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A Year After Mass Hunger Strike in California Prisons, What’s Changed?
Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …
Bill Ayers | With Teacher Tenure Threatened, Trouble in Every Direction for Public Education
The California teacher tenure case was cast as a group of poor kids suing to get rid of bad teachers. In reality, it's more about education privatization than education …
A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana and the New Jim Crow
California's marijuana industry is directly tied to the racial injustices of the system of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander, a young farmer and two prominent activists talk about how and …
From Governor Moonbeam to “Big Oil Brown”
Southern California marine waters were fracked at least 203 times in the past 20 years.
The Big Money Behind California’s Tenure Lawsuit
A bevy of venture capitalists, charter investors and Obama administration officials invested in the education reform agenda materialize as part of the swirling, multimillion-dollar brew of the Vergara lawsuit..
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LA Judge Objects to School Police Getting Millions Reserved for Struggling Students
Other California school districts are also considering using money earmarked for vulnerable students to supplement school police or security instead.
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California Turns to Private Prison to Address Overcrowding and Medical Care
California has contracted with a private prison corporation to open a 260-bed women's prison. But will a new prison address the overcrowding and medical neglect facing the state's female …
Autistic Teen Entrapped by Cops, Jesse Snodgrass, to Participate in Graduation Ceremony at Chaparral High School
Jesse Snodgrass, the teenage special needs student arrested in an undercover police operation will receive his high school diploma at the Chaparral High School graduation ceremony on Thursday, June …
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Lawsuit: Low-Income Students Assigned Too Much “Work Experience” or Free Time Instead of Classes They Need
Suit against California says "work" periods, other problems, rob kids of instructional time.
Hundreds of California Prisoners in Isolation to Join Class Action Lawsuit
Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the case class action status.