The governor announced the penalty less than 24 hours after a nearly six-hour school board meeting that dissolved into shouts and jeers multiple times.
Some Temecula Valley USD board members claimed there was not enough parental involvement in the curriculum creation process and made comments attacking gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk.
With students and teachers protesting Tuesday over the narrowing of a social studies curriculum, the Temecula Valley Unified School District's board fired its superintendent, Jodi McClay.
Black students’ standardized test scores and graduation rates have long trailed those of their white and Asian peers. For decades, educators and legislators have tried to close that achievement gap, and a school funding proposal in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget illustrates just how difficult it is to do .
Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $2.7 billion initiative to expand transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds. The state gave school districts only 13 months to prepare for the first wave of the expansion, which began this school year.
The good news, at least for schools and community colleges, is that even if state revenues were to plummet, they'd be far better positioned to weather a sizable downtown than in the past – for reasons of foresight and luck.
State plans to give schools a record $128.3 billion and expand its per-student spending to $22,850 to fund universal kindergarten, college savings accounts for all students, youth mental health, and teacher training and recruitment, among other needs.
