Compiled by Julie Lefevre and Nick Robinson
Institute of Governmental Studies Library
University of California at Berkeley
California will be spending billions to maintain its prized public colleges and universities. But the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy at Sacramento State says the system may not be in place to do so efficiently.
Improving Facility Planning for California Higher Education
The California Budget project has primers on the Propositions.
Prop. 86; Prop. 87; Prop. 88; Prop. 90
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may have staked his career on promises to fix the local schools. The California State Auditor outlines ongoing management problems regarding performance evaluations and salary-setting procedures.
Los Angeles Unified School District
What would happen if non-voters voted? The Public Policy Institute of California finds that the state’s non-voters are more oriented toward an activist government interested in vigorously helping the poor.
California’s Exclusive Electorate
Since 2002, when the last recession ended, pre-tax corporate profits are up almost 40 percent. Average wages: down .2 percent. This from a new study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center
Where Have All the Wages Gone? Jobs and Wages in 2006
The State Auditor finds problems in California’s handling of federal grants for homeland security.
Global warming has been all over the news in California, thanks to an agreement between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature about requiring emission reductions. The Environment California Research and Policy Center presents six ideas for decreasing America’s emissions.
Rising to the Challenge: Six Steps to Cut Global Warming Pollution in the United States
The argument for school choice has always been that such programs would improve academic performance. But the Public Policy Institute of California examines a program in San Diego and finds that it did not significantly improve test scores, but did increase racial integration.
Does School Choice Work? Effects on Student Integration and Achievement
The Legislative Analyst’s Office has produced a summary of Proposition 84, a $5.4 billion water bond on the November ballot.
New census data show that California’s inflation-adjusted median household income is below the level of 2001, when the most recent recession ended, according to a new report from the California Budget Project.
New Census Data Show Few Gains for California