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CA Auditor Report: State Distributed Double CARES Act Funding To Larger Counties

January 21, 2021 3:25 pmJanuary 21, 2021 3:25 pm

The California State Auditor Elaine Howle just released a report exposing that the state distributed $9.5 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds with smaller counties receiving barely half of the funding per person than larger counties. “In August 2020, we...

California Department of Education Announces New Statewide Anti-Racism Program

September 22, 2020 3:16 pm

On Monday, the California Department of Education announced new anti-racism classes and instructor training called “Education to End Hate,” only days after President Donald Trump said that he would sign an Executive Order to establish an educational commission to develop...

California Public School Buildings to Close for Rest of Year

March 31, 2020 8:43 pm

On Tuesday, California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced that all public schools in California will be closed through the end of the school year. Closed buildings, open schools School buildings will remain closed because of COVID-19 coronavirus social...

School-Sent Firearm Storage Material Bill Passes Assembly Committee

January 17, 2020 4:13 pm

A bill that would send parents materials on safe home firearm storage through schools has unanimously passed a second Assembly committee vote. Under AB 276, authored by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), the Department of Education and Department of Justice would...

Role of the California Superintendent of Public Instruction

August 26, 2019 6:05 amAugust 25, 2019 5:34 pm

The State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) is the nonpartisan (originally partisan) elected executive officer of the California Department of Education. The SPI directs all functions of the Department of Education, executes policies set by the California State Board of...

Chronicle of a ‘Justice-Involved Person’

August 24, 2019 7:29 amAugust 25, 2019 9:48 am

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will now call “justice-involved person” someone previously known as a “convicted felon.” That term includes some in the high ranks of California government, national figures in the field of education. Attorney Bill Honig, State...

High School U.S. History in California Taught ‘From Perspective of Marginalized Groups’

August 16, 2019 7:52 amAugust 17, 2019 2:43 pm

California public schools are in dire straits. Teachers who support Western Civilization are fired. Pornographic sex ed is taught to Kindergarten students. Social justice, environmental justice, “unconscious bias” and “inclusivity” instruction, take priority over U.S. History, Math, English Literature, and...