"Admissions offices increasingly recognize that test requirements, given their negative disparate impact on Black and Latinx applicants, are 'race-conscious' factors, which can create unfair barriers to access higher education," said FairTest Executive Harry Feder. "They also know that standardized exams are, at best, weak predictors of academic success and largely unrelated to college-ready skills and knowledge."

Paramount to the plan is a 25% reduction of statewide standards compared to what is currently in place. Only a third of the standards that will remain have been identified as "essential."

In Los Angeles, parents said they were protesting LGBTQ+ instruction in schools while holding signs that read, among other things, "No pride in grooming." Meanwhile, across the street, advocates of LGBTQ+ rights and education were counterprotesting.

The Frazier Community Library has recently found itself at the center of a dispute after a Pennsylvania district's school board voted to evict the facility over security concerns.