California Lawmakers Sacrifice Education for Politics with AB 1955
California Lawmakers Sacrifice Education for Politics with AB 1955
While California faces a significant decline in educational outcomes, student enrollment, and a fiscal crisis, progressives in the state legislature are more concerned with targeting parents than improving schools. Assembly Bill 1955, introduced by Assemblyman Chris Ward (D-San Diego), aims to ban parental notification policies passed by a growing number of California school districts over...
By Andrew Davenport
Special Book Signing Event with Author Dr. Corey DeAngelis
Special Book Signing Event with Author Dr. Corey DeAngelis
Join California Policy Center for a special book signing event with author Dr. Corey DeAngelis on Wednesday, June 5th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in Orange County. DeAngelis’s new book, The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools, takes readers inside the parent movement like no one else can. DeAngelis has traveled from state to state, leading one of the most effective...
By California Policy Center
AB 1955’s assault on parental rights and local school boards
AB 1955’s assault on parental rights and local school boards
Just when you think California legislators can’t thumb their noses at parents any harder, Assemblyman Christopher Ward (D-San Diego) introduced a bill this week that aims to strip control from local school boards. Ward’s AB 1955 — the Orwellian-named SAFETY Act — is an attempt to override the parental notification policies passed by a growing number of...
By California Policy Center
Three Wins for Common Sense
Three Wins for Common Sense
In a significant win for parental rights this week, the Jurupa Unified School Board agreed to pay California teacher Jessica Tapia $360,000 to settle her lawsuit for wrongful termination. The case has drawn national attention to the plight of teachers being illegally directed by California education officials to keep secrets from parents when their child...
By California Policy Center
How California’s College System Lost Its Way: Revisiting the State’s Master Plan for Higher Education
How California’s College System Lost Its Way: Revisiting the State’s Master Plan for Higher Education
Once the envy of the world, California’s public college and university networks have been plagued by mission creep, confusing and diluting their ability to achieve the purpose for which they were originally designed. Incremental state legislation over the years has reduced the once independent and robust tiered system — California Community Colleges (CCC), California State...
By Peter Constant
Parents—The Ultimate Education Reform
Parents—The Ultimate Education Reform
Grant Allen once lamented, “What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys’ schooling interfere with their education!” These words, often attributed to Mark Twain, encapsulate a sentiment that education transcends the walls of a schoolhouse, echoing the belief that learning should not be confined to a classroom. Increasingly,...
By Lance Christensen
CPC Parent Union’s Third Annual Parents, Not Partisans Summit
CPC Parent Union’s Third Annual Parents, Not Partisans Summit
More than 150 parent advocates, school board members and school board candidates from 28 counties across California attended CPC’s Parents, Not Partisans Summit in Sacramento in March for two days of training, networking and advocacy at the State Capitol with our allies at Protection for the Educational Rights of Kids (PERK). The third annual...
By California Policy Center
California’s Troubled Community-College System Just Got Worse
California’s Troubled Community-College System Just Got Worse
The new chancellor is sure to exacerbate the problems in a network already roiled by progressive administrators. In February, when she was tapped to run California’s troubled community-college system, Sonya Christian had cheerleaders, foremost among them Governor Gavin Newsom. “Dr. Christian is one of our nation’s most dynamic college leaders, with a demonstrated record of collaboration...
By Will Swaim
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
This month, second-graders at Valencia Elementary in Upland were met with unwelcome news: the Christmas songs that they’d practiced for weeks would be replaced with new-and-improved non-holiday songs. No matter that these children had actually voted for their favorite Christmas tunes, or that they would have to learn an entirely new songbook in a matter...
By Andrea Liu
In public schools we trust?
In public schools we trust?
For fans of dark comedy, California politics is as good as any entertainment – shot through with grim irony, corrupt politicians, and laughable hypocrisy. Consider Attorney General Rob Bonta’s legal campaign to crush the practice of seven school districts to notify parents before gender-transitioning their children. Parent notification, as it’s called, “places transgender and gender...
By Will Swaim
Why One Lawyer Worries California’s Student-Gender Policies Create a Dangerous Environment of Secrecy
Why One Lawyer Worries California’s Student-Gender Policies Create a Dangerous Environment of Secrecy
‘You need a policy where children aren’t told to keep secrets from their parents or other caregivers,’ he says. Since late July, six California school districts have adopted a transparency policy that has state officials wigging out. On its face, the parent-notification push at the local level would seem unnecessary, embedded as it is in state...
By Will Swaim
CPC’s Parental Rights Rally
CPC’s Parental Rights Rally
Parents and parent groups from across California joined together for CPC’s “A Line in the Sand — A Rally for Parental Rights” on September 26th. Nearly 400 people came out to Rancho Madera Community Park in Simi Valley the evening before the Republican Presidential Primary Debate to let the candidates know that parental rights is a...
By California Policy Center
Response to Court Temporarily Delaying Parental Notification Policy in Chino Valley Unified School District
Response to Court Temporarily Delaying Parental Notification Policy in Chino Valley Unified School District
SAN BERNARDINO — State Attorney General Rob Bonta has declared war on California parents and local school boards. After school boards across the state adopted a Parental Notification Policy, Bonta filed a motion to prevent the Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) from implementing the policy approved by the school board in July. A San...
By California Policy Center
WATCH CPC’S PARENTAL RIGHTS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE
WATCH CPC’S PARENTAL RIGHTS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE
PARENT UNION’S PARENTAL RIGHTS VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE Find the Parental Rights Pledge Here On August 22, 2023, CPC launched the Parental Rights Pledge at our LIVE Parental Rights Virtual Open House. The virtual event was moderated by Lance Christensen, CPC’s Vice President of Education Policy and Government Affairs, and Mari Barke, Director of CPC’s California Local Elected Officials. Lance...
By California Policy Center