State budget sets standards, more accountability for pandemic-era education
(World News USA)

As individual school districts across California consider how to reopen, lawmakers in Sacramento this week passed a state budget that’s intended to provide structure and demand accountability for schools during the pandemic. Online education and related technology, student transfers, and the short-term growth of public charter schools all figure to be affected. But, for now at least, California schools figure to dodge the deep layoffs and budget cuts that marked the recession of 2008 and hurt schools for years after. A key to how the state will govern schools in the coming year is Senate Bill 98, a rider that was approved in conjunction with the $202 billion budget signed Monday by...