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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday October 12 allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children’s caregivers if their parents are deported, a measure that had provoked a firestorm of conservative criticism. Assembly Bill 495 will also bar daycare providers from collecting...
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Un proyecto de ley que espera la firma del gobernador Gavin Newsom esta semana permitiría a las facultades y universidades de California dar preferencia en las admisiones a los descendientes de esclavos. La Ley de la Asamblea 7 permite pero no obliga a las universidades a dar esta preferencia....
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A bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature this week would allow California colleges and universities to give preference in admissions to descendants of slaves. Assembly Bill 7 permits but does not require colleges to give this preference. Brandon Greene, director of policy advocacy for the Sacramento-based Western Center on...
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Khari Johnson & Yue Stella Yu CalMatters In April, Rhode Island resident Navah Hopkins received a plea for her help to defeat legislation thousands of miles away in California. The ask came from Google, maker of the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. The tech giant sent a message to an...
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¿Sabe que algunos concesionarios de coches dicen a la gente un precio para que entren por la puerta y luego se lo suben con un montón de añadidos? Un proyecto de ley que se está estudiando en California ilegalizaría esta práctica. Se espera que la Ley de Lucha contra...
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You know how some car dealerships tell people one price to get them in the door, then jack it up with a bunch of add-ons? It would become illegal under a bill being considered in California. The Combating Auto Retail Scams Act, is expected to get a vote in the...
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Un proyecto de ley presentado en el Senado de los Estados Unidos garantizaría a todos los maestros de escuelas públicas en el país un salario mínimo de al menos $60,000 dólares al año. La Ley de Pago a Maestros, patrocinada por el senador independiente Bernie Sanders, de Vermont, también triplicaría...
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A bill filed in the U.S. Senate would guarantee all public schoolteachers across the U.S. a minimum salary of at least $60,000 dollars a year. The Pay Teachers Act, sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would also triple funding allocated to schools for children from low-income families to more than...
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Massachusetts educators are praising federal legislation to ensure public schoolteachers make a minimum of $60,000 a year. Supporters say the Pay Teachers Act would help fill the more than 4,000 teacher vacancies statewide and ensure fully certified teachers are staffing schools. Cory O’Hayer, a social studies teacher for Boston...