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About 350 teachers, students, superintendents, union leaders, workers, parents and school board presidents from Alameda County rallied and spoke with legislators in Sacramento on Wednesday, calling for more public education funding in California, according to the Alameda County Office of Education’s director of communications and public affairs Michelle Smith McDonald.
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The California Senate Public Safety Committee passed SB 22 — also known as the “Sexual Assault Victims’ DNA Bill of Rights” — on Tuesday, according to a press release by District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who co-sponsored the legislation.
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On Friday, the UC Office of the President, or UCOP, withdrew its initial objections to UC academic researchers joining the UC postdoctoral researchers union to create Academic Researchers United/UAW Local 5810, or ARU/UAW Local 5810.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday suspending California’s death penalty, and placing the 737 current death row inmates — among them 42 people from Alameda County — on reprieve.
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A ruling from U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken on Friday decided that the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, violated the federal antitrust law by limiting athlete compensation.
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State assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, is proposing and co-authoring a package of bills that will address the housing crisis in California by protecting renters, promoting affordable housing and developing sustainable living for all income levels.
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College athletes have brought in billions of dollars to campuses — some even risk their lives to play their sports. These students are forced to compromise on academics and financial stability to support their campus. They deserve fair compensation for these sacrifices — and if the NCAA won’t allow campuses to pay student-athletes, it should, at the very least, permit athletes the right to be compensated through sponsorships.
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College athletes in California may soon be able to sign external sponsorship deals and receive other kinds of pay with the introduction of the “Fair Pay to Play Act,” or SB 206, by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, on Tuesday.
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Berkeleyside and the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the city of Berkeley Wednesday over the city’s refusal to release police records.
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After UC employees reported hundreds of malfunctions with recently implemented payroll system UCPath, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, voiced their concerns in letters to UC chancellors, demanding that the issue be addressed.
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