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May 02, 2025
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Drummond v. Oklahoma, a high-profile case addressing whether the State of Oklahoma can prohibit religious charter schools.
January 15, 2025
Yesterday (January 14), Governor Newsom issued executive order N-6-25 clarifying and relaxing a few laws for schools in Los Angeles County that have been impacted by the wildfires...
January 10, 2025
Governor Newsom’s Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw issued a rosy, if tentative, budget proposal for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year this week. The proposal is a positive one for K-12 education...
October 29, 2024
On Monday, October 28, 2024, the California Department of Education (CDE) posted a revised list of 2023 charter school renewal categories. California law provides four sets of provisions governing...
August 30, 2024
Charter school employers may need to accelerate employee pay raises on January 1, 2025, if voters approve a change to minimum wage laws in California.
July 12, 2024
The 2024-25 state budget education “trailer” bill enacted a few modest, but noteworthy changes to independent study law allowing schools to count asynchronous instruction toward computing...
June 28, 2024
The legislature passed a set of budget and related “trailer” bills this week that reflect a full budget package negotiated with the support of Governor Newsom and that amend a prior...
June 14, 2024
Federal District Court Judge John A. Mendez ruled last week that, as public schools, two California charter schools need not provide religious instructional materials...
May 31, 2024
Outlines surfaced this week in Sacramento, including an alternative to the governor’s controversial “funding maneuver” and governor’s K-12 education program funding proposals.