President and Administration
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about the dangers of fake online pharmacies that sell counterfeit medications that frequently contain fentanyl…
President Biden signed an Executive Order Thursday (9/26) that seeks to ensure active school shooter drills are helpful without causing unnecessary panic…
Similarly, after a series of controversial active-shooter drills at California schools involving a masked man using a fake gun…
California
California’s long-awaited $25-per-hour health care worker minimum wage will start rolling out in October…
A California dairy worker tested presumptively positive for avian flu after experiencing mild symptoms…
Six months after a scathing state audit found that California had failed to track the $24 billion it spent to combat homelessness over the past half-decade…
Proposition 36, the ballot measure to increase penalties for certain drug and theft crimes, continues to gain support…
Education
Vice presidential candidates Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sparred over school shootings and migrant students in their 2024 election debate…
In a nationally representative survey conducted by the EdWeek Research Center this summer, a quarter of teachers and school leaders polled said that politics…
Low performing schools are twice as likely to have lost substantial numbers of students – with nearly 500 losing 20 percent or more since the pandemic…
The EdWeek Research Center surveyed K-12 educators and high school students to learn more about how they view the conditions in their schools…
Federal ESSER funds provided for COVID-19 relief boosted student outcomes and helped schools through an economic crisis…