$6.2 billion recently withheld from schools and $12 billion in proposed education cuts are separate from the bill signed last week.
Author Archives: John Fensterwald, EdSource
John Fensterwald, staff writer, joined EdSource in 2012. Before that, he was editor and co-writer for The Educated Guess website, a leading source of California education policy reporting and opinion, which he founded in 2009. For 11 years before then, John wrote editorials for the Mercury News in San Jose, with a focus on education. He worked as a reporter, news editor and opinion editor for three newspapers in New Hampshire before receiving a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. His wife is a retired elementary school teacher, and their daughter is a neurologist who received her training at UC Davis Medical School and her residency at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Posted inEducation
Californians ding Newsom’s, lawmakers’ handling of schools in survey
Post-pandemic school challenges have soured a public that also is wary of the impact of President Donald Trump’s immigration actions against undocumented families.
Posted inPolitics & Government
Trump signs executive order to dismantle Department of Education
The order directs U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to work toward shutting down the federal agency.
Posted in2024 Election
California voters say yes to $10 billion school construction bond
Proposition 2 will fund community college projects and TK-12 modernization and new construction.