California
Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders have agreed to a deal that would cut between $12 billion and $18 billion from the state’s massive budget shortfall before final budget negotiations this summer…
California voters have agreed to rewrite the state’s decades-old mental health law and borrow $6.4 billion for new facilities to house and treat the most severe cases — a top priority for Gov. Newsom…
Despite back-to-back wet winters, California’s water regulator is working to finalize permanent rules for urban water conservation first imposed by legislation during the height of the drought in 2018…
New legislation announced by Bay Area lawmakers Monday, 3/18, could provide billions in revenue to the region’s struggling public transit agencies…
Social media companies could face enormous financial penalties for harming kids under a California bill that marks the state’s latest attempt to rein in homegrown tech titans…
Many factors have contributed to California’s housing crisis, and one lawmaker is pinning some of the blame on investors…
President and Administration
Roughly 200,000 of the 1.5 million federal student aid records sent to schools now need to be reprocessed by the Education Department…
The Supreme Court was skeptical Monday, 3/18, of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Biden administration from urging social media companies to take down disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and election fraud…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wants schools and providers to urge students to get their measles shot if their vaccinations aren’t up to date…
The Biden administration is doling out another $6 billion in student loan relief for public service workers, bringing the total amount of student debt approved for discharge under President Biden to $144 billion for nearly 4 million Americans…
On Wednesday, 3/20, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced final national pollution standards for passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty vehicles for model years 2027 through 2032 and beyond…
Congress
Both the House and Senate are out for the next two weeks on recess.
Education
The Kentucky Senate on Friday, 3/15, joined the House in passing legislation for a constitutional amendment…
Voucher use in Ohio has grown more than 400 percent in the last 10 years, from 30,000 students in 2013-14 to more than 120,000 today…
Following five years of unsuccessful attempts by Georgia Republican lawmakers to expand the state’s school voucher program…