There's no "silver-bullet" solution or perfect curriculum for building an academically solid cohort of students. Instead, leaders ought to focus on these three areas.
Districts in California have until July, 2026 to "limit or prohibit" smartphones in schools. Students will still be allowed to use their phones in the case of an emergency or in response to a perceived threat of danger.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict students' use of smartphones on campus. And the South Carolina State Board of Education is expected to approve guidelines Tuesday on limiting student phone access.
The Chino Valley Unified School District, involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district's gender-identity policy, sued Gov. Gavin Newsom over a new law banning districts from requiring that parents be notified of their child's gender identification change.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that will make California the first U.S. state to stop school districts from notifying parents if their child starts using different pronouns or identifies as a different gender than what’s on their school record.
A slew of education leaders in several states, including Florida, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma and South Carolina, publicly advised school districts not to comply with the Biden administration's ruling.
What California Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t committed to yet is whether to reform a method of sharing state matching money that has long favored property-rich districts over their property-poor neighbors.
