Author: Roxana Tunc
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California Has the Jobs. Its Students Don’t Have the Experience.
The 2026 State Opportunity Index shows a state whose economy is ready for its graduates. The bridge between classroom and workplace is not. California looks good on paper. 80% of its public bachelor’s graduates earn a positive return within ten years, against 73% nationally. Affordability at bachelor’s institutions moved from Advanced to Leading; only Florida…
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Governing Alone: Colleges Are Writing AI Rules While Lawmakers Stay Silent
AI has moved into admissions, advising, tutoring, grading and research faster than any technology higher education has absorbed. The guardrails have not followed. Between 2019 and 2026, state legislators filed 115 bills on AI in K-16 education and passed 14. Only one of those laws, Tennessee’s 2024 S 1711, tells colleges anything about how AI…
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LAUSD Didn’t Ban AI -It Banned the Future
For the last two weeks, education news feed was inundated with the news on New York City banning AI for students through eighth grade, and Los Angeles Unified with almost no public notice restricting AI for everyone. I read both stories more than once, and I didn’t agree with them either on the substance, nor…