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October 4, 2019
New laws also ease dual-enrollment for adults and high schoolers.
October 3, 2019
For the first time, school districts will be able to consider a proposed charter school’s financial impact.
October 2, 2019
The new law requires doctors to screen children enrolled in Medi-Cal for developmental delays three times before they turn 3.
September 19, 2019
The debate over whether ethnic studies is an appropriate and valuable course for high school students was settled long ago.
September 16, 2019
If the bill is approved, California will join 14 other states and the District of Columbia in requiring districts to offer full-day kindergarten.
September 11, 2019
Some schools may not yet have enough math and science courses to offer a State Seal of STEM.
September 6, 2019
California Governor Gavin Newsom agreed to sign legislation that tightens restrictions on medical exemptions that allow students to attend school without all the required vaccinations if lawmakers promise to pass revisions in a second bill.
September 6, 2019
If the governor signs the bill into law, teachers would receive at least six weeks of paid maternity leave.
September 4, 2019
The bill would allow the state to review a medical exemption if a child attends a school with an immunization rate of less than 95 percent.
September 4, 2019
California charter school teachers may soon have to get the same background checks and credentials as teachers in regular public schools.
August 23, 2019
José Medina will bring back Assembly Bill 331 next year, after there has been time to redraft the controversial ethnic studies curriculum.
August 13, 2019
Increasing financial aid for California college students among 21 new proposals
August 9, 2019
Before the end of September, the Legislature will decide on bills that could significantly affect K-12 schools; here's what some of them are.
June 20, 2019
Proposed changes to California's 2015 vaccination law now being considered in the Legislature would limit medical exemptions.
May 20, 2019
The guardians of four special education students claim their children were illegally put in restraint holds and secluded.