"Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a sweeping proposal to overhaul how California's education system is governed, calling for structural changes that he said would shift oversight of the Department of Education and redefine the role of the state's elected schools chief. The proposal, which is part of Newsom's state budget plan that will be released Friday, would unify the policymaking State Board of Education with the department, which is responsible for carrying out those policies."
""California can no longer postpone reforms that have been recommended regularly for a century," Newsom said in a statement. "These critical reforms will bring greater accountability, clarity, and coherence to how we serve our students and schools.""
"The proposal would implement recommendations from a 2002 report by the state Legislature, titled "California's Master Plan for Education," which described the state's K-12 governance as fragmented and "with overlapping roles that sometimes operate in conflict with one another, to the detriment of the educational services offered to students.""
Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a structural overhaul of California's education governance as part of the state budget, aiming to centralize oversight of the Department of Education. The plan would unify the policymaking State Board of Education with the department that implements policies and would redefine the role of the elected state superintendent toward coordination and policy alignment. The proposal aims to align education efforts from early childhood through college and to increase accountability, clarity, and coherence. The changes would require legislative approval and follow long-standing recommendations, including a 2002 state report describing fragmented, overlapping governance.
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