School Choice Initiative Flunks—While More Kids Exit Schools

A file photo of El Segundo High School in El Segundo, Calif., on July 28, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

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Millions of California schoolchildren will remain in the state’s failing government schools. That’s because the California School Choice Initiative flunked its bid to gain enough signatures by the April 11 deadline to make it onto the November ballot. Only about 20 percent of the nearly 1 million required signatures were gathered.