CDT partner the California League of Conservation Voters released their 2018 legislative scorecard. This is a critical tool for tracking the voting records of state senators and assemblymembers, along with scorecards by our partners California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA), Courage Campaign, California Labor Federation and Planned Parenthood.
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike is over, but what does it mean for the future of education in the city and the state? The strike was a microcosm of what plagues California, a state with great wealth and great disparities, magnified with the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, which devastated the LA school district and public school budgets statewide. While the teachers were successful in getting most of their demands met, we still need to resolve many structural problems to improve public schools.
Earlier this week, the newly elected members of Congress -- including the seven Democrats from California -- were sworn in. As one of the largest cohorts in the incoming class, “they could wield outsize power for first-time members.”
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