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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature reached an agreement June 22 on a 2020-2021 state budget that has fewer cuts for K-12 education than were proposed in May.
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As the housing crisis has grown across California, the state has seen a rise in the number of “super commuters,” residents who commute longer hours to cities starved of affordable housing, including those in the Bay Area.
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A state bill that would prohibit state law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement was approved Monday to reach the California State Senate.
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A bill proposed by California state senators Jan. 24 would add a third gender option to birth certificates and driver’s licenses, allowing Californians to identify as nonbinary.
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Undergraduate tuition for California residents will not go up in the next two years and the state will make a large investment in the university’s pension system, according to an agreement reached between UC President Janet Napolitano and Gov. Jerry Brown.
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UC President Janet Napolitano announced a cap on next year’s out-of-state student enrollment at two UC campuses and a freeze on enrollment of California students in her testimony to the state assembly budget subcommittee on education finance Tuesday.
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Introduced by State Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, the Affordable Housing Plan is an attempt to confront the state’s issue of homelessness by taxing real estate transaction documents, increasing the state’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and using portions of funds saved from Proposition 47 to invest in rapid re-housing for formerly incarcerated Californians.
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The university will delay implementation of a tuition hike previously set to start this summer, UC President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday.
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The California State Assembly met in Sacramento Wednesday to review university expenditures at the first budget hearing of the year.
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A committee of the UC Board of Regents unanimously voted during its meeting at UCSF Wednesday to establish an advisory committee, which will examine ways to reduce the university’s cost structure.
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