Bloated bureaucracies and progressive mandates in public education need to go

At the end of a contentious election year in which the Republican Party won the presidency, the House and the Senate in spite of opposite voting patterns among the majority of California’s electorate, it is easy to get caught up in the dramas of high politics and ignore painful education statistics. 

Only 47% of California students meet or exceed English proficiency standards and nearly 65% cannot do math at the grade level, based on the 2024 California Smarter Balanced test results. Public...