U.S. Dept. of Education investigates California over FERPA violations tied to AB 1955
U.S. Dept. of Education investigates California over FERPA violations tied to AB 1955
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that it will investigate California for violating the authority of parents over their children who attend public schools, specifically on matters of gender identity. According to the Los Angeles Times, the investigation was initiated in response to a January 31 complaint filed by the California Justice Center. In that complaint, California Policy Center’s...
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Defense of Freedom Institute, California Justice Center File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against California Department of Education and Multiple School Districts for Title IX Violations
Defense of Freedom Institute, California Justice Center File Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against California Department of Education and Multiple School Districts for Title IX Violations
WASHINGTON— The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) and the California Justice Center (CJC) have jointly filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the California Department of Education (CDE), Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), and...
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Register now for CPC Parent Union’s fourth annual Parents, Not Partisans Summit
Register now for CPC Parent Union’s fourth annual Parents, Not Partisans Summit
Don’t miss California Policy Center fourth annual “Parents, Not Partisans” Summit — California at the Crossroads of Education — March 18-19, 2025 in Sacramento! This transformative two-day event brings together parent group leaders, education reform advocates, and school board members from across California to learn, network, and mobilize. Day 1: Our all-day conference at the Embassy...
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On Behalf of California Policy Center, The Liberty Justice Center and California Justice Center Challenge Employer Censorship Law
On Behalf of California Policy Center, The Liberty Justice Center and California Justice Center Challenge Employer Censorship Law
On February 11, the Liberty Justice Center and California Justice Center filed a federal lawsuit challenging a California law that violates employers’ First Amendment rights by prohibiting companies from discussing any “religious or political matters” at mandatory meetings. On September 27, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 399 (SB 399) into law. Although labeled the...
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Edward Ring Testifies before Congress on the California Fires and the Consequences of Overregulation
Edward Ring Testifies before Congress on the California Fires and the Consequences of Overregulation
Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at California Policy Center, testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust on Thursday, February 7, 2025. The hearing, “California Fires and the Consequences of Overregulation,” examined the ways years of overregulation on environmental issues has thwarted effective fire...
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Court Orders LAUSD to Release Union Membership Records in Transparency Win for Californians
Court Orders LAUSD to Release Union Membership Records in Transparency Win for Californians
LOS ANGELES, CA — California Policy Center (CPC) has won an important victory for government transparency in its lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In a decision released Wednesday, January 15, 2025, in California Policy Center vs Los Angeles Unified School District, Superior Court Judge Stephen Goorvitch ruled that LAUSD must produce...
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A Firestorm of Failures
A Firestorm of Failures
SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT WILL SWAIM Before we get to our regularly scheduled programming — in which we discuss the myriad policy failures that led to this week’s devastating wildfires — we want to tell you how you can help. As we write, nearly 10,000 structures — homes, businesses, churches and schools — have been...
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Modernizing Municipal Reporting Conference
Modernizing Municipal Reporting Conference
After a period of municipal financial stability, California local governments are once again facing fiscal distress. A robust system of municipal financial reporting and monitoring can provide early warnings of fiscal trouble and allow policymakers at the state and local level to proactively address them. Join California Policy Center and XBRL US for a half-day conference, Modernizing Municipal Reporting, featuring keynote speaker California...
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CPC Files Amicus Brief in Huntington Beach v. Newsom
CPC Files Amicus Brief in Huntington Beach v. Newsom
California Policy Center has filed an amicus brief supporting the City of Huntington Beach’s petition for rehearing en banc in the City’s challenge to California’s unconstitutional housing mandates. A three-judge panel denied relief to Huntington Beach due to the South Lake Tahoe rule, a Ninth Circuit precedent that prohibits local governments like cities and school...
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CPC Launches Local Fiscal Health Dashboard for California’s Cities, Counties and School Districts
CPC Launches Local Fiscal Health Dashboard for California’s Cities, Counties and School Districts
Interactive Database Reveals which Local Governments are Fiscally Sound or at High-Risk of Fiscal Crisis As of November 19, 2024, California Policy Center has updated its General Fund Reserves scoring to give maximum credit to entities whose unrestricted reserves equal 32% of general fund expenses. This replaces the previous scale, which ranged up to a 75%...
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California Student Test Scores Fall Short but Education Officials Ignore Root Causes
California Student Test Scores Fall Short but Education Officials Ignore Root Causes
The California Department of Education released its annual student test scores this week and the news is sobering. The state’s California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) results for the 2023-24 school year show the percentage of students who have met or exceeded state standards for English language arts, math and science has increased only slightly...
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Ballot-O-Rama: A Guide to California’s 2024 Ballot Propositions
Ballot-O-Rama: A Guide to California’s 2024 Ballot Propositions
As spectator sports go, November’s ballot propositions have everything – drama, intrigue, the manipulation of language. But for California, this is no mere entertainment: the stakes are very high, indeed. The ballot includes 10 important propositions, few of which are likely to be the source of more smoke, light and heat than Proposition 36, which...
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CPC Submits Amicus Letter to State Supreme Court in Support of Fresno Business Challenging Newsom’s COVID Shutdown Orders
CPC Submits Amicus Letter to State Supreme Court in Support of Fresno Business Challenging Newsom’s COVID Shutdown Orders
In 2018, Daryn Coleman and his wife invested their life savings into launching Ghost Golf, an indoor miniature golf venue. But, in 2020, their California business was shut down for more than a year due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide business shutdown orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the governor’s “Blueprint for a Safer Economy,”...
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California Policy Center Files Amicus Brief Defending Free Speech Rights of Students and Teachers in California Schools
California Policy Center Files Amicus Brief Defending Free Speech Rights of Students and Teachers in California Schools
San Francisco — California Policy Center filed an amicus curiae brief Monday in support of the First Amendment rights of a California first grader who was punished by her school after she drew a picture containing the words “Black Lives Mater [sic]… any life.” The school principal disciplined the student by depriving her of recess for...
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