reached a crisis point. While it is true that the Golden State has consistently trailed behind other states in standardized test scores, latest results for 2022 from the Nation’s Report Card show further declines in reading and...

State Withholds Release of Presumably Poor Student Test Scores Until After Election

September 23, 2022 10:02 amSeptember 23, 2022 11:22 am

In a brazenly political move, California Superintendent of Instruction Tony Thurmond and the California Department of Education announced they will not release statewide student test scores until after the November election. “In a significant departure, the California Department of Education...

Liberated Ethnic Studies Comes to K-5 Classrooms

June 20, 2022 3:42 pmJune 20, 2022 4:45 pm

In October 2021, Governor Newsom signed California’s ethnic studies mandate for high schools into law. While many school districts are still deciding on the specific curricula contents for their high school ethnic studies courses, a group of teacher activists have...