2016

教育

The price of education

VALLEJO, Calif. — Vallejo High School teacher Lewis Brown starts his morning government class with a question of the day that takes advantage of newly assigned iPads. Teacher Salary Database “Today is the one year anniversary of the French magazine terrorist assassination,” Brown says. “What was the name of the magazine?” The seniors type on […]

经过 Judy Lin • 1 月 30, 2016

健康

California doles out hefty payments for hepatitis C drugs

Private health plans invoiced the state of California $387.5 million to cover high-cost hepatitis C treatments in Medi-Cal between July 2014 and November 2015, when just 3,624 patients received the treatments, according to the California Department of Health Care Services. The state’s supplemental payments started after managed care plans that cover health services for almost […]

经过 Pauline Bartolone • 1 月 27, 2016

政治

Jerry Brown’s complicated relationship with environmentalists

In 1976, a year into his first term as governor, Jerry Brown signed a bill that came to be seen as one of the strongest environmental protection laws in the country. The California Coastal Act limited development along the 1,100-mile shoreline and guaranteed public access to the beach. Yet just two years later, Brown had […]

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 1 月 26, 2016

政治

Lawmakers reject bills aimed at artificial turf

Is it safe for children to play on fields made of ground up old tires? Recycled tires on California parks The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery gives grants to communities that use products made of recycled tires in their construction projects. Here are a few that won grants for using the substance known […]

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 1 月 20, 2016

健康

The obscurity of drug spending in Medi-Cal

California will be a flashpoint in the policy debate this year around reining in the cost of high-priced prescription drugs. A measure expected to be before voters this November would restrict the state’s payments for drugs to no more than the lowest prices paid for the same drug by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. […]

经过 Pauline Bartolone • 1 月 20, 2016

健康

Care for disabled Californians ensnared in Capitol politics

A strange thing is happening in Sacramento: voices on the political left and right are calling for the state to spend more money on services for Californians with developmental disabilities. The message is coming from Republican legislators, who have delivered boxes of petitions to Gov. Jerry Brown’s office, as well as labor unions that have […]

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 1 月 13, 2016

教育

Is a tax extension needed for California schools?

Gov. Jerry Brown campaigned up and down the state in 2012 to pass a temp orary measure known as Proposition 30, which raised the sales tax for four years and income taxes on high earners for seven years. It generated $8 billion a year to educate California’s 6.2 million elementary and secondary school students. This […]

经过 Judy Lin • 1 月 11, 2016

国会大厦

By the numbers: Analyzing the governor’s budget

Gov. Jerry Brown fired the opening salvo of California’s budget season on Jan. 7 when he unveiled his spending proposal for the fiscal year that will start July 1. While the final state budget will likely look much different in June when it is scheduled to be adopted by the Legislature, Brown’s proposal is the […]

经过 马特·莱文 • 1 月 8, 2016

政治

A lobbying rule to catch up with the times

Lobbyists in Sacramento talk about the “inside game” and the “outside game.” The inside game is the one they play under the Capitol dome: testifying in committee hearings, meeting with legislative staff, nabbing lawmakers in the hallway on the way to a crucial vote. “Other” lobbying is huge – and hard to track An excerpt […]

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 1 月 6, 2016

教育

School budgets are growing, but so are pension payments

Gov. Jerry Brown will propose another healthy budget on Thursday that will be vetted and adopted by the Legislature in June. That’s good news for K-12 public education, which accounts for more than 40 percent of state funds. So why aren’t school district officials jumping up and down? One reason is the growing pension contributions […]

经过 Judy Lin • 1 月 6, 2016