According to new guidance released by the California Department of Public Health on Aug. 25, local educational agencies in counties on the state’s COVID-19 monitoring list can offer in-person, targeted, specialized support and services to small groups of students as outlined below. The guidance allows […]
On Aug. 21, 2020, a federal judge ruled against the U.S. Department of Education in Washington v. DeVos, a lawsuit over how much coronavirus aid public schools must set aside for private school students. The U.S. Department of Education’s interim final rule issued earlier this […]
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla recently announced the California Census Challenge, a statewide competition with the goal of increasing the census self-response rates of the state’s cities and counties while decreasing the need for at-home visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. If the current lack […]
Now that the budget dust has settled and Gov. Gavin Newsom has issues much more concrete guidance for reopening schools, I know we are all hard at work figuring out how to make the 2020-21 school year work best for all students. And by the […]
In the topsy-turvy leadup to the 2020–21 school year, the most recent pressing issues involve the logistics of when and how campuses could or should physically reopen. While opening dates are critical for the operations of school districts, national education observers and advocates said at […]
The abrupt shift to distance learning this spring revealed glaring and significant disparities that have long been present in student access to technology. Campus closures also highlighted another problem: there is little understanding of how to best educate students with disabilities via distance learning. An […]
On Aug. 12, 2020, in Pennsylvania v. Devos, a federal district court denied a request to stop the Title IX regulations implementation of the published by the U.S. Department of Education last May. The rules contain specific requirements for inclusion in the processes for investigating […]
Though the majority of districts in California are beginning the 2020–21 academic year through distance learning, campuses will eventually reopen for in-person instruction, and many students and staff are likely to return to facilities desperately in need of repair, according to a new report from […]
A revised draft of the California Department of Education’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum was presented to the Instructional Quality Commission on Aug. 13, after reviewing thousands of critical comments of the initial draft. The first draft had been criticized by advocacy groups as promoting anti-Semitism […]
Due to the unpredictable nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and out of an abundance of caution, CSBA has decided that the 2020 Annual Education Conference (AEC), scheduled in Anaheim, will go virtual. CSBA has taken into consideration the recent trend of COVID-19 cases throughout the […]
