Cal State officials are projecting a 2025-26 budget hole of about $400 million to $800 million and warning of layoffs and cuts to academic programs. San Jose State has cut $55 million the past two years, by not hiring new staff and avoiding replacing non-faculty job openings.
As part of a California reparations package, Gov. Newsom signed a bill to officially apologize for slavery, but he vetoed others sought by reparations supporters.
If a victorious Donald Trump implements Project 2025, California will face an ultimatum: Report sensitive abortion data to the government or jeopardize Medicaid funding. A former Trump Health and Human Services appointee wrote this section of the campaign document.
Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing, but California State University already offers these degrees.
Some California communities are resisting progressive policies from Sacramento. Democrats in the Legislature say they are going too far and are responding with bills to shut them down.
Party leaders at the Democratic convention in Chicago sent a clear message to California delegates: Kamala Harris needs a Democratic Congress to succeed if she’s elected president.
Responding to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s calls for a crackdown, officials in the San Mateo-Foster City School District and others across the state say banning smartphones improves test scores and results in a decline in depression, bullying and fights.
Proposition 32 to increase the minimum wage from $16 to $18 isn’t as far-reaching as when it was first proposed. Fast food workers are already making more, and health care employees are on track. But worker groups are already pushing for more.