Newsom Signs Law Requiring Cursive to Be Taught in California Schools

Newsom Signs Law Requiring Cursive to Be Taught in California Schools
A poster showing third-grade pupils how to write in printed and cursive letters runs across the top of a blackboard at an elementary school in Ellicott City, Maryland on October 15, 2013. Robert MacPherson/AFP/Getty Images
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California’s elementary school students will again be required to learn cursive writing, after a bill was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom Oct. 16.

The handwriting style will be taught to students in first through sixth grade, starting in January 2024.

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