State & Regional Education
State may lose 'No Child Left Behind' waiver bid
Federal education officials were poised to reject California's self-styled bid to avoid the strict requirements of the No Child Left Behind law Wednesday, as widely anticipated. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said U.S. Department of Education officials informed him last week that they were prepared to deny the ...
Brown: Medi-Cal expansion could hit state budget
Expanding the state's Medi-Cal program to meet new federal guidelines could add up to $4 billion a year in costs at the same time California is implementing federal health reform, potentially putting its budget "right out of whack," Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, ...
Gun maker investment slipped through teacher fund
The nation's largest teachers' pension fund announced Tuesday that it was reviewing all its firearms holdings after one investment with ties to last week's Connecticut school massacre slipped through the pension's own ethics review. The California State Teachers' Retirement System, which manages $155 billion in assets, was looking at whether ...
UC Berkeley group protests proposed ban of Salvation Army bins
A student group at the University of California at Berkeley took to a campus plaza Thursday morning to protest the student government's proposal to ban Salvation Army donation bins on campus. The Young Americans for Liberty at UC Berkeley, a campus libertarian group, started their protest around 10 a.m. at ...
Online petition calls on UC to scrap new logo
The University of California's new logo isn't getting high marks from some students, employees and alumni. More than 45,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the university to scrap the recently designed icon, which features a yellow, faded "C" inside a blue, book-shaped "U." Online critics are calling ...
Legislative session marked by Democratic dominance
Democratic legislative leaders say they will avoid talking about higher taxes as the Legislature convenes Monday for the first time since Democrats secured supermajorities in both houses. Voters last month gave the Democrats two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly and Senate for the first time in 130 years, giving ...
College launches research institute devoted to pot
A public university located in one of California's prime pot-growing regions has formed an academic institute devoted to marijuana. The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research at Humboldt State University plans to sponsor scholarly lectures and coordinate research among 11 faculty members from fields such as economics, geography, politics, psychology ...
New CSU chancellor requests, receives 10 percent salary cut
The incoming chancellor of the California State University system was granted his wish Wednesday to have his future salary reduced by 10 percent. The salary decrease for Timothy White to a new total of $410,000 per year was approved Wednesday by the university's Board of Trustees at a meeting at ...
State budget deficit shrinks to $1.9B with taxes
California's nonpartisan budget analyst says the state now faces a much smaller deficit of $1.9 billion through the end of the next fiscal year and could even see surpluses after that. The Legislative Analyst's Office released a positive but cautious forecast Wednesday in the state's first budget assessment since Californians ...
CSU BOARD postpones vote on proposed fee increases
A scheduled vote Tuesday by the California State University board of trustees on a proposed fee structure change intended to accelerate graduation throughout the CSU system has been postponed, university officials said. The proposal to modify the undergraduate fee structure at the meeting held in Long Beach was part of ...
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