Apr. 17—Santa Fe Public Schools can expect a challenging budget process as officials endeavor to comply with a new state rule requiring 180 instructional days without a major increase in funding. In his seven years at the district level, Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez said at a school board meeting Thursday, “This has been the most […]
Hard-line conservatives are turning up the heat on their GOP colleagues who voted Friday to kill a proposed warrant requirement for domestic communications caught up in foreign surveillance operations. That provision — offered as an amendment to a larger bill renewing a key section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — went down on the […]
In 2013, then-President Barack Obama earned himself the “lie of the year” after he had repeatedly assured Americans, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” That simply wasn’t true, and the rollout of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) caused millions of people to receive cancellation notices. The government’s intrusion into the private health […]
In 2013, then-President Barack Obama earned himself the “lie of the year” after he had repeatedly assured Americans, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” That simply wasn’t true, and the rollout of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) caused millions of people to receive cancellation notices. The government’s intrusion into the private health […]
Roughly 19,000 permanent state workers under the California Natural Resources Agency will be required to return to their offices or work in the field at least twice a week starting this spring. Secretary Wade Crowfoot announced the change Friday afternoon in an all-staff email, which The Sacramento Bee obtained via a California Public Records Act […]
Karen Overbey, a conservative who last year won a seat on the Leavenworth USD 453 Board of Education, says the public comment portions of board meetings are “formal and intimidating,” with no questions or discussion allowed. The board’s procedures, she says, discourage members of the public from engaging with board members and delays any follow-up […]
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed a law last week that includes a mandate for the state’s public schools to teach LGBTQ history, as red and blue states continue to diverge on whether schools should expose kids to gay and transgender identities. The new law, Senate Bill 5462, mandates that the state’s school districts […]
The German Armed Forces will participate in NATO’s Sea Guardian mission to monitor the Mediterranean for another year. The Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, voted on Thursday by a large majority in favour of extending the mandate. The surveillance mission with ships and boats is intended to contribute to the fight against terrorism and […]
A bill aimed at protecting children from online pornography is making its way through the state Legislature, and with it, Oklahoma has joined a fight being waged across the country over porn, free speech and safety for minors. Senate Bill 1959, authored by Sen. Jerry Alvord, R-Wilson, would require online pornography sites to require age […]
Wisconsin is one step closer to requiring Asian American history education in schools. The state Senate’s committee on education voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that would mandate the teaching of Asian American and Hmong American history in K-12 public schools. While similar bills have been introduced in the last 20 years, this legislation […]
This article was originally published in Oregon Capital Chronicle. Three years ago, Valeria Atanacio urged state lawmakers to pass a bill aiming to increase Indigenous families’ access to early learning and child care programs. When the Oregon Legislature embraced the proposal — called the Tribal Early Learning Hub — she considered it a victory. “That […]
Matt Williams has never worked a hybrid schedule before — only 100% in person or 100% telework from his home. The latter, he said, benefits both state employees and California taxpayers. For four years before the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Williams drove each day from his home in Elk Grove to the California Air […]