California’s budget was hemorrhaging red ink 15 years ago as the Great Recession clobbered personal income tax revenues and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators were desperately trying to balance their …
A minor miracle occurred in the California Capitol 50 years ago this month when a bipartisan majority of state senators refused to accept a pork-laden budget that was drafted in secret by …
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal Lau vs. Nichols Supreme Court case. The Court found that San Francisco Unified School District’s Chinese students were not getting the English …
Inside secret warehouses strategically placed around the state, California is storing a massive cache of vital medical supplies, including masks, gloves and life-saving medicines, seeking to be better-equipped than it …
A first-of-its-kind orientation inside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center last month helped illuminate what California can do to keep its prison population decreasing if lawmakers approve a budget cut that …
What’s happening on the state budget this week — or, more accurately, not happening — is the latest chapter in a 15-year-long saga of manipulative Capitol politics. Sometime before Saturday …
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Teachers Association have reached an agreement that would protect school funding and press pause on a rising feud between state officials and educators. When …
Remarkably, it looks like California’s public school system will make it through the state’s multibillion-dollar budget shortfall more or less intact. That’s because the state will draw more than $6 billion …
When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a much-revised 2024-25 state budget this month, he became visibly irritated when reporters pressed him about raising taxes to cover a $44.9 billion deficit, particularly the corporate …
Financial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the largest chunk of the state budget, but for the past half-century it has been its …