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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...

What Is in California’s Code of Regulations Title 5?

May 16, 2022 2:13 amMay 15, 2022 6:18 pm

The California Code of Regulations (CCR) Title 5 is one of 27 Titles that contain state regulations. Title 5, called “Education,” contains 13 Divisions. There are also numerous chapters and articles containing regulatory sections, or individual regulations. The following is...

California Refuses to Give Up ‘Woke Math’

May 12, 2022 7:39 am

“Like the return of the undead, woke math has come back to haunt California’s classrooms and make it even harder for the state’s struggling students to receive a quality education,” Lance Izumi, Senior Director of the Center for Education at...