The governor has put out a news release excerpted below dealing with education including higher ed:
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a new education governance proposal that will be a key initiative in his 2026-27 State Budget. The plan would implement long-standing recommendations to strengthen California’s governance system.
“California can no longer postpone reforms that have been recommended regularly for a century. So we are going to modernize the governance system by unifying the policy-making State Board with the Department of Education that implements those policies. And we’re empowering the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to help align our education policies from early childhood through college. These critical reforms will bring greater accountability, clarity, and coherence to how we serve our students and schools.”
This year’s budget proposes to implement recommendations of the Legislature’s 2002 report, California’s Master Plan for Education, to move oversight of the California Department of Education and ultimate responsibility for state oversight and support of local educational agencies under the State Board of Education.
The Legislature’s report describes California’s K-12 education system as being governed by a fragmented set of entities with overlapping roles that sometimes operate in conflict with one another, to the detriment of educational services offered to students.
This concern, first raised by the Legislature in 1920 and echoed in succeeding legislative policy documents and research reports, was reinforced in a December 2025 report from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) that concluded, “California can no longer postpone reforms that have been overdue for a century.”
The Governor’s budget further proposes to expand and strengthen the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s ability to foster coordination and alignment of state education policies from early childhood through postsecondary education.
These changes can be accomplished through statute, and consistent with decades of expert recommendations and recent calls for action, will strengthen governance of California’s education system to provide coherence and meaningful accountability for addressing the needs of students, parents, teachers, school staff, and administrators...
Full release at https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/08/as-part-of-the-2026-27-budget-proposal-governor-newsom-proposes-improving-state-education-governance/.
We will have to see what all of this entails.
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