California
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price will face a recall vote in the latest test for a national movement to overhaul the criminal justice system…
On Friday, 4/19, hundreds of city leaders were in Sacramento to unite over common concerns…
A ballot measure being pushed by business groups could place strict new limits on the ability of state and local governments to raise taxes…
Governor Gavin Newsom has cracked down on cities that fall short on housing…
The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up a case this morning with monumental consequences for how California cities address encampments…
President and Administration
On Thursday, 4/4, Biden-Harris Administration announced substantial updates to the Office of Management and Budget’s Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance…
Understaffed nursing homes across the country could be required to hire thousands of additional caregivers under a new rule from the Biden administration…
On Tuesday, 4/16, the Education Department unveiled a draft proposal to broadly cancel swaths of student loan debt for millions of borrowers…
After months of tending to foreign policy conflagrations, sticky inflation numbers, and various other pop-up crises, the White House is zeroing back in on a key part of its domestic agenda: gun violence…
The federal government hasn't done enough to tackle illicit fentanyl, Anne Milgram, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Thursday, 4/18…
On Friday, 4/19, the U.S. Department of Education restored protections for students against sexual harassment and assault that many advocates argued were lost under the previous administration…
Education
The Oakland REACH and the Oakland Unified School District have teamed up to pilot a math tutoring program that has shown early positive results and is modeled after one that has already delivered significant student gains in reading…
Minnesota is soon expected to enact a first-of-its-kind law promoting teacher training on ableism and the history of the disability justice movement…
The sixth-graders learning about ancient Greek vases in their classroom at John Street School looked like students in nearly any other social studies class in the country…