On Nov. 18-19, an advisory panel to the State Board of Education will act on the most recent recommendations to the draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.
The measure would have brought billions to California’s cash-strapped schools and community colleges, though not in time to help deal with immediate financial crises.
Despite limited testing requirements, California schools that have reopened for in-person instruction have largely avoided COVID-19 outbreaks. Still, some teachers and legislators say large scale surveillance testing is necessary to the rest of the state’s schools and that lack of data is a problem.