covid-19

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Inside schools’ strange likely new reality

California schools face big changes when they reopen. Investigation finds Bill Brough committed sexual harassment. Farmers grapple with pandemic impact.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 28, 2020

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Labor vs. Uber, Lyft on Nov. ballot

Voters to decide fate of Uber, Lyft. Assembly to gather for historic budget hearing. Newsom clears places of worship for partial reopening.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 26, 2020

More than a thousand gathered in front of the California Capitol building to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom's stay at home order and demand that the state re-open on May 1, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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Businesses, counties to state: Try to stop us

Businesses, counties threaten to flout stay-at-home orders. UC ditches SAT and ACT tests. Jobs held by immigrant women hit hard during pandemic.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 22, 2020

Members of the Air National Guard look over a field hospital set up in the Fresno Convention Center to provide additional hospital beds in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by John Walker, The Fresno Bee

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CA spent millions on hospitals for few patients

California spent millions for hospital beds it hasn't needed. Jobs held by immigrant women hit hardest during pandemic. Big cuts to early childhood budget.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 21, 2020

Oakland Technical High School students leave campus after it was announced that all Oakland schools would close for three weeks over coronavirus concerns on March 13, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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CA is reopening. Will schools?

Superintendents say budget cuts could delay start of school year. Cuts to adult day programs could force more seniors into nursing homes.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 20, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration is calling for budget cuts based on an economic model more dire than those of others. Illustration via iStock

经济

Valid assumptions or “tacky bluffs” — the econ forecast shaping Newsom’s budget

Are the Newsom administration’s dismal recession prognostications a reasonable outlier — or “preposterously negative” and a “poker bluff” aimed at ratcheting up pressure for a financial assist from the feds?

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本·克里斯托弗

• 5 月 20, 2020

A grounds crew worker pushes equipment at Oracle Park, the San Francisco Giants' baseball ballpark, in San Francisco on March 26, 2020. The opening of baseball season was delayed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Jeff Chiu, AP Photo

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Are you ready for some baseball?

Newsom pitches starting baseball season in June. Reports warns against giving governor too much power. Medi-Cal cuts expected in budget.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 19, 2020

Regent Eloy Ortiz Oakley listens to public comment during the open session of the UC Regents meeting on January 23, 2020 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center

高等教育

California community college chancellor endorses going online-only this fall

The chancellor of California’s largest college system today said he believes online instruction will be the best course of action this fall.

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米哈伊尔·津施坦

• 5 月 18, 2020

A sign along Olema Bolinas Road asking visitors to stay away on April 22, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

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Is California’s lockdown working?

California remains in limbo as coronavirus cases rise, deaths fail to budge. Budget cuts mostly spare homelessness programs. Concern over released inmates grows.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 18, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2020-2021 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento on May 14, 2020. Photo by AP Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/Pool

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Education, health, welfare on chopping block

Revised budget includes big cuts to education, health care. School districts to make own decisions on reopening. CSU student fees scrutinized by auditor.

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Emily Hoeven

• 5 月 15, 2020

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