January 23, 2013, 12:05 AM
Two dozen of the largest school districts on the state’s financial watch list have raised their superintendents’ salaries since 2009.
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January 22, 2013, 6:05 AM
California Watch is inviting the public to share its thoughts, insights and experiences about the troubled Sonoma Developmental Center, the state’s largest board-and-care facility for the severely disabled. Few people in California are more vulnerable than the patients at the Sonoma...
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January 18, 2013, 5:17 PM
California's largest board-and-care center for the developmentally disabled will surrender more than $1 million a month in federal funding for failures to protect patients from abuse and provide quality medical care, state officials announced today. In December, state regulators cited the...
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January 18, 2013, 12:05 AM
A former Redding hospital patient has sued the Prime Healthcare Services chain for disclosing her medical files to hundreds of people without permission. In a lawsuit filed last month in Shasta County Superior Court, Darlene Courtois, a retired teacher's aide, accused Prime of repeatedly...
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January 16, 2013, 12:59 PM
LOS ANGELES – The first time Amabilia Villeda tried to fix her children’s school, she joined several dozen fellow parents and teachers in a protest outside 24th Street Elementary. That was three years ago. Villeda and the rest of the loosely organized group believed the struggling...
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January 15, 2013, 8:03 AM
As the White House considers proposals to allocate federal money for armed guards in schools, prominent school discipline reform groups have issued a report denouncing the idea as a misguided reaction to the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. “Placing more police in schools has...
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January 15, 2013, 6:05 AM
Is natural always better? Bay Area-based writer Nathanael Johnson seeks to answer that very complicated question in his new book, “All Natural.” In this reported memoir, Johnson, a self-described skeptic, seeks to discover if a more natural approach to life makes one happier...
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January 15, 2013, 6:05 AM
There is, in fact, a vigorous debate over medical intervention in birth, and not just between the fringe and the medical establishment, but within the establishment. No one is suggesting that we revert to the practices of the 1900s, but many clinicians and scientists are warning that the...
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January 3, 2013, 6:17 PM
Even as Los Angeles authorities continue efforts to reform school-discipline standards, fresh data show that police from the city’s biggest school district are continuing to ticket thousands of young students, especially minorities, at disproportionate rates that critics charge are putting...
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December 21, 2012, 12:05 AM
The Oakland Unified School District failed to follow federal regulations in doling out taxpayer money to benefit local private schools and must pay some of it back, a state review has found. The state Department of Education cited Oakland Unified for not meeting federal requirements in its...
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December 21, 2012, 12:05 AM
A Southern California doctor has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to accepting $30,000 in kickbacks to fabricate Medicare claims for home health care services for seniors. The sentencing of Dr. Whan Sil “Victoria” Kim of Hancock Park last week is the...
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December 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
Long wait times are contributing to tens of thousands of veterans being approved for disability benefits and pensions only after they die.
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December 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
After billing Medicare for treating more than 1,100 cases of a rare affliction, a Prime Healthcare Services hospital in Redding abruptly stopped last year, state health records show. The change occurred soon after California Watch published a story about aggressive billing practices at the hospital...
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December 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
State inmates serving life terms are starting to file resentencing petitions with local judges following the passage of Proposition 36, the ballot measure that overhauls California's controversial three strikes law. But opposition from local prosecutors and other factors could limit the number...
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December 18, 2012, 11:20 AM
Anaheim is the home to one of the most well-known and popular amusement parks in the world: Disneyland. It's also the home to a community whose anger at local police has boiled over recently, spilling onto the streets of Anaheim. Watch Al-Jazeera English's video "Fault Lines,...
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