Education

California’s Public Education Has Fallen To One Of The Worst In The US

California’s public education system has plunged to near‑bottom national rankings, with declining test scores, chronic absenteeism, and widespread literacy failures raising urgent concerns about academic standards, political priorities, and the future of student achievement.

July 10, 2026
2 min read

(California Globe) How far the great state of California has fallen, from having the best public education systems in the country to one of the worst.

American teachers and teachers unions have failed children. Teachers unions have become the biggest school bullies, sacrificing school children on the altar of power and control.

How did California’s public education system go from best in the United States to one of the worst? How did the classical Liberal Arts education, once made up of rigorous disciplines from the natural sciences to the fine arts, get sidelined by textbooks and course materials that include multiple perspectives and diverse representation from varied racial, ethnic, sex, gender, sexuality, SES, religion, age, and abilities perspectives (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion practices), as opposed to core curriculum of the seven Liberal Arts: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music, and Geometry.

Teachers used to teach Liberal Arts disciplines enthusiastically. Now too many indoctrinate.

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