A $1.5 billion budget shortfall, student outrage over planned annual 6 percent tuition hikes for at least five years, stubborn racial gaps in graduation rates and widespread distrust over how the university handles sexual assault claims. This is the job that awaits Mildred García, who was named chancellor of the California State University today. García, […]
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Cal State System Proposes Regular Tuition Hikes to Forestall Budget Gap
Multiple years of tuition increases are likely heading to California State University students as the 23-campus system seeks desperately needed cash to afford its academic mission. The institution on Thursday published its proposal to begin raising undergraduate and graduate school tuition by 6 percent annually starting in the fall 2024 academic year. For undergraduates, that […]
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Newsom’s Climate Budget Would Slash Funds that Protect Coast
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom’s proposed $6 billion in reductions to California’s climate change programs […]
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Is California Breaking Its Promise to Cut Health Care Costs?
Brian Iv works in a factory in Orange County, earning around $26 per hour. He suffers chronic pain from a lifetime of manual labor jobs and previous workplace injuries, but often treats the pain with home remedies or traditional Cambodian practices. Going to the doctor is too expensive, he said. Iv recently got a raise […]
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California Will Reward Volunteering College Students with Aid — but Spend Half the Money on Overhead
A new California program to financially reward college students for volunteering has drawn national attention — but less than half of its budgeted money is going to actual student aid. The California Volunteers College Corps program, backed by $159 million in mostly state money, promises to award up to $10,000 to 6,668 low-income students who […]
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Will COVID Sick Leave Return to California?
Labor unions and their Democratic allies in the Legislature want to bring back extra paid sick leave for COVID-19. Gov. Gavin Newsom is also proposing to revive supplemental leave in his budget. But as with so much else in the pandemic, it’s not a simple proposition. There’s opposition from powerful business groups. And key details […]
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Newsom Stops Short of Single-Payer Healthcare
Don’t ask Gov. Gavin Newsom about Democratic lawmakers’ proposal to create a state-funded single-payer health care system — he hasn’t read it. “I have not had the opportunity to review that plan, and no one has presented it to me,” Newsom said Monday while unveiling his record-high $286.4 billion budget proposal — which includes an […]
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Newsom Proposes Expanding California’s Stimulus Checks to Middle Class
At the start of the pandemic a year ago, today’s news would have seemed unimaginable: The Golden State is sitting on a budget surplus so big, it’s considering giving $600 stimulus checks to California workers making up to $75,000, paying off back rent of tenants affected by COVID and helping millions of residents catch up […]
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What Prop. 15’s Defeat Means for California Schools
Voters narrowly defeated Proposition 15, the tax measure that aimed to eliminate decades-long protections for commercial properties – dashing hopes of billions of dollars flowing into California’s cash-strapped public schools and community colleges in the coming years. In the second-most expensive ballot fight this election, Prop. 15 supporters said the measure would help right what they […]
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Supes to Consider Creating a Business Grant Program, LoCO reports
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will be presented next week with a proposed budget for spending around $13 million in CARES Act funding it received, Lost Coast Outpost reports. According to the article, included in the proposal is the development of a “Business Restart and Recovery Program” to distribute grants to local businesses that […]
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Humboldt State Contending with $20 Million Budget Shortfall
Contending with a projected $20 million budget shortfall, Humboldt State University is putting finishing touches on its spending plan — with reductions to be spread over the next two years — and more details are expected to be released in August. HSU’s budget director Amber Blakeslee writes in a letter to the campus community that […]
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UPDATE: Eureka May Lose Four Police Officers, Zoo Director, Due to Budget Cuts
UPDATE (6:37 p.m.) After trouble-shooting myriad technical difficulties with the City’s Zoom feed and audio, the Eureka City Council directed staff to proceed with work on the draft budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Another public hearing will be held July 7. Mayor Susan Seaman encouraged members of the public to give feedback and public […]