As both the week and month draw to a close, here at California Policy Center we are excited to bring you all the latest news about the perilous state of the Golden State!
On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the formation of the Skid Row Clean Team, in an effort to combat the typhus outbreak and the growing number of rats in the city. The program, which relies on the employment of two dozen homeless, pays employees $15/hour to pick up trash in the 54-block area of the city.
Meanwhile, a compromise was reached on Wednesday night in Sacramento between charter advocates and the powerful state teachers unions. According to the LA Times, the deal gives public school districts more authority to reject petitions for new public charter campuses, phases in stricter credentialing requirements for public charter school teachers, and places a two-year moratorium on new virtual charter schools.
Rising pension costs continue to drive up the total cost of education in California. Despite this, teachers unions statewide are doubling down and pushing for unionized public charter schools that contribute to CalSTRS. One of the biggest reasons has to do with funding. This week, CPC fellow Edward Ring examines the cost of CalSTRS to both taxpayers and teachers. Click here to read his analysis.
One of the oft repeated talking points is that there is a teacher shortage nationwide. It is used by the teachers unions during strikes and repeated by pundits in the media. However, when CPC contributor Larry Sand crunched the numbers, the data told a very different story. Click here to read the full article.
California needs your help! Over the next three weeks, we are giving you the opportunity of a lifetime - a chance to pick the Grand Prize Winner of the Prop 65 Contest! Remember Prop 65, the state-required cancer warning so widespread that Californians know it’s best to ignore them? Starting Sunday, our voting process will commence. The first week will seek ten winners, followed by five winners the second week, and the Grand Prize winner during Week 3. For more information, and to exercise your voting rights, click here. (We will not be ballot harvesting.)
Upcoming Events:
Justice Neil Gorsuch at the Reagan Library The Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute will be hosting Associate Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Tickets to this event are $65 per person and includes a buffet dinner in the Air Force One Pavilion following the program. For more information, and to register for the event, click here.
Book talk with General Mattis Former Defense Secretary and four-star Marine General James Mattis will be visiting the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum to talk about his memoir, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, on Friday, September 13, 2019. Gen. Mattis will have a conversation with Nixon Foundation President and CEO Hugh Hewitt about his incredible career, from leading troops into battle in three wars to commanding American forces across the Middle East as head of CENTCOM. For more information and to register for the event, click here.
Constitution Day Celebration The Claremont Institute will be hosting a series of panels on September 14, 2019 in Orange, California to celebrate Constitution Day with Dr. John C. Eastman and the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. To purchase tickets for the event, click here.
As always, if you’d like to join our movement to save California, we invite you to support us. Click here to donate to CPC.
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