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After Denying Learning Loss, UTLA Opposes Teaching Days to Catch Kids Up

September 8, 2022 7:32 amSeptember 8, 2022 7:54 am

As the school year begins, California’s schools are in dire shape. According to the most recent statewide Smarter Balanced assessments, more than 60 percent of third graders are reading below their grade level. Across all grade levels, roughly half of...

Some Interesting Provisions in AB 587 on Social Media Companies

September 8, 2022 6:36 amSeptember 8, 2022 6:59 am

In reading some of the bills headed to Governor Newsom’s Desk after the conclusion of the 2022 Legislative Session, Assembly Bill 587 has two intriguing provisions. AB 587 would add Chapter 22.8 (commencing with Section 22675 to Division 8 of...

Restaurants File for Referendum to Stop California’s New Fast Food Worker Law

September 8, 2022 2:16 amSeptember 9, 2022 6:37 am

A coalition of restaurant owners began the first steps toward blocking the recently signed AB 257 law on Wednesday, California’s new fast food worker law, by filing a referendum request with the California Attorney General. The AB 257 law, authored...

CA Teachers Union Did Oppo Research on Parents Who Wanted Schools to Reopen During COVID

September 7, 2022 5:51 pmSeptember 7, 2022 6:51 pm

Reopen California Schools just exposed via emails received through California Public Records Act requests that the California Teachers Association labor union conducted opposition research on parent groups pushing for school reopening during the government ordered COVID school shutdowns in California. https://twitter.com/ReopenCASchools/status/1566899054906290176 Opposition...

Do Misspellings Get into California Statutes?

September 7, 2022 3:54 pmSeptember 7, 2022 3:57 pm

It may be a surprise, but occasionally a bill makes it all the way through the legislative process, and is enacted into law, and thereafter needs to be corrected because of a misspelling. The following is a recent example from...

Entire SLO County DAs Office Recused from 2020 Black Lives Matter Protest Arrest Case

September 7, 2022 3:05 pmSeptember 8, 2022 1:41 pm

In July 2020, several hundred Black Lives Matter protestors marched onto Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo County, and occupying both north and south lanes, closed both directions of the freeway, and freeway on and off-ramps. Numerous cars were damaged by...

EMT, Paramedic Human Trafficking Training Bill Signed by Gov. Newsom

September 7, 2022 12:14 pm

A bill that would require California EMTs and Paramedics to undergo training pertaining to human trafficking was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. Assembly Bill 2130, authored by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-Paso Robles), would require an EMT-I,...