How California’s ban on bilingual education still hurts schools
Students, some of whom speak languages other than Spanish or English at home, at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. 29, 2024. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local It has...
View ArticleNew Sen. Adam Schiff vows to defend democracy
Sen. Adam Schiff is ceremonially sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris with his wife Eve Schiff in the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Chip...
View ArticleCalifornia confronts opioid crisis at work
Robert Williams (left), business manager and secretary-treasurer, and James Boster (right), director of mental health and addiction, with District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and...
View ArticleWeber is open to fixing slow California election results
An election worker processes ballots at the Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections office on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters California’s 2024 election will...
View ArticleJerry Brown speaks on the American Dream, Trump and more
Former Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during an event hosted by the Public Policy Institute of California at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Sacramento on Dec. 12, 2024. Photo by Tia Gemmell Media, courtesy of...
View ArticleAfter five weeks, California knows its election results. Dive in
A voter fills out their ballot at a voting center in the Firebaugh Senior Center on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local The holidays may be coming up fast (have you...
View ArticleProp. 36 could lead to more deaths in CA jails
DeAna Serna displays poster boards of loved ones who died in jail at an event hosted by the Board of State and Community Corrections’ in-custody death review division in Escondido on Dec. 14, 2024....
View ArticleCalifornia’s attorney general leads a ‘know your rights’ workshop for immigrants
Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at the CalMatters Ideas Festival at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacramento on June 6, 2024. Photo by Cristian Gonzalez for CalMatters From CalMatters’ Wendy Fry: As...
View ArticleNewsom declares bird flu emergency in California
Raul Cedillo milks Holstein cows at Frank Konyn Dairy Inc. in Escondido on April 16, 2020. Photo by Ariana Drehsler, AFP via Getty Images For nearly three years, bird flu has devastated poultry farms...
View ArticleCA nurses demand changes to addiction recovery program
Former nurse Bobbie Sage reviews her case files in the lobby of her aesthetics studio in Pleasanton on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters Scheduling note: WhatMatters is taking a...
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