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A UC or CSU degree shouldn’t come with a lifetime of debt. That’s why 42% of local high school graduates choose College of San Mateo, Cañada College, and Skyline College instead — the same quality education and job training, without the sky-high price tag. Local community colleges are the...
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Las batallas políticas más intensas de las elecciones del martes 3 de noviembre giran alrededor del control del Congreso y el futuro de la presidencia de Donald Trump. Sin embargo, algunas de las decisiones que tendrán mayor impacto en la vida cotidiana de los estadounidenses podrían estar escondidas al...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters A beleaguered Sacramento charter school, which the state last year accused of misspending $180 million, has filed for bankruptcy after the school said negotiations broke down over its repayment of the debt. Highlands Community and Technical Schools, which serves about 2,000 adults at six campuses in...
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Sacramento, Calif. – California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., is encouraging California voters to vote early and to track their ballot. “Early voting provides flexibility for voters to exercise their constitutional right to vote,” noted Secretary Weber. “California provides voters with many options to vote, and we...
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Nadia Lathan CalMatters Want to know who’s who in Republican politics? Look no further than the megadonors bankrolling California’s voter ID initiative. Illinois billionaire packing supply magnate Richard Uihlein, who has poured tens of millions of dollars into conservative causes, has contributed $17 million to the campaign for Proposition...
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La secretaria de Estado de California, Shirley N. Weber, instó a los votantes a votar por adelantado en las elecciones generales del 3 de noviembre, confirmando que el sistema de voto por correo del estado se mantiene sin cambios a pesar de las impugnaciones federales y rechazando las acusaciones...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters California voters will soon be asked whether they want to keep taxing the incomes of the rich. And they’ll be asked whether to start taxing the accumulated wealth of the even richer. Wait, there’s more. They’ll also get to weigh in on whether we should ban...
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Proposition 45, on the California ballot this November, would expedite environmental review for many housing, transportation, water and health projects by speeding up the review process overall. Many environmental and labor groups oppose the proposal, arguing it guts the California Environmental Quality Act. Kat Lockwood, CEO of the nonprofit...
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A Trump administration proposal to overhaul the 2030 census would exclude undocumented immigrants, eliminate race, ethnicity and sexual orientation questions and overhaul residency proof used to allocate congressional seats and federal funding. The Department of Commerce published the federal notice of proposed rulemaking for the decennial census Sept. 10,...