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Tag: school spending

california schools

Follow the money: Are changes coming for California’s school funding law?

Ricardo Cano by Ricardo Cano January 8, 2020January 8, 2020

A critical state audit has made oversight of spending on disadvantaged students a first order of business for California lawmakers. 

Mrs. Kilgore’s fifth and sixth grade classroom on December 13, 2019. Smart classrooms were one of the upgrades the school received when the building was rebuilt.

For small, rural, crumbling — and closing — classrooms, a possible solution: new school bond rules

Ricardo Cano by Ricardo Cano December 17, 2019December 19, 2019
Charter advocates rally outside the offices of the California Teachers Association on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, as state lawmakers consider union-backed bills to dramatically curb charter schools. Photo for CALmatters by Dan Morain

California opinions on charter schools are divided—and more complex than portrayed

Ricardo Cano by Ricardo Cano April 24, 2019June 23, 2020
Sandra Falwell, right, and fellow nurses rally to hear Senator Bernie Saunders speak at the annual convention of the California Nurses Association at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Saunders, who introduced a single-payer health care legislation, is trying to bring more attention to and gather support for his bill. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)

The coming battles over Obamacare, schools, housing and cap and trade

Dan Morain by Dan Morain December 17, 2018July 8, 2019
Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom hopes to expand early childhood education, the better to prepare kindergartners like this class in Fremont for school. Photo by Gary Reyes, Bay Area News Group

Can California afford Gavin Newsom’s vision for school kids? Here’s your K-12 primer for 2019

Ricardo Cano by Ricardo Cano December 16, 2018June 23, 2020
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