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The latest issue of Eyes on the Early Years, EdSource’s free, monthly newsletter on issues affecting children from infancy through 3rd grade, is now available with news and features about Common Core math, the proposal to expand transitional kindergarten and a summary of three bills before the state Legislature that would affect early education. You can also find links to a story from The Atlantic about a playground in Wales where kids are allowed to start fires and a gruesome database of child deaths in Florida that The Miami Herald has tied to lax child welfare policies.
Legislation that would remove one of the last tests teachers are required to take to earn a credential in California passed the Senate Education Committee.
Part-time instructors, many who work for decades off the tenure track and at a lower pay rate, have been called “apprentices to nowhere.”
A bill to mandate use of the method will not advance in the Legislature this year in the face of teachers union opposition.
Nearly a third of the 930 districts statewide that reported data had a higher rate of chronic absenteeism in 2022-23 than the year before.
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