Teacher Jessica DeAnda, left, instructs Liz Valdez, 11, center, as Kayla Torres, 11, right, works on her laptop at Sunrise Middle School on June 22, 2020 in San Jose, the first Bay Area school to reopen since shelter-in-place was announced in March. Photo by Randy Vazquez, Bay Area News GroupLast year, California created a $500 million program to help prepare students for careers. With the state facing a $31.5 billion budget deficit, lawmakers want to claw back $400 million of the program.
The learning approach that’s the basis for the half a billion dollar idea, Golden State Pathways Program, is called Linked Learning. In her 44 years as an educator, Soliman is convinced that Linked Learning is “the solution to exciting kids about learning,” said the administrator for career-technical education at Los Angeles Unified School District, the state’s largest. cut $400 million from the Golden State PathwaysThe rationale: Lawmakers want to avoid the $4.
The agency tasked with doling out the funds, the California Department of Education, opposes the proposed cut. “We’re alarmed by any idea that there will be a cut to Golden State Pathways,” said Steve Zimmer, deputy superintendent at the department whose division includes overseeing the program.