May 15, 2020

This week, California State University, the nation’s largest system of 4-year universities, announced that the fall semester would be all online. Chancellor Tim White explains the timing of the decision, the extent to which changing conditions of the coronavirus may allow some of CSU’s 23 universities to offer limited in-person learning and how the system is adapting to change.

Plus, EdSource reporters John Fensterwald and Larry Gordon sum up the big budget cuts, and glimmers of good news for education, in the revised state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom released. The gist: It’s bleak for higher education and bad — but could have been far worse — for K-12.

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