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Thomas Dee
Covid-19
August 22, 2023

The case of Cayla J: Judge to decide if California failed low-income students during Covid

Lawsuit filed in late 2020 charges California education leaders failed to protect Black, Latino and low-income children from disproportionate and enduring impacts of the pandemic.

John Fensterwald
Policy & Finance
August 18, 2023

California Ed Department backs down on punishing education researchers who testify against it

Facing withering criticism, the California Department of Education eliminated a clause in research agreements that banned researchers from testifying in lawsuits against it, as a condition to getting access to non-public data.

John Fensterwald
Policy & Finance
August 10, 2023

Harvard Law's First Amendment experts rally to Stanford professor’s defense

Top law professors Laurence Tribe and Martha Minow argue in a court filing that the California Department of Education is flagrantly abusing Thomas Dee's free speech rights.

John Fensterwald
Policy & Finance
July 28, 2023

California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got state data to study education issues

At issue is whether researchers can analyze nonpublic California student data and also testify against the state in related and even unrelated cases.

John Fensterwald
Ethnic Studies
September 7, 2021

Research finds ethnic studies in San Francisco had enduring impact

Higher rates of graduation and college enrollment are tracked to course, but researcher urges caution in interpreting the study.

John Fensterwald
Race and Equity
March 17, 2021

A final vote, after many rewrites, for California's controversial ethnic studies curriculum

The state model curriculum will provide guidelines, but districts will face the hard decisions on what and how to teach ethnic studies.

John Fensterwald