California
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top health care priority is heading to voters in March — a package of mental health reforms and a more than $6 billion bond for more treatment capacity…
Sen. Laphonza Butler has until Dec. 8 to decide if she wants to run for a full term next year…
Pro-housing activists had a blockbuster year in the Legislature, notching some of their biggest wins since the YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) movement got its start in the Bay Area more than a decade ago…
On Tuesday, 10/10, Governor Newsom signed a law that will require data brokers to delete all information collected on individuals, when requested…
On Tuesday, 10/10, dozens of business executives, school superintendents and labor leaders gathered at the California Department of Education in Sacramento to discuss expanding paid internships for high school students throughout the state…
On Friday, 10/13, the White House announced that California will receive up to $1.2 billion in funding from the Department of Energy to produce and create a market for renewable hydrogen…
President and Administration
Across the country, almost 690 nursing homes have shut their doors since 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
A White House official says the administration will soon announce additional commitments from the private and public sectors to meet its goal of reducing diet-related disease by 2030…
HealthBegins firmly believes that the Community Health Worker, Promotora, and Community Health Representative (CHW/P/R) workforce are critical to delivering effective, equitable care for patients and for advancing health equity for communities harmed by societal practices…
The latest flood of illicit e-cigarettes is arriving from China in Barbiecore colors and fruit, ice cream and slushy flavors, and accounts for a major share of the estimated $5.5 billion e-cigarette market in the United States…
The Biden administration will work to address what a top Education Department official calls “pervasive problems” in the nation’s student loan system…
Congress
Top House appropriators are predicting another stopgap (and blaming the Senate), in a sign that a late-November shutdown might not be in the cards…
Education
On Monday, 10/10, an Oklahoma state board voted to approve a contract for the nation’s first Catholic charter school…
It’s well established that chronic absenteeism has skyrocketed since the pandemic…
On Monday, 10/9, the Texas Senate unveiled its main bill to establish an education savings account program, a priority for Gov. Greg Abbott this special session…
The international debate over technology and youth was jolted two weeks ago by a surprising announcement: Schools in the United Kingdom will soon ban the use of cell phones…
The percentage of charter school students in Washington state scoring proficient in math went up nearly 15 points in the latest round of state tests compared to those administered in the 2020-21 school year, a marked sign of improvement in a subject whose pandemic-era scores nosedived…
Holding back struggling readers in elementary school can yield benefits that extend in surprising directions, a recently released study suggests…
A federal civil rights investigation into a California school district found that staff improperly restrained and secluded special education students and infrequently checked in with them afterward…
As climate disasters become more commonplace, school districts are learning that a strong storm can put learning in a state of disarray…
Four teenagers take turns reading steadily from a teleprompter. Their message is as simple as their videos’ black and white color scheme: With fentanyl, there is no second chance…