California’s budget woes hit neediest students the hardest - by John Affeldt
Californians have been hit with so much bad budget news these past three years it’s easy to assume that we’re all suffering more or less equally. Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to our schools. Essentially every fiscal maneuver our policymakers have undertaken to respond to the budget crisis has delivered [...]
New foster care regs getting closer - by Kathryn Baron
If only David Morrow had been born a decade later, his life in foster care and afterward might have turned out differently. When Morrow was a year old, his mother left him and a 3- and 4-year-old brother and sister home alone while she went out. “My understanding is that my mother was really heavily into drugs,” [...]