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Panic has set in at school districts across the Golden State as the Trump administration continues to withhold federal funds. Tony Thurmond, state superintendent of public instruction, said California school districts stand to immediately lose close to $1 billion. Luis Valentino, retired superintendent of Coachella Valley Unified School District...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Las escuelas y universidades de California reciben miles de millones de dólares en fondos federales cada año, dinero que el presidente Donald Trump amenaza con retirar por las acciones de una estudiante. AB Hernandez, estudiante de penúltimo año de la preparatoria Jurupa Valley, es transgénero y...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters California’s schools and colleges receive billions in federal funding each year — money that President Donald Trump is threatening to terminate over the actions of one student. AB Hernandez, a junior from Jurupa Valley High School, is transgender, and on May 31 she won first- and...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Cinco años después de que la pandemia de COVID-19 afectara la economía e hiciera que millones de personas experimentaran hambre por primera vez, la demanda en el Banco de Alimentos y Servicios Familiares de Sacramento sigue siendo mayor que nunca. El número de clientes mensuales ha...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Five years since the COVID-19 pandemic upended the economy and made millions experience hunger for the first time, demand at the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services is still higher than ever. The number of monthly clients has risen to 310,000, more than double the number...
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters Las pequeñas empresas de California (empleadores de más de la mitad de la fuerza laboral del estado) se enfrentan a lo que algunos propietarios, expertos y defensores dicen que podrían ser inmensas consecuencias negativas de la serie de órdenes ejecutivas del presidente Donald Trump. La congelación...
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Levi Sumagaysay CalMatters California’s small businesses — employers to more than half the state’s workforce — are staring down what some owners, experts and advocates say could be immense negative consequences from President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders. Trump’s embattled federal funding freeze and anti-diversity push have seeded...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Rural school districts — already beset with financial struggles — are furiously scrambling to save a century-old funding source that Republican lawmakers last month eliminated from the federal budget. The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, which has been approved almost continuously since 1908, is...
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California ranks 37th out of 48 states for spending on K-12 education – according to a new report from Rutgers University, the University of Miami, and the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute. The annual School Finance Indicators Database found that California is spending more than 14% less than it did before the...