Maybe We Call This ‘Jaime Escalante Day’?

Governor Gavin Newsom signed an emergency bill to rename the Cesar Chavez holiday “Farmworkers Day.” Will and David suggest we commemorate instead the East Los Angeles teacher who was the subject of the 1988 movie Stand and Deliver -- and was then driven from teaching by his own union. Representative Eric Swalwell earned a key campaign endorsement from the California Teachers Association -- a kind of Surgeon General’s Warning for voters in the state’s June primary. In other news: Tech’s very bad week in court, and it’s time for San Francisco to defund its corrupt “Defund the Police” campaign. Bonus tracks! Red State reporter Jen Van Laar on LAUSD’s all-in-the-family negotiations with the state’s largest teacher’s union, and former Los Angeles Times religion reporter Bill Lobdell on the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal, televangelists, Cesar Chavez, and California’s public schools. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes

• Newsom signs law renaming Cesar Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day
• A Calculated Move : Jaime Escalante Prepares to Leave to Teach in Sacramento
• UTLA’s response
• The USC professor at the center of the debate debacle
• A big weekend for Eric Swalwell
• F.B.I. Said to Dig Up Old Investigative Files on Democratic Lawmaker
• Swalwell campaign in the hot seat after accepting almost $15K from CCP-tied law firm: 'Stop playing footsie'
• Social media trials usher in Big Tech's latest moment of reckoning
• Top S.F. official who led Dream Keeper equity program charged with felonies: ‘abuse of power’
• Holed up: L.A. tries closing off manhole where people live, nearly sealing someone inside
• LA’s Declining Homelessness Numbers: Real or Illusory?
• California introduces financial literacy course starting with class of 2030-31
• 'New Era': Landmark Policy to Expand Tribal Stewardship for At Least 7.5 Million Acres in California

Jen Van Laar

• Literal bedfellows among teacher union activists and the district negotiating their pay package

Bill Lobdell

• “Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace”
• Newport Beach in the Rearview Mirror podcast