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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 234, or the “Keeping Kids Close to Home Act,” into law Tuesday, increasing opportunities and access to child care.

The UC Board of Regents will meet Wednesday and Thursday to discuss issues including a new statement of principles regarding intolerance, a policy to improve UC Health governance and implementation of a recommendation made by the sexual violence task force.

The state Senate Education Committee rejected Wednesday a proposed constitutional amendment that would have restricted the enrollment of and financial aid given to nonresident students.

Mayors of several prominent California cities are urging the passage of a bill in the State Assembly that would give tax credits as an incentive to upgrade and modify seismically ‘at-risk’ buildings.

On Jan. 7, Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that would freeze tuition hikes for the next seven years in recognition of Prop. 30, a tax increase that protected the UC system from a $250 million midyear budget cut.

Sometimes progress and stagnation are one in the same. With a tuition freeze in California’s 2012-13 budget, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed last Wednesday, students in the UC and CSU systems will not face increasing education costs in the coming school year.