December 15, 2010, 5:50 AM
Jerry Brown is calling on Californians to come together to resolve the state's deepening budget crisis, but he got a heavy dose of how difficult that will be at the forum he hosted in Los Angeles focused on education financing. Although their tone was conciliatory, school...
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December 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
The number of Californians seeking to become teachers has plummeted by 45 percent over a seven year period – even as student enrollments are projected to rise by 230,000 over the next decade and as many as 100,000 teachers are expected to retire. Teaching is clearly becoming a less and...
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December 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
In Sacramento's desperate attempts to balance the state's budget, California's K-12 public schools and community colleges have been especially hard hit compared to reductions in funding for all other state programs. That's according to calculations by Strategic Education...
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December 7, 2010, 12:05 AM
What? You say you haven't gotten your fill of debates, robocalls, and Two Minutes Hate attack ads that owned the airwaves for two months while the leaves were turning orange? You're in luck: Plenty of politicians seem to agree with you. About a month removed from one of the more...
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November 19, 2010, 12:06 AM
As one of his last acts as attorney general, Jerry Brown has done something so unusual and, in the opinion of one attorney, so questionable it apparently contradicts a ruling by the California Supreme Court. He's suing his own client – a state agency accused of making an unfair...
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November 17, 2010, 12:05 AM
There has been no shortage of political profiteering in recent months over corruption and salary shenanigans down in the now-infamous city of Bell, but a judge's recent criticism of a civil suit filed by Attorney General Jerry Brown has given ammunition to defense lawyers who have long argued...
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November 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown will face substantial challenges in implementing many parts of his education platform, arguably the most detailed of any California governor in recent memory. The platform [PDF] received little attention during the election campaign. Instead, most discussion of...
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November 10, 2010, 12:05 AM
As part of his campaign pledge to "make government more efficient and effective," Gov.-elect Jerry Brown has promised to do away with the secretary of education position, a fixture in governors' cabinets since the early 1990s. He plans to rely more on the state Board of...
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November 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
In his education plan, Governor-elect Jerry Brown acknowledged the problem of rapidly increasing fees at California's four-year universities. "When I was governor, the price students paid for a higher education was a fraction of what it is today," he noted. So what can kind...
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November 4, 2010, 12:05 AM
Amid growing criticism and government scrutiny of for-profit colleges, Democrat Jerry Brown and other California candidates this year reaped a healthy chunk of campaign cash from education giant Apollo Group and its wealthy chairman. The Arizona-based parent company of the University of...
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November 3, 2010, 9:03 AM
Kamala Harris slight lead for attorney general Democrat Kamala Harris, the district attorney of San Francisco, has pulled ahead of Republican Steve Cooley in the race for California attorney general. Harris was receiving 46.1 percent of the vote compared to Cooley, the Los Angeles...
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November 3, 2010, 12:04 AM
For the first time in a generation, California voters elected a governor without getting a peek at the candidates’ tax returns. By law, 1040s are confidential. But in the interest of transparency and full disclosure, candidates for governor have provided news reporters access to several...
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November 2, 2010, 12:05 AM
There were the fundraisers at the U.S. Grant Hotel in San Diego (cost to stage: $71,000), the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills ($42,900), the Bernardus Lodge & Winery in Carmel Valley ($20,564), and the Princeton and Harvard clubs in New York City ($12,300 combined). Then there were the...
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November 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
A costly new method of prosecuting questionable doctors has not resulted in better enforcement, according to a management consultant hired by the state. The report will be presented this week and already has generated strong opposition. Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office issued a...
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November 1, 2010, 12:05 AM
Over the last two weeks, more than two dozen major campaign donors to Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown have been scrambling to hedge their bets. At least 14 donors who once backed Whitman have donated $5,000 or more to Brown's campaign since Oct. 14, perhaps owing to her recent decline in the...
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