On June 21, the State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners approved several significant policy changes affecting state-accredited and unaccredited law schools. These decisions, accompanied by a newly unveiled report, aim to improve outcomes and ensure compliance within these institutions.

California’s constitution allows forced labor as a form of criminal punishment. That would change if voters approve an anti-slavery amendment this fall.

In late deals with Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders, proponents are pulling measures off the Nov. 5 ballot. But the Legislature may add others by next week.

A bill to prohibit public schools from notifying a parent that their child has identified as transgender without the student’s consent won final legislative passage Thursday and is on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. But it won’t end legal challenges alleging violations of parents’ right to raise their children.