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Print Continue to article content Republicans seized this week on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s requirement that all schoolchildren wear masks. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo Newsom faces backlash over masks in California schools Students will return to classrooms just as recall ballots land in mailboxes across the state, and Newsom has to strike the right tone with parents and voters after a tumultuous stretch marked by some of the nation's longest school closures. The governor has built momentum this summer, making his ouster a long shot, but schools remain a sensitive political topic in California...

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday the creation of one online spot where school districts can find technical information and resources, and parents can find answers and lodge concerns on reopening schools during the pandemic. It includes a website that will launch later this month that will list Covid outbreaks by school and district and permit parents to file complaints online and through a hotline telephone if their schools are not following safety protocols. It also includes a single 51-page document of all previous state regulations and guidelines. , linking to California Department of ...

Update at 1 p.m. to correct the estimated costs that Los Angeles Unified will spend on Covid testing. Updated at 3:30 to note that L.A. Unified is suing Newsom over the plan. After a meeting Monday with top advisers of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration, superintendents of two of the largest school districts in California said nothing had changed: Their districts won’t pursue $2 billion in state funding in return for committing by Feb. 1 to send younger students back to school when Covid infection rates fall. Reaching an agreement in under three weeks with employee unions on the condition...

Update: The final report will be sent to Gov. Newsom on Dec. 18. One of the few notable areas where Gov. Gavin Newsom departed from his predecessor Gov. Jerry Brown on entering office was his support for establishing a longitudinal data system linking information from preschool into the workplace. Despite the fact that most other states had created that system in some form, for years Brown resisted entreaties from researchers and advocates to allocate the funds to set one up. But it was such a high priority for Newsom that, within days of taking office in 2019, he called for it in the seco...