California’s local governments — cities especially — and school districts have been packing ballots with tax increase measures in recent years and another batch is on...
Seven years after California started pumping billions of dollars into schools with the neediest students — an attempt to narrow a chronic academic achievement gap — a...
A decade ago, at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request, I supervised a graduate student team that performed a comprehensive analysis of public pensions in California. The goal was to...
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld a decision by state lawmakers to rollback one way for public workers to pad their pensions,...
There’s bitter irony in the loud complaints from California school officials and unions – particularly in large urban districts – about not having enough money. Schools...
There is a substantial list of governance issues that former Gov. Jerry Brown said were important, but that he left on his desk for successor Gavin...
Early childhood education. A top-tier national ranking for K-12 per-pupil spending. A data system that would track kids from nursery school through state universities. California’s Legislature...
In Dan Walters’ Feb. 21 CALmatters column, Walters touches on a topic to which he has already lent considerable ink: public union pension plans. This time,...
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