COVID-19

Browse CCIS’s historical coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on California education. Posts address school closures and reopening, emergency distance learning, student services, staffing flexibility, and relief funding. These articles document guidance and decisions from the time they were published; they are an archive, rather than a guide to current requirements.

Summary of Changes to Independent Study Law

Summary of Changes to Independent Study Law

The 2021-22 Budget and subsequent clean-up legislation rewrote Independent Study law, leaving school administrators and teachers scrambling to retool long-standing operations in an already stressful start of a school year.

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Senate Budget Plan

Senate Budget Plan

In a hearing of its Budget and Fiscal Review Committee this afternoon, the State Senate revealed its response to the...

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