2021

Politico California’s Carla Marinucci and CalMatters’ Dan Walters join Nicole and Nigel on the final podcast episode to discuss how the pandemic shaped California politics. “I think we have learned to live with [COVID-19], begrudgingly. Unhappily, perhaps. Although it is kind of interesting that there is this odd sort of residual resistance to the whole […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom added COVID-19 to the list of diseases students must get a vaccination for to attend school.

En Resumen El gobernador Gavin Newsom agregó COVID-19 a la lista de enfermedades por las que los estudiantes deben vacunarse para asistir a la escuela. Read this article in English.    En otro esfuerzo agresivo para detener la propagación de COVID-19 y garantizar que las escuelas permanezcan abiertas, el gobernador Gavin Newsom anunció hoy un mandato de […]

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, October 1. Police reform + racial justice Better late than never. That was the message undergirding a stack of criminal and racial justice bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Thursday, a year after many of them failed to make it out of the Democratic-controlled state Legislature. California now […]

En resumen Un oscuro comité que examinó el código penal de California vio que más de la mitad de sus recomendaciones fueron al gobernador. Read this article in English.    Doce libros almacenados en una biblioteca de la Universidad de Stanford: eso es lo que sucedió con el último esfuerzo por revisar drásticamente el código penal de […]

Read this article in English.    Hace quince años, Kenny Butler estaba sufriendo. Acababa de ser condenado a cadena perpetua.  Ahora Butler, de 47 años, está en camino de obtener su licenciatura a través de un nuevo programa en Pitzer College, una pequeña escuela privada de artes liberales en el sur de California. El programa, que comenzó […]

The Cal Grant program has not kept pace with the changing needs of students, while evolving into a complex patchwork of programs.

Lea este artículo en español. Fifteen years ago, Kenny Butler was at a low point.  He had just been sentenced to life in prison.  Now Butler, 47, is on track to earn his bachelor’s degree through a new program at Pitzer College, a small private liberal arts school in Southern California. The program, which began last […]

An obscure committee examining California’s penal code saw more than half its recommendations go to the governor. Gov. Newsom signed all the bills.

The opportunity to provide transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds will fill a critical equity gap toward accessing early education.