Episode 410: Like Phonics Rising from the Ashes
Update: 2025-10-02
Description
Facing a 40-year decline in reading scores, California lawmakers have concluded that it’s time to ask -- politely -- that the state’s K–12 teachers to return to phonics. Bonus: Marc Joffe talks about the deep meaning of Gavin Newsom’s repeated failure to produce accurate state financials. Music by Metalachi.
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Show Notes:
- Will on NPR’s Left, Right & Center
- Trump administration being asked to greenlight oil production off Santa Barbara coast
- Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AI regulations, bucking Big Tech
- California Enacts 17 AI Bills in 2024
- Capital Record: AI and the challenges for all free marketeers
- California Learns From Mississippi on Phonics
- California Is Poised to Pass a ‘Science of Reading’ Law After a Long, Tense Debate
- Black students need choice, not illegal gestures like Assembly Bill 7
- Los Angeles greenlights controversial $2.6B convention center
- Another California county is losing its only hospital after feds refuse to step in
- Vons and Albertsons close self-checkout as Long Beach mandates more staffing, new rules
- Amid staffing shortage, Long Beach police will no longer send officers to minor traffic collisions
- Reel Inn restaurant among businesses that were told they can't rebuild after Palisades Fire
- Hayward announces hiring freeze, creates ‘budget war room’ after city drains $31 million in reserves
- Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem
- The Mayan in downtown LA announces it's closing after nearly a century
Marc Joffe on BART:
- Marc’s bio
- California’s streak of late financial statements continues
- BART Audit Flags Overtime Costs, Weak Controls as Agency Spends $96 Million
- BART senior police officer overtime
- SHIFT-Bay Area
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