With the passage of Friday's suspense file deadline, more bills were culled from lawmakers' 2019 wish list, or altered. Among them: a push to make retail receipts electronic, an effort to encourage pets in homeless shelters and stricter rules for servicers of student loans.
A bill to allow student athletes to earn compensation for the use of their names and images could provide the most benefit to women, walk-on players and those playing in less high-profile sports and schools, its author says.
Less tax-and-spendy than expected, California's $215 billion budget delivers more for working and poor families, but avoids most new taxes and stops short of health care for all.
Matthew Polamalu was spending 1.5 hours each day commuting back and forth to community college along Southern California’s congested freeways when he decided he’d had enough. He sat down at his computer and Googled “community colleges with dorms.” “I was just looking for the full college experience,” said the psychology major. He found it in […]
It’s your junior year of high school, and you want to go to college. You’ve heard your salary can be a lot higher if you have a bachelor’s degree, but getting into a good school is difficult and finishing college is even harder. Plus, school can be pricey, so you want to ensure you’ll get a good education with little to no debt.
California’s financial aid system could get its biggest overhaul in 20 years if a proposal backed by key Assembly Democrats becomes law. And that’s just one of a slew of college affordability bills in play this legislative session. Call it ‘The Year of the Struggling Student’: Concern about the nation’s $1.5 trillion in student debt, […]
Unethical and even criminal tactics used to slide students into prestigious universities cannot be tolerated. But there’s something else we should not tolerate: the insufficient higher education capacity to meet student demand in California.