By Anthony Wright
Governor Jerry Brown announced his May Revision of the California State Budget on Tuesday, declaring for the first time in decades a multi-year balanced budget. In his brief remarks unveiling the proposal, the Governor highlighted pla…
By Anthony Wright
Governor Jerry Brown announced his May Revision of the California State Budget on Tuesday, declaring for the first time in decades a multi-year balanced budget. In his brief remarks unveiling the proposal, the Governor highlighted pla…
By Linda Leu
“We are in an Extraordinary Session because we must do extraordinary things to move the state forward,” said Assemblymember Mariko Yamada in her testimony in support of ABX1 1 (Speaker Perez), the bill to expand and streamline the Medi-Cal…
By Lisa Schiff
A friend of mine emailed me last fall incredibly worried about the impact of potential sequestration cuts on schools and students across the country. He was a long-time Washington D.C.-based public education advocate, so I was simultaneo…
By Robert Cruickshank
Last week’s big news was the announcement from Governor Jerry Brown that the state budget is out of perennial deficit and looking at several years of surpluses. We’ll talk more about what those surpluses mean and how they ought to…
By Lisa Schiff
The New Year marks the half-way point of the academic year for students in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). With a dramatic election finally over, January finds us without the threat of immediate financial catastrophe (…
By Christopher AllenCalifornia Progress Report
California Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his 2013-14 budget proposal yesterday, declaring that the state’s lean years of budget deficits are over. In place of dramatic spending cuts, the governor’s $97.6 b…