June 25, 2018
(Calif.) With an important legislative deadline quickly approaching, Senate education committee members passed about a dozen bills last week targeting topics including time off for teen parents, statewide assessment options and charter school transparency.
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June 25, 2018
(Texas) As a badly divided Congress grapples with immigration reform, the Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval of a new course that one day would likely detail the chaotic events of recent weeks in the Capitol.
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June 20, 2018
(Calif.) Tax revenues in May came in almost exactly as predicted but state officials are waiting to see how things will look by the end of June, the second most important collection month.
June 20, 2018
(Conn.) Following the deaths of four children enrolled in early learning programs since last year, the Connecticut Commissioner of Early Childhood has authorization to spend more money to target substandard providers and to intervene.
June 19, 2018
(Ariz.) State schools chief Diane Douglas has sparked a new controversy over the newly revised science curriculum standards by taking a red pen to the word ‘evolution’ in a proposed edit of the documents.
January 30, 2017
(Calif.) The recent alarm over the potential spread of fake news has prompted two California lawmakers to call for media literacy education in schools, as evidence shows that many children and some adults are largely unable to distinguish between fact and fiction online.
December 08, 2016
(Calif.) With the state’s fiscal outlook as good as it has been perhaps in a decade, and now with Democrats holding a supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, some within the education community might have thought a conversation over the adequacy of school funding would finally happen.
January 04, 2017
(Calif.) The California State Board of Education struggled at their November meeting to find a just route in arbitrating a small school district’s request to waive–for a fourth time–professional certification requirements of an educational interpreter.
November 21, 2016
(N.M.) As schools across the country report increases in bullying and harassment based on immigration status, Santa Fe Public Schools has announced a Student Support Helpline where families can access resources.
