The superintendent of the Benicia Unified School District is asking school board trustees to support a resolution by the California School Boards Association (CSBA) requesting more money for state schools at Thursday’s BUSD Governing Board meeting. According to the resolution, “California has the sixth largest economy in the world and the largest Gross Domestic Product […]
Bruce Robinson: The DeVos flap– insight or oversight?
On the same day President Trump picked Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) head, Randi Weingarten, condemned Mrs. DeVos as “the most ideological, anti-public-education nominee put forward since President Carter created a Cabinet-level Department of Education.” Right away, National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen Garcia added her ire to […]