September 22, 2017

In this edition of “This Week in California Education,” Executive Director Louis Freedberg, Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald and producer Sarah Tan discuss what happened in the waning hours of California’s legislature session and interview CSU Northridge’s Director of Developmental Mathematics, Katherine Stevenson.

  • CSU’s faculty is rebelling against recently announced changes in remedial education and math requirements at the 23-campus system and is seeking delays of at least a year (read story).
  • What education bills what didn’t pass in the California Legislature and what did; the latter includes legislation to forbid ‘meal shaming,’ the practice of denying kids full meals when their parents fall behind in lunch payments (read story).

Produced by Sarah Tan