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The California Legislature recently passed a bill that would prompt changes in the way students are placed into remedial courses at community colleges throughout California.
The bill, called the Community College Placement Bill, was created by Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin. The bill has moved to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, where Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, believes it will be signed.
A bill by a legislator from Ventura County intended to help academically struggling community college students is now on the governor’s desk, awaiting his action.
Last week, the California Legislature passed Assemblymember Irwin’s Community College Placement Bill, AB 705, which changes the way in which students are placed in remedial courses at Community Colleges throughout California.
Four out of five California community college students must take a remedial math or English class at some point in their college career. For some, that’s largely repeating what they already learned in high school.
But under a proposed bill headed to the governor’s desk that passed unanimously Thursday in the state Legislature, many more students may soon avoid that path.
As published in EdSource.
Two Bills passed by the Legislature are designed to bolster California’s Cybersecurity
Three Workshops aimed at helping Women set to begin at the end of September
At its annual Solar and Storage Worker Day, the California Solar Energy Industries Association honored Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, for her work to promote the growth of local solar and energy storage.
As published in the Ventura County Star.
(Sacramento, CA) – “I’m appalled by today’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Nearly 800,000 DACA recipients in the United States have now been put at risk of deportation, including close to 200,000 of them who currently reside in California.
(Sacramento) - Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), Chair of the Assembly Veterans Committee, today announced that the Assembly has secured an additional $1 billion in the Affordable Housing Bond agreement (see attached document) to extend the Cal-Vet Home Loan Program, which is currently scheduled to expire in 2018.
(Sacramento) - Legislation authored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) to protect children from identity theft is being implemented with help from State Attorney General Xavier Becerra.