Commentary
I’ve been reporting on California schools for 35 years, watching them go from bad to much worse. So I’m shaking my head over the video of Gov. Gavin Newsom today receiving the 2022 Frank Newman Award for State Innovation. It was given by the Education Commission of the States, a compact among the 50 states.
The group said the award was given to the Golden State “in recognition of its coordinated approach to educating all students from preschool to postsecondary, with explicit attention toward whole-child supports and services, as well as its historic financial investments to ensure educational equity.”
Obviously looking beyond his November re-election bid and running for president, Newsom boasted of the size of the state, as he often does, that has “the fifth largest economy in the world.” He continued, “I do believe that education is under assault in ways that I’ve never experienced in my lifetime.”…
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