A draft version of California’s state-mandated ethnic studies curriculum for high schools has some people up in arms.
But schools are moving in the right direction.
The programs could help address the sector’s labor shortage, as well as economic woes. Beyond that, they could introduce a new level of diversity to agriculture’s workforce, which is still predominately white.
The Equality California Institute surveyed 130 K-12 school districts to determine how many have embraced more than half a dozen state laws and other policies aimed at protecting LGBT students.
California high school students could get a crash course in “adulting” under a bill just introduced in the California State Assembly.
The San Dieguito Union High School District Board voted unanimously Sunday to fire Superintendent Cheryl James-Ward, effective Aug. 15.
The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District board joined a massive culture war Tuesday night with a 3-2 vote to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) from being taught in schools.
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his May revision to the 2022-2023 budget proposal on Friday.
Should non-citizens be able to vote on school board elections that impact the schools their children attend? That question will be put before Oakland voters this November.
California has the fifth largest economy in the world and it currently has the largest budget surplus of any state in history.