Ten local teachers unions under the umbrella of the California Teachers Association worked for years to align their contracts so they’d expire at the same time: June 30, 2025. bit.ly/4cj0pcF 📸 Jeff Chiu, AP

Trump’s budget includes nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which funds a wide swath of services to disabled children, including speech, occupational and physical therapy, wheelchairs, in-home aides and medical care. bit.ly/4iASatw 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Zaydee Sanchez

Cal Bears get early bowl invitation, will spend Christmas Eve in Hawaii trib.al/ndcygRX

California’s K-12 students showed moderate progress academically last year, with some bright spots but otherwise plateauing after years of post-pandemic improvements, according to the new California School Dashboard released today. bit.ly/4qSf0k5 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Shelby Knowles

“Nonetheless, about 85% of teachers and students use AI in the classroom, CDT found [in recent research]. Teachers use it to organize lesson plans and grade papers, & students use it to do things like research and brainstorming.” calmatters.org/educa... Cc: CalMatters' @carolynjones100.bsky.social

Keeping up with students’ methods of cheating has always been a cat-and-mouse game for teachers. But some now say that AI tools, particularly Google Lens, have made it impossible to enforce academic integrity in the classroom. bit.ly/3Lww7rK 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Lauren Justice

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This seemed like a political fantasy four months ago: California voters approve redistricting plan that could net five more House seats for Democrats www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

State education officials found that OUSD created a discriminatory environment in three incidents, including the distribution of a map of the Middle East without Israel. An Arab American organization says the complainants conflated criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

California has 500,000 young people jobless or not in school. Men are especially at risk, facing disconnection and isolation at levels the governor has described as a “crisis” (and blamed his own party for ignoring them) calmatters.org/economy/2025...

“We weren’t looking for the top students. We were looking for the disengaged kids,” said Staci Bynum, CART’s dean of curriculum and instruction who’s been at the school since its inception. “The C kid is going to excel here.” bit.ly/4hw1ApQ 📝 @carolynjones100.bsky.social 📸 Larry Valenzuela

"Great people," including tech moguls Marc Benioff and Jensen Huang, appealed to the president directly to get him to call off a planned operation in San Francisco after immigration agents started mobilizing in the East Bay on Wednesday @carolynjones100.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

California has a special election Nov. 4. Wondering how to vote? @calmatters.org has answers! www.tiktok.com/@calmatters/...

If Toni Atkins is elected governor next year, she would oversee a state contract that puts money in her own pocket. It’s just one potential conflict of interest with her spouse’s consulting firms, which have dozens of clients that lobby state government. calmatters.org/politics/202...

The Senate is debating the recission bill that would claw back appropriations for foreign aid and public broadcasting, if you care to watch on C-Span. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being, @carolynjones100.bsky.social writes calmatters.org/education/20...

At least $33 million in supplemental funding for rural California counties with large swaths of federal land that can’t be taxed was not included in the recent federal budget, @carolynjones100.bsky.social reports calmatters.org/education/k-...