Tag: California schools
Should California Schools Keep a Child’s Gender Identity Secret From Parents?
As battles rage between local school districts in California and the state Attorney General Rob Bonta regarding whether or not schools should notify parents if their child identifies as transgender or nonbinary at school, I think it’s strange—as a California...
Politicized Education Explains Steep Academic Declines and Big Achievement Gaps in California
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...
Gov. Gavin Newsom – A Tinhorn Dictatorship
One of the most frightening things I ever saw occurred in April of 2020. Gavin Newsom had just declared a “public health emergency,” seized “emergency” powers, and bureaucrats were running through the city in which I lived in “red-tagging” small...
California Refuses to Give Up ‘Woke Math’
“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...
Sen. Portantino Authors Bill to Force Parents to Disclose Guns in the Home
Recently introduced legislation proposes to mandate that parents of public school children must disclose to the school district if they have guns in the home, how they are stored and if they are accessible to the children. This bill appears...
New UC Berkeley Poll Finds Gov. Newsom Losing Ground With Voters
A poll released Tuesday by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies shows California Governor Gavin Newsom’s approval rating is sinking across most voter groups. Most Californians won’t be surprised why: continuing COVID restrictions two years in, never-ending mask mandates on...