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When governor Gavin Newo unexpectedly expressed opposition to allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sports, he threw gasoline on a matter that was already burning in state and national political arenas.

“I think, The introductory segment of the new podcast of the governorS “I totally agree with you on this. It’s a matter of justice. It’s deeply unfair. I’m not struggling with the issue of justice. I totally agree with you.”

The remark generates tsunami from media comments about Newsom’s motives and a criticism from fellow Democrats, more specially defenders of LGBTQ rights. It also focuses on two Republican bills that will ban transgender women from women’s high school and college sports.

Usually, given the lack of legislative intervention of Republicans, democratic leaders will simply throw both bills in the waste bin, as they did countless times.

However, the Robert Rivas Mounting speaker allows Assembly Kate Sanchez of Rancho Santa Margarita and Assembly Bill Esaili of a crown to submit their measures, assembly Accounts 89 and 844to the Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism of the Assembly.

This is probably insofar as the measures will reach. The influential LGBTQ kakus of the legislature will take care of it. But the maneuver defends Rivas from allegations that he is not ready to have at least a discussion on the issue that Newsom has for some reason chose to emphasize.

While these well -organized events nourish the insatiable appetite for the cultural conflicts of political drug addicts, they also emphasize the pathetic lack of interest of the Capitol politicians in a real crisis, Shamefully low levels of academic achievements In schools in California.

California strives very badly against other countries in the federal academic tests-in seventh place below, there is a gap in yawning, dividing students with low incomes from their more invigorated classmates. Moreover, California is one of several states whose students are still behind the levels of achievement before the papandemia.

A few days ago, The Washington Post published an article by Ram Emanuel, a former mayor of Chicago and the head of the President’s headquarters Bill Clinton, for neglect of educational achievementsS

Emanuel called it “a moment in education” and said that “almost none of the nation’s alleged adults seems to want to solve the problem.”

Emanuel continued: “On both sides of the path, we are caught in the wild and up to the debate about education-whether the educational department must be closed, which students should change in which changing rooms or participate in which sports and whether the curricula are deprived of diversity, justice and inclusion. They meet that they meet with their main years to meet with their main years to meet with their main children.

This is exactly what happens in California.

Emanuel cites examples of countries that have seriously accepted educational achievements, one of which is Mississippi, where deep poverty is a way of life.

“The early embrace of Mississippi from” Reading Science ” – that is, the recovery of phonika in literacy teaching – resulted in what some call a miracle: the results of state reading for fourth graders have increased from the 49th national in 2013 to the nine in 2024.”

Phonics made some attacks in California, but unlike Mississippi, California did not hug him completely, although he was ranked 33rd in the fourth grade reading.

This can change if the legislature accepts AB 1121a newly introduced measure from Assembly Blanca RubioDemocrat from West Covina, with the support of Edvoice and other education reform groups.

The bill will encourage school districts to adopt “basic evidence of funding funds for funding reading skills”.

It deserves at least as much legislative attention as transsexual bills.

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