California
New COVID-19 cases leaped in CA last week, rising 53.4 percent as 82,368 cases were reported…
On Saturday, 11/21, Gov. Newsom ordered a state curfew requiring more than 94 percent of Californians to remain in their homes between 10 p.m and 5 a.m. unless performing essential activities…
California health officials issued a new mandate Monday, 11/16, requiring residents to wear face coverings whenever they’re outside their homes, with few exceptions…
California’s 3rd District Court of Appeals on Tuesday, 11/17, stayed an injunction from a lower court that barred Gov. Newsom from issuing executive orders that create new pandemic-related laws, the latest development in a legal challenge to the governor’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Pandemic politics have reached a boiling point in California’s school reopening debate…
Orange County officials have unveiled a plan to provide COVID-19 home test kits to residents in an effort to stop the spread of the virus…
President and Administration
President Trump made explicit Saturday, 11/21, the strategy his legal team has been hinting at for days: He wants Republican-led legislatures to overturn election results in states that Joe Biden won…
Education
Borrowers were excused by Congress from making payments during the pandemic until the end of September…
Associations representing the nation’s colleges and universities are urging the incoming Biden administration in a letter to quickly undo much of what the Trump administration did on higher education policy, starting with changing the new requirement under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 that, they worry, will make it harder for victims of sexual assault and harassment to come forward…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday, 11/17, urged President-elect Joe Biden to cancel student debt, calling it the “single biggest stimulus” for the ailing economy, a claim economists dispute…
Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos convened a group of business, education and workforce leaders at the Department of Education for a “Rethink Work-Based Learning” Event…
Congress
Advisers to President-elect Biden are planning for the increasing likelihood that the U.S. economy is headed for a “double-dip” recession early next year…
Bipartisan talks on the FY’21 funding bills have stalled over veteran’s health care funding...
House Democratic leaders are proceeding with plans to bring back earmarks for the 117th Congress, according to Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD)…
Last week, House Democrats voted to stick with Nancy Pelosi as their leader and nominee for speaker…
Democrats are making a renewed push to ban schools from using harmful physical restraint and seclusion — practices most often used for students with disabilities…