By narrow margins last week, the Senate and House both approved the final version of HR 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, that enacts the President’s domestic agenda which includes making permanent the 2017 tax cuts, increasing funding for border control and defense, extending the debt ceiling, and enacting changes to Medicaid, supplemental food programs and other policies.
“The July 1 announcement by the federal government that it would freeze billions of education dollars previously approved by Congress and due to go out to schools that same day, is an outright travesty,” said CSBA CEO & Executive Director Vernon M. Billy. “It ignores […]
On May 21, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) published, “Proposed Priorities and Definitions-Secretary’s Supplemental Priorities and Definitions on Evidence-Based Literacy, Education Choice, and Returning Education to the States” in the Federal Register. The proposed rule is part of the federal rulemaking process used by […]
By Erika Hoffman, CSBA Deputy Legislative Director for State and Federal Programs On May 30, the Trump Administration submitted full details for the President’s proposed fiscal year 2026 education budget, which fills in the data and information that was not included in the original “skinny” […]
Assertive advocacy, practical policy and bipartisan spirit were on display as more than 300 California school trustees and superintendents converged on the nation’s capital for the fourth annual CSBA‑ACSA Coast2Coast Federal Advocacy Trip. As part of the largest delegation in Coast2Cost history, participants sharpened their advocacy skills, absorbed timely policy insight and delivered an unequivocal message to Congress: strong public schools are America’s best investment, and California’s 5.8 million students can’t wait for political gridlock to clear before their needs are met.
In California, the number of IDEA-eligible school-age individuals changed 4.2 percent from 758,272 in 2022 to 790,465 in 2023.
The Trump Administration continued its flurry of executive orders on Jan. 29, issuing three declarations with significant implications for public education. The new executive orders seek to end what the Administration describes as “indoctrination” in K-12 schools, launch a federal school choice initiative and facilitate […]
