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A highly readable and timely account of the Democratic Party’s fall from power also points the way to its redemption.
A warehouse project is planned for a Los Angeles area that is among the very worst in the state for the threats that toxic cleanups and hazardous wastes pose.
Last month tenants in a large apartment complex were close to an agreement that would have kept their units affordable. Suddenly, they are facing eviction again.
Still pending in a follow-up budget bill is language that would limit the ability of charter schools to cherry-pick enrollment.
Youth, the elderly and whole families are tumbling into homelessness at a faster rate than they can be helped onto their feet.
A warehouse project is planned for a Los Angeles area that is among the very worst in the state for the threats that toxic cleanups and hazardous wastes pose.
In the first half of the 2018-2019 school year, LAUSD called police more than 3,000 times.
Will California fix charter authorizations? Also: Who killed L.A.’s school-tax measure?
From Slab City to the Gran Plaza, residents ”eke by” in the shadows of California agribusiness.
Restorative justice remains a new way of thinking for Los Angeles’ 1,300 public schools — even as administrators continue to call the cops on troublesome students.
Borders, boundaries and barriers have been a way of life in the lower Sacramento Valley since the Gold Rush days. The newest form of green line here is charter schools.
Reporter Joe Rubin explains how California’s public health department dropped the ball in a Bay Area contamination case.
About 13,200 minors held in detention facilities will have funding for their educational services, recreational programs and legal aid cut by the federal government.
Santa Clara County has not revealed how many of the children who attended a now-shuttered gymnastics facility have been tested for lead.
Federal data show that charter-school teachers leave charters at higher rates than at public schools.
Co-published by Fast Company
A federal program’s critics say it provides questionable benefits for low-income communities and hastens gentrification — while awarding large tax breaks to the wealthiest.
Justine Calma’s Grist article documents the Sisyphean struggle of working-class activists to fight the power of polluting industries.
Also this week: The public school racial wealth gap, charter school operators indicted for stealing millions and CSU applicants may be hit with higher fees.
Twenty-two charters — nearly all of them in high-poverty neighborhoods — accounted for 42 percent of L.A. charter schools’ nearly 3,700 suspensions last year.
Empowered by a 2016 law, the state is quietly transforming the way Californians vote.