March 27, 2013, 6:05 AM
A new report by the Public Policy Institute of California examines how nearly $1.5 billion in budget cuts in recent years has limited access to the state’s community college system. I asked California Watch’s higher education reporter, Erica Perez, to help break down what the...
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March 25, 2013, 6:20 PM
California Watch invites you to share your insights and experiences regarding the Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona. On April 3, reporter Ryan Gabrielson, who has covered the state’s developmental centers in his series Broken Shield, will participate in a discussion on topics ranging...
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March 25, 2013, 12:00 AM
SAN DIEGO – For many daughters, the kitchen contains their mother’s secrets. In the tumult of pots and pans, the pinches of sugar and salt, reside recipes perfected over time without cookbooks, experience and intuition the only guides. For East African daughters in City Heights, a...
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March 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
California's community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away, even as budget shortfalls have forced reductions in core academic functions.
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March 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
California community college trustees are entrusted with making sure districts meet the needs of the community. They help shape a district’s goals and review policies, but since 1978, they have not had control over revenues – the state does.
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March 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
If some of California’s 72 community college districts could consolidate their bureaucracies, millions of dollars could be saved and redirected to pay for additional class sections and student services.
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March 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
Dozens of community college districts in California – no more than 20 miles apart – spend millions on similar administrative costs. Find out how much money is being spent in our interactive.
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March 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
To get a better idea of possible savings that could be achieved by consolidating executives at geographically close community college districts, we chose to dig in deeper on a group of 16 districts.
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March 15, 2013, 1:50 PM
We drink it, we bathe with it, we even swim in it – but we may not often think about water. What is the source of the water we're drinking? What happens when whole communities don't have access to clean water? Here are four stories that explore how we interact with water. We...
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March 12, 2013, 8:05 AM
Reporter Ryan Gabrielson has won a national award for excellence in police reporting for exposing the shoddy practices of an internal police force patrolling California’s developmental centers for the disabled. Gabrielson, who covers law and order for California Watch and its parent...
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March 12, 2013, 12:00 AM
Any commercial fisherman used to be able to fish in U.S. seas. Not anymore. Today, the right to fish belongs to companies and private individuals under a system called "catch shares."
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March 12, 2013, 12:00 AM
Sweeping across the globe is a system that slowly and steadily hands over a $400 billion ocean fishing industry to corporations.
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March 8, 2013, 12:05 AM
At least three board members overseeing underfunded municipal retirement systems in California have scrapped plans to attend a conference in Hawaii even as conference organizers defended the gathering after a recent California Watch report revealed that some pension funds planned to send as many as...
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March 7, 2013, 5:38 PM
A former employee of the Sonoma Developmental Center has been tapped to head California’s largest full-time care facility for the severely disabled, at a time when the institution is struggling to reinvent itself in the wake of patient abuse scandals. The Department of Developmental...
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March 7, 2013, 6:05 AM
As more cities turn to private companies to run public transit systems, our recent investigation shows that privatization may not be the silver bullet that cash-strapped municipalities were hoping for. In Fairfield, where the city’s suburban landscape makes it difficult to provide...
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