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CAWS Membership payment must be received by Tom Krucli, CAWS Financial Director, by March 31, 2023. Please mail your payment directly to Tom. His address is on the SOTY Application Form. Each CAWS member programme may nominate one student for their CAWS IB Student of the Year award. 
The SOTY application deadline is April 7, 2023.

At its March meeting, the State Board of Education (SBE) focused on ways to improve our state assessments and accountability system. Below is a summary of the significant developments from the meeting, followed by information on the regular agenda items and waiver requests heard by the Board.

Join Chloé Suberville, Development Manager, in learning more about the process of adding a new programme to your school or disctrict. You’ll learn about the benefits of our educational continuum (PYP, MYP, DP, CP), and the application process. In this conversation, you’ll have space to ask programme specific questions, as well as broader questions around implementation.

This course was recently approved by UC as an Area G/Interdisciplinary honors elective for grades 11-12. The aim of the course is to facilitate learning and completion of the core components of the IB Diploma, as well as support student success in other academic subjects.

Happy New Year to all DP and CP Schools!
The UC High School Articulation Office will open their A-G Course Management Portal on February 1. At this time, you will be able to submit new courses or request course revisions for the 2023-2024 school year. The primary phase for submissions will be February 1-June 30. Any new IB courses or IB course revisions need to be submitted through the IB Organization A-G course management portal.

Governor Newsom this morning released his state budget proposal for 2023-24, which anticipates a $22.5 billion deficit, largely driven by a decline in capital gains revenues. His proposal relies heavily on the state's historic $35.6 billion in reserves to balance the budget going forward

Real change begins when we choose hope. By believing that we have the power to make an impact, we take the first step on the journey to changing our world. The choice is yours. But you are not alone. This is an invitation to join an inspiring community that will help us think boldly, nurture our curiosity, and empower us to act together.

Welcome to the Festival of Hope.

Everyone who closely monitors the state’s fiscal condition were alarmed last month by a report from the state Legislative Analyst's Office that projected a $42 billion budget deficit across a three-year budget forecast that includes an estimated $25 billion problem for next year alone.

Ten new or revised courses were approved for the 2022-2023 academic year for the International Baccalaureate Organization UC A-G Program List.

Continue for specific courses, recognition and courses that need to be submitted in 2023.

Our team has produced a series of comprehensive client briefs detailing new education laws that were passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Newsom in 2022. Each brief is organized by subject area and includes an executive summary highlighting major changes we think you should know about. Bills signed by the Governor take effect on January 1, 2023, unless the bill specifically states otherwise (i.e. budget bills).

Just a quick note to bring you up-to-speed on what is happening in Sacramento.

The Legislature has finished its work, and the Governor has signed and/or vetoed thousands of bills that made it to his desk.

If there was a central theme to some of the Governor’s actions, it was that he was reluctant to sign into law many bills that obligated the state to spend funds into the future. As he indicated in several veto messages, tax revenues were coming into state coffers at a severely reduced rate.

The State Board of Education (SBE) met this week with a focus on the future of our accountability and assessment systems, including changes to the California School Dashboard and California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) threshold scores and reporting. The Board also welcomed two new members. Following is a summary of the September meeting.

CAWS New Board Members at Large

Last Friday afternoon, the Legislature released SB 185 and AB 185, the two houses’ versions of the K-12 education budget clean-up bill. Essentially identical in language, these measures contain both clarifying changes and corrections to proposals funded in the 2022 Budget Act, including the transitional kindergarten (TK) expansion and the 2021-22 ADA protection language, as well as additional, new policy changes. Our team has put together a summary of the major proposed changes:

I hope your school year is off to a good start and hopefully some of the challenges you’ve faced over the past couple of years navigating the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic have begun to subside. All of us at CAWS recognize how trying these times have been. Our mission is to support the efforts of all IB schools in California, and we want you to know we’re here to help no matter the question, concern or need. We will begin the year hosting a number of virtual roundtables, seminars, and other events.