Calif. Seeks To Shelve Current Standardized Tests
Education officials are proposing to do away with the standardized reading and math tests California public school students have taken since the late 1990s.
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Education officials are proposing to do away with the standardized reading and math tests California public school students have taken since the late 1990s.
Homeowners want to know why they would be in charge of public property, and they'll get their chance to voice their opinion at Tuesday night's meeting.
Pending legislation would authorize the athletic commission — which already oversees full-contact boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts for adults — to establish regulations for youth pankration competitions.
A bill heading to Gov. Jerry Brown would allow nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform a type of early abortion.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is California's acting governor, with the state's two top chief executives out of state over the holiday weekend.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the nation's first-of-its-kind law in California prohibiting health practitioners from offering psychotherapy aimed at making gay youth straight.
In a direct slap to Gov. Jerry Brown, his fellow Democrats in the state Senate on Wednesday rejected his plan for dealing with California's prison crisis, throwing the state's response to a federal court order into chaos.
The state Senate approved a bill on Monday that would require drivers to stay at least three feet away from bicyclists when they are passing in the same direction, despite Gov. Jerry Brown's previous vetoes of similar legislation.
A bill that would allow nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform a type of early abortion is one step away from the governor.
"I didn't have any idea. I think early on the Maloofs came out and said they weren't behind it, so that was kind of relieving. I was relieved to hear that they weren't. And when we all found out it was Chris Hansen, you know, I was surprised."
"The fires that are ripping through Oregon and Idaho and California and the West are just proof that the fire prevention policy is broken," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, said from Lincoln City.
Perry makes frequent trips to California. Some of the earliest support for his 2012 presidential bid came from major Republican donors in California.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that a judge's ruling that California's $68 billion high-speed rail plan has not followed the terms approved by voters will not stop construction of the project, which is among his top priorities.
The California Republican Party says Texas Gov. Rick Perry will headline its fall convention in Anaheim.
The state Senate has approved a bill outlawing so-called "revenge porn," which lawmakers say is an increasing problem on the Internet.
