Assembly Bill 714, recently signed into law, requires the California Department of Education to report the number of newcomer students and offer best practices for teaching them.
Falling enrollment combined with a slowing economy will force school districts to make difficult financial decisions. State and regional leaders must lean in to ensure that if school closures are on the table, districts mitigate their adverse impact.
The growing dependence of education on a constellation of privately controlled technologies cedes power to companies that are unaccountable to the schools and communities they are meant to serve.