All high school students, starting with this year’s freshmen class, were expected to be required to take an ethnic studies class in order to graduate. But the implementation of the “ethnic studies mandate” is contingent on being funded. There was no funding for it in this year’s state budget.
Reduction-in-force notices were sent to hundreds of staff at the U.S. Department of Education. Impacted staff primarily oversee programs supporting vulnerable student groups. Education leaders say they are shocked by the reductions, which will impact students with disabilities.
California aims to cut chronic absenteeism in half over the next five years and has issued a guide to help districts meet that goal.
