Category: Hall Monitor

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has unfunded liabilities of at least $168 billion, meaning it has just more than two-thirds of the funds

A local school district’s unique idea to turn schools into teacher housing — an attempt to tackle the region’s dire housing shortage and retain fleeing

San Diego County’s annual Orchids and Onions competition was celebrated recently and Oceanside Unified School District was a big winner in the Orchid category. Oceanside

The Sacramento City USD is even more in the red than previously thought: By 2020, the district will have a structural deficit of $48 million

Beginning next year, teachers and district personnel assigned to serve students with disabilities (SWD) will be restricted in the use of physical or mechanical restraint

As some districts in CA struggle to expand their bilingual programs under a new state law, more than a dozen school districts and county offices

When CA voters lowered the threshold to pass school bonds nearly two decades ago, they opened the floodgates for $133 billion in taxpayer-funded spending to

For the second year in a row, CA students’ test scores have inched up so slowly that, by some estimates, it could take a generation

Californians in November will weigh billions of dollars’ worth of ballot measures for low-income housing, children’s hospitals and more. But one of the biggest asks

Gov. Jerry Brown’s landmark restructuring of school funding, a redistribution of close to $18 billion in tax money over just 8 years, is helping to