California may soon test children on math as early as kindergarten in effort to curb dismal scores

California Expects to Raise Math Scores by Testing Kids in Kindergarten

Appalled by low scores in math, California is thinking of testing kindergartners to see what they know about math and to help them learn it. Many kindergartners don’t know how to hold a pencil. Most are likely unfamiliar with math. If the state doesn’t have the funding for smaller classes and extra support for students, []

UC weighs return of SAT amid early signs of changing views and faculty pressure

Six years after dropping the SAT and ACT, the University of California is weighing a return to standardized testing following intense pressure from faculty who say incoming students lack basic math and reasoning skills.

California Voters to Decide If Local Taxes Should Be Harder to Approve

California voters will decide in November if the state will make it more difficult for cities to raise local taxes similar to Los Angeles’ 3-year-old Measure ULA “mansion tax” via the ballot box. State lawmakers on Thursday advanced a measure that would require some special taxes to receive support from two-thirds of voters, rather than []

UC STEM Professors Want to Restore SAT, ACT Requirements

The letter attributes the decline in student readiness to the University of California admissions system’s 2020 decision to eliminate standardized testing requirements... The post UC STEM Professors Want to Restore SAT, ACT Requirements first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

California’s billionaire tax proposal heads to voters as Newsom pushes national wealth tax

California voters will decide whether the state’s billionaires should face a 5 net-worth tax in November after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) opposition to the idea failed to stop it from getting on the ballot. The ballot measure will decide if the state should impose a one-time 5 tax on its billionaire residents, an idea that []