George Miller at Stanford: Become a ‘disrupter’ - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
In his nearly 40 years representing Northern California voters from the East Bay, Congressman George Miller had turned down all invitations to speak at commencements – until Sunday, when Miller, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, came down from The Hill to offer a deal to graduates of Stanford University’s [...]
Legislature should follow gutsy districts challenging seniority-based layoffs - by Arun Ramanathan
When the Governor waved his May Revise wand, a lot people who were holding their breath expecting a “doomsday budget” exhaled in relief and breathed in the magic budget dust. With a sudden influx in revenue, Jerry Brown lopped $6.5 billion off the budget deficit and convinced Californians that education would be spared. Of course, school districts and communities have been down this yellow brick road before, only to find that the great and powerful Oz doesn’t really have the power to fix the budget. In [...]