Report: California Budget Cuts Hit Poor Schools Harder
A new report from researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles shows state budget cuts have widened the gap between schools in poor and wealthy communities.
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A new report from researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles shows state budget cuts have widened the gap between schools in poor and wealthy communities.
Gov. Jerry Brown is "checking in" with the people of California over YouTube.
An Italian news agency says that U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized briefly in Rome with a minor ailment.
A former candidate for the state assembly died after collapsing on the dance floor at a party for the state convention, California GOP officials said Sunday.
California Republicans on Sunday approved a compromise that leaves in place the current nominating system for GOP candidates in 2012 and will let party members use mail-in balloting to endorse candidates for office starting in 2014.
With half the state budget gap resolved, California lawmakers saved the toughest questions for this week as they decide on possible tax extensions, the elimination of redevelopment agencies and how to tax businesses.
After steep losses at the polls and successive years of dwindling registration, California Republicans gathered this weekend amid infighting over the direction of a party that is ideologically divided and facing an uncertain future in a rapidly changing state.
California Republicans are meeting in Sacramento this weekend at a time of high tension within the party, with GOP lawmakers being pressured to avoid compromise with Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the party struggling to maintain relevance.
A majority of Californians say their personal financial status is stabilizing compared to previous years, but fewer than half say the state remains "one of the best places to live," according to the results of a Field Poll released Friday.
Indicating they have gone as far as they can for now, California lawmakers on Thursday took a break from budget votes after tackling about half of the state's $26.6 billion shortfall through cuts, loans and transfers.
Democratic lawmakers say they are chipping away at California's $26.6 billion budget shortfall as Gov. Jerry Brown tries to persuade Republicans to support his plans to eliminate redevelopment agencies and call a special election for extending tax hikes.
After suffering widespread losses at the polls in 2010, the California Republican Party is trying to regroup and stay relevant in a state that appears to be leaning less and less toward Republican ideology.
California lawmakers have made headway on a budget package aimed at closing the state's $26.6 billion deficit, but two of the plan's most contentious elements remain undecided.
California lawmakers convened Wednesday to take up a budget package aimed at closing the state's $26.6 billion deficit -- a plan that has sharply divided Democrats and Republicans.
California school districts have issued at least 19,000 layoff notices to teachers and other school employees amid heightened uncertainty over the state budget, the teachers union said Tuesday.
