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Segraves v. California was a 1981 Superior Court of California case concerning the teaching of evolutionary biology in public schools. Kelly Segraves, a parent of three schoolchildren, sued the State of California, arguing that the teaching of evolution in public schools violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In the 1977 case Abood v.Detroit Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld the maintaining of a union shop in a public workplace. Public school teachers in Detroit had sought to overturn the requirement that they pay fees equivalent to union dues on the grounds that they opposed public sector collective bargaining and objected to the ideological activities of the union.
California lawmakers have passed legislation requiring free condoms in high schools, gender-neutral bathrooms in all schools and an end to some types of suspensions.
Teaching Ethics is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the philosophical examination of ethical issues in all disciplines. Its mission is to foster dialogue about ethics instruction across disciplinary boundaries, with a focus on business, medicine, technology, law, and other areas of liberal education.
The California Commission on Teacher Credentialing recently unveiled its new “Roadmap to Teaching ‘‘ initiative, a project funded by $1.4 million in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2022-23 budget to ...
In 1920, the California State Legislature's Special Legislative Committee on Education conducted a comprehensive investigation of California's educational system. The Committee's final report, drafted by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, explained that the system's chaotic ad hoc development had resulted in the division of jurisdiction over education at the state level between 23 separate boards ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joelle Clark, a 28-year-old public-school teacher in California, about the state's new law requiring schools to develop a policy that limits ...
The California Teachers Association (CTA) is a teachers' trade union based in the city of Burlingame, California.The association was initially established in 1863. It is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful [2] teachers' unions in the state with over 300,000 members and a high political profile in California politics. [3]