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Gavin Newsom hailed a new charter school transparency law he signed. Why won’t the law prevent charters from failing?
Immigration activists and state agencies continue to put pressure on California’s ICE facilities.
Rather than senior researchers, public finance experts and classroom learning specialists, seven of the governor’s 11 appointees appeared to have been recruited from the charter-industrial complex.
The Brink follows the former White House adviser speaking at rallies and huddling with neo-Nazis across the globe.
Co-published by Fast Company
Why is the starting team of one of the most multicultural cities so vanilla?
The Society of American Business Writers and Editors has recognized Capital & Main for excellence in business journalism.
Evelina Fernández’s poignant new play, set in 1968, focuses on a Boyle Heights mother in a world gone awry.
Why Los Angeles researchers are looking differently at Skid Row.
Co-published by the American Prospect
Diseases don’t respect borders, nor do they care about passports, citizenship or residency.
Developers blame a half-century-old law for slowing development. Studies show there are other factors at work.
Alex Gibney has become the filmic Freud of frauds, a master at dissecting sparkly but flawed personalities.
Financial assurance flaws leave taxpayers potentially liable for massive clean-up costs.
Bay Area seventh grader helps to organize San Francisco student protests as part of Friday’s “Climate Strike.”
Wealthy parents caught gaming the system. Eli Broad spends on privatization. The price of each vote for L.A. school board race.
State investigations raise concerns about human rights abuses in federal detention facilities.
The California Immigrant Policy Center and Capital & Main invite you to a conversation to explore the disparate economic and social impacts of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, from heightened detention and deportation to a proposed “public charge” rule to punish immigrant families.
Co-published by Fast Company
As cities struggle to rein in the short-term rental service, a detente in San Francisco may show the way.
An election reversal for L.A. charter school forces. Oakland teachers’ uneasy victory. Betsy DeVos backs a bill everyone hates.
Co-published by The Guardian
Love and energy aren’t always enough to provide what Allensworth, a historic African-American town, needs most: clean water, accessible to all.
Arsenic and poverty run high in the Central Valley.