California
LAUSD and SDUSD announced on 7/13/20 that they will be providing virtual-only instruction when school resumes…
In recent weeks, LA County has not been able to meet the high demand for COVID-19 testing, while Orange County, which has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the state and the fourth-most deaths, is also grappling with a surge in infections and hospitalizations in recent weeks…
Coronavirus
On Sunday several representative from the White House and administrative agencies began raising public doubts or concerns with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s statements…
On 7/13/20 seventeen states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to block the rule change that would prohibit international students taking primarily or fully online classes from entering the country with a student visa…
Congress
House appropriators plowed through all their subcommittee markups and five of their 12 full committee markups last week, but the outlook for funding the government remains murky because of the Senate’s inaction, lawmakers say…
President and Administration
President Trump on Friday, 7/10, said he plans to unveil sometime in the next month an immigration measure that he said would include some protections for DACA — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provides for work permits and other protections for people brought to the U.S. as children by undocumented parents…
Education
Sixty percent of college students say the pandemic has made it harder to access mental health care, even as financial stresses and prevalence of depression increased among them, according to a new survey on the impact of COVID-19 on student well-being…
Secretary DeVos said on “Fox News Sunday” that “nothing in the data” suggests children being in school is “in any way dangerous” - an assertion challenged by a top public health official on the same program…
President Donald Trump’s call to investigate the nonprofit status of universities could run into legal problems, including guardrails Congress placed on the IRS after a scandal over the agency’s scrutiny of nonprofit status of conservative political groups…