The funds, known as “indirect costs,” help universities maintain expensive labs and other infrastructure. Trump’s administration seeks to cut that funding by roughly half the current amount.
School officials are scrambling to find an alternate site for its campus while trying to support families, nearly half of whom lost their homes in the fire.
Viviana Mendoza used to hope to be like her father, a bus attendant who cleans LA Metro buses. As an intern in the Metro CEO’s office, she now dreams of running the transit agency.
Some schools destroyed years ago in the Sonoma and Butte fires are just now reopening. The long, expensive process of rebuilding in LA may eat up much of the money voters approved in November for school repairs statewide.
In 2018, Newsom promised to add 500,000 new apprenticeships in the decade after taking office. The state is making progress, but how much depends on the definition of “apprenticeship.”
Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from information online.
Much of the attachment to the U.S. Department of Education is misplaced, argues a California policy advocate and former state superintendent candidate.