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Lawsuit Settlement Forces Accountability on California's Spending for Student Learning Loss
Right by the Bay | March 4, 2024 | Lance Izumi
The state settled a lawsuit, Cayla J. v. the State of California, et al, involving learning-loss funds. According to the publication EdSource ([link removed]) , the state agreed to “pursue statutory changes that would commit districts and schools to measure and report on student progress using proven strategies.” The settlement covers a minimum of $2 billion in state learning-loss funds, “would limit funding to the lowest performing student groups” and would require “strategies backed by evidence that they are effective.”
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Another Housing Package Destined To Fail
Right by the Bay | Kerry Jackson | March 6, 2024
Lee’s package of seven bills is yet another effort among many in recent years that are promised as solutions for California’s housing crisis. Will his initiatives work? Let’s take his proposals one at a time.
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Too Much Government Spending and Volatile Tax Revenues Drive State's Budget Problem
Spending Watch | Wayne Winegarden | March 1, 2024
The root cause of this destructive budget cycle is too much government spending that is enabled by a tax system that showers politicians with unsustainable revenues during good economic times. Since politicians eagerly spend all the money when the state’s coffers are overflowing, expenditures surge to unaffordable levels during economic booms. When the economy slows, as it always does, the unsustainability of the spending spree is revealed by the crash in state tax revenues and the onset of the inevitable budget crisis.
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