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- Schools and community colleges will be shielded from the pain facing other state services because of the revised forecast of a $12 billion drop in state revenues that Newsom blamed on the “Trump slump." More: bit.ly/4jYUudT
- Schools will receive a 2.3% cost of living adjustment; cuts for CSU and UC will be less than they had expected under the governor’s plan.
- Los Angeles Unified School District officials pushed to oust the judge slated to hear a lawsuit by former Superintendent Austin Beutner alleging that millions of dollars intended for arts and music education were misused.
- The Legislative Jewish Caucus is swapping this bill with wider support for a contested alternative calling for creating standards for ethnic studies courses.
- State Bill 243, introduced by state Sen. Steve Padilla, D-San Diego, which is soon to be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee, would require chatbot operators to create safeguards to protect users from the addictive and isolating aspects of AI chatbots.
- California Head Start programs expect to receive $1.5 billion in federal funding for the 2025 fiscal year. That funds services for 73,476 children at 2,219 sites, according to an EdSource analysis of Head Start data.
- Volunteers from the Los Angeles County Office of Education and beyond helped students get back on track in the weeks right after Eaton fire.
- OPINION: Your tax dollars could soon lift a rainbow of religious educators — from Christian academies to pro-Palestinian classrooms — as the U.S. Supreme Court teeters on forcing states to aid sectarian schools.
- Andra Hoffman, the director of the Career Center at Glendale Community College and a board member for the Los Angeles Community College District, announced her candidacy for California superintendent of public instruction.
- Ahead of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised 2025-26 budget release on Wednesday, budget analyst Rob Manwaring shares his insights.
