State lawmakers introduced their plan Thursday to get California students back in the classroom as quickly as possible.
President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders on his first day in office.
Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside), who authored the bill, expressed surprise at the governor’s decision. He called the veto a “disservice” to students and “a failure to push back against the racial rhetoric and bullying of Donald Trump."
Federal funding comprised just 8.4% of special education costs in California in 2018-19. Under Biden’s platform, which would have to be adopted by Congress, California schools could get an additional $2.66 billion annually for special education.
The California Department of Education will be allotted more flexibility in the way it uses federal dollars.
Gavin Newsom has reassured school districts that their funding with continue.
After years of debate and hundreds of revisions, the California Board of Education has signed off on curriculum for t
California voters have rejected a statewide ballot measure that would have reinstated affirmative action in college admissions processes in California.
The school advocacy group, Great Public Schools Now, released a report last week detailing the pandemic’s impact on students in the state’s largest school district, LA Unified.
