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Thousands of CSU Faculty Strike… During National School Choice Week

January 22, 2024 2:30 pmJanuary 22, 2024 9:48 pm

This week is National School Choice Week. As states across the country are enacting universal school choice programs to allow all children to access education options, more than 30,000 California State University faculty have walked off the job in a...

Newsom’s Proposed Education Budget Grows as Students Test Scores Continue to Drop

January 16, 2024 2:31 pmJanuary 17, 2024 3:49 pm

Last week California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his 2024-2025 state budget, feigning indignation over the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s recent update on the state’s actual budget deficit, which the LAO put at $68 billion. Newsom’s $330 billion budget has supposedly been...

Los Angeles and Oakland Get ‘F’ Grades for Charter Funding ‘Equity’

August 22, 2023 2:20 pmAugust 22, 2023 2:40 pm

The University of Arkansas study compared funding for regular public schools and charter schools in 18 cities across the country using 2019-2020 budget data. Historically, regular public schools have been funded more generously than charter schools, which are autonomous publicly...

Expansion of Title IX Tramples First Amendment

September 6, 2022 2:30 amSeptember 5, 2022 1:45 pm

Title IX, the federal law enacted to combat discrimination based on gender just recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Enacted in 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendments protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that...

California Public School Enrollment Drops by Another 110,000 Students – Fifth Decline in a Row

April 15, 2022 7:47 amApril 15, 2022 11:06 am

Across California, state figures showed that K-12 enrollment fell by 160,000 students in 2020, which was a 3-percent dip and the largest drop in enrollment in twenty years, the Globe reported last fall in October. The Los Angeles Times is now...

California Schools Ignoring Unsuitable, Graphic Sex Curriculum, Student Sexual Harassment

March 14, 2022 9:35 amMarch 16, 2022 6:28 am

Last year, California’s public school population saw a drop by 160,000 kids. Some experts say that enrollment drop was even higher. This year, experts expect even more parents to pull their kids from public schools, for myriad reasons. When Gov....

California Parents and Kids are Abandoning Public Schools with Gov. Newsom’s Attack on Parent Choice

October 4, 2021 5:09 pmApril 3, 2022 7:48 am

Only hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Friday announcement of a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all schoolchildren of FDA approval age in California, homeschooling and tutoring inquiries shot up dramatically, with some homeschooling sites even going down to the sheer...