WhatMatters
School bonds, breaking up with PG&E, trade war, Stephon Clark, and rabbis
Multi-billion dollar school bond may land on March ballot. Housing bill advances. Municipalities look to break free from PG&E.
school bonds
Newsletters
Mega-fire, guns, elections and honoring veterans
Veterans Day, California wildfires, Trump tweets, revelations on background checks in a new UC Davis gun study, most school bonds pass, most California housing measures fail, World War I marks its 100th anniversary and commentary on conservation.
Education
Voters give another multi-billion-dollar thumbs up to school bonds
California school bond measures totaling some $12 billion are on track for approval by voters across the state.
Education
Data exclusive: With California school bonds, the rich get richer and the poor, not so much
California districts with the most affluent students have been averaging more than twice as many local school bond dollars per student as the most impoverished districts, a CALmatters analysis reveals.
Newsletters
Mattress recycling, net neutrality, school bonds
A mattress recycling audit, net neutrality lawsuits, Pat Bates' challenger Marggie Castellanos runs an ad, school bonds on the November 2018 ballot, Proposition 10 in a minute, Dianne Feinstein, union and the Legislature.
Newsletters
School test scores, #MeToo laws and CURES
California's school test scores, how the CURES opioid database happened, Jerry Brown's #MeToo bills, Orange County political money and teen pregnancy.