California County Superintendents Educational Services Association Executive Director Peter Birdsall said, “County superintendents have been at the front line of review and approval of school district LCAPs. The Board’s action today reflects the lessons learned from this first year experience—the new...
6. The money "is a first step towards creating an easier to access system for mental health care. But it's just a first step," Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement. The Steinberg Institute he founded had advocated for even more money. "We're going to continue to fight...
Another unpleasant surprise lurks in the shadows for insurers—assessments from the Fair Access to Insurance Requirement (FAIR) plan, the state’s insurer of last resort. When the FAIR plan’s capital is unable to cover losses (as is almost certain to be the case in 2025), the FAIR plan...
"This has affected the rich and the poor equally, which I don't often see at the same time," she said. "There's a lot of class warfare resentment, because it's become a very public, celebrity, wealthy person's crisis in the media." Read more here. Bethenny Frankel mobilizes "BStro...
Are more and wider roads needed to allow swifter evacuations and easier access for fire engines during future infernos? In the coveted seaside hills, there always is the impulse to rebuild after fires - it's happened many times. But there are inevitable questions about whether it's sensible...
a parcel of land on a slope provides a high reward. However, whether it’s the extra excavation involved to cut and fill orcantileverout on a flat surface, the complications ofwater drainage, or the loss oflightand difficulty of access at the front of the property, building on sloped terr...
The initiative legalizes abortion access through fetal viability — about 22 to 24 weeks — and allows for termination in the final months of pregnancy if there’s a threat to the health or life of the mother. The initiative won with the backing of voters ...
“In a time of need and crisis, people need to see their representatives working together,” Newsom said during his visit. “I have no patience for people not working together in a crisis.” Newsom again reiterated his needs to leaders in Washington in a letter late last ...
City council members have defended the moves to restrict access to certain types of literature as in the best interests of Huntington Beach’s children. “The whole goal [is] to make our libraries the safest place for our children,” Mayor Pro TemGracey Van Der Marksaidwhen the ...
The fires that reduced Altadena, Pacific Palisades and other Los Angeles-area neighborhoods to rubble have also shined a harsh light on California’s raging insurance crisis.