State & Regional Education
Decades-old club drug sees resurgence with teens
An old club drug with a new name is catching on in a big way with teens and college students in the Bay Area and it's getting plenty of free advertising from popular culture. The club drug, known simply as Molly, is supposed to be the latest way to really ...
All schools to get more money under Brown's reform
All California schools will receive at least the same amount of money as they currently do, and poorer ones will receive significantly more, under Gov. Jerry Brown's sweeping proposal to change K-12 education funding, according to district-by-district estimates released Wednesday. Last month, the Democratic governor released a budget plan that ...
Officials find C-4 ingredient after UC Davis blast
Investigators found explosive materials, including a primary ingredient used in military C-4, after a University of California, Davis, chemistry researcher was injured in an explosion in his apartment last month, prosecutors said. Yolo County prosecutors said during a hearing Friday that several common explosives were recovered in the apartment of ...
Report: State school districts misspent cafeteria money
California school districts have misspent tens of millions of dollars intended to provide subsidized meals to low-income students, according to a state Senate report released Wednesday. The California Department of Education recently ordered eight districts to repay about $170 million to programs that offer free and reduced-price lunches and breakfasts, ...
Days of small K-3 classes look done for in Calif.
California embarked on an ambitious experiment in 1996 to improve its public schools by putting its youngest students in smaller classes. Nearly 17 years later, the goal of maintaining classrooms of no more than 20 pupils in the earliest grades has been all but discarded— a casualty of unproven results, ...
Cal State system has $250 million funding gap
California State University officials said Tuesday they will need nearly $250 million more in state funding for the next academic year than is currently proposed, an amount that Gov. Jerry Brown called "a dream more than reality." Brown warned the board of trustees at its Tuesday meeting that any request ...
UC Davis researcher jailed after release from hospital
A University of California, Davis, researcher who was injured in an explosion at his campus apartment early Thursday has been arrested, police said. David Snyder, 32, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of possessing an explosive, possessing materials with the intent to make a destructive device and possessing firearms on campus, ...
Court: State lawmakers violated law to help Brown
California lawmakers violated the state Constitution when they passed a bill that gave Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative top billing on the November ballot, a state appeals court ruled Friday. The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said lawmakers were wrong to sidestep a two-thirds vote requirement to immediately ...
UC: No tuition hike needed under Brown's budget
The University of California can avoid raising tuition this fall if the 10-campus system gets the funding increase proposed in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan, school leaders said Thursday at a UC board meeting attended by the state's top elected officials. University leaders said they welcomed the governor's proposal to ...
University of California wants more classes online
University of California leaders on Wednesday called for an expansion of online courses to help the 10-campus system contain costs, broaden access and hold down tuition rates. UC President Mark Yudof said the university plans to launch several online education initiatives, including an incentive program to encourage faculty members to ...
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