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A San Francisco Unified School District administrator urged teachers to re-evaluate whether to offer summer school to special education students as a way to cut costs, a move that special education teachers and attorneys say violates federal regulations. Lisa Miller, the district’s head... + read more

A little-known commission could be empowered to provide more oversight of the California Department of Parks and Recreation after an investigation revealed the department sat on a multimillion-dollar budget surplus for years. This week, state Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, plans to... + read more

More than 6.2 million students attend K-12 public schools in California, but the conditions of the classrooms they sit in, playgrounds they run on and cafeterias they eat in are largely unknown. Unlike 22 other states in the country, California does not have a statewide inventory of its public... + read more

California has funded less than half of an $800 million program intended to repair shoddy school facilities. The Emergency Repair Program, which was born out of a landmark class-action lawsuit that sought to entitle every student to a clean, safe and functional school, should be in its final year... + read more

Alameda is preparing to replace one of its fire stations, even though the city does not know how it will pay for the new building. Officials are moving forward with the project while sorting through conflicting reports about the appropriate level of fire service for the city. The reports have... + read more

A massive undertaking by the U.S. Coast Guard to purchase new ships and aircraft continues to be plagued by tens of billions of dollars in cost overruns, poor budget planning and scheduling setbacks, according to congressional investigators from the Government Accountability Office. ... + read more