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A ballot initiative that would require a personal finance class in high school circumvents the usual process for curriculum changes. cal.news/4b0MG6V

✍️ Carolyn Jones

With rents high, home prices higher and an increasing number of state residents just struggling to get by or pining for Reno, what should California do to address its housing crisis? cal.news/44piYpI

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📸 Rahul Lal

Some programs helping foster kids and families in crisis could lose all funding as lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom address budget shortfall. cal.news/3WrLmpg

✍️ WendyFry

ICYMI: California Assembly Republicans CA Senate Republicans leaders want to take #CalGrants from student protesters if they were violent.

Alexei Koseff of CalMatters with more details:
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Today's CalMatters newsletter by Lynn La
-- Alexei Koseff on #caleg GOP on protests
-- Sergio Olmos on the ground at UCLA
-- Ben Christopher on #HousingCrisis survey Chris Elmendorf
-- Carolyn Jones on financial literacy
-- WendyFry on Senator Caroline Menjivar budget
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CalMatters’ Sergio Olmos (Sergio Olmos) documented two dramatic days at UCLA that culminated in the university dismantling a pro-Palestine encampment. Here’s a look at what he saw. cal.news/44oBjTO

As campus tensions escalate over student encampments to protest the war in Gaza, Republican leaders in the CA Legislature are calling for the state to use its upcoming budget process to punish demonstrators who they say have gone too far. cal.news/4a5o4Zs

📝 Alexei Koseff

NEW: #CALeg Republican leaders Brian W. Jones James Gallagher call for taking financial aid from student protesters if they were violent and cutting money from campuses that didn't respond adequately.

Alexei Koseff of CalMatters with the run-down:
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Last spring, Asm. Isaac Bryan (Isaac G. Bryan) received a letter calling for him to be lynched because of a bill he introduced to change how ballot measures are presented to voters. It’s not the only time he’s been subjected to threats. cal.news/4dldGQ2

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Commentary:

Some local officials may simply ignore the results of UCLA’s annual quality-of-life survey of Los Angeles, which reported the lowest score in its nine years. cal.news/3WoxFYb

📝 Jim Newton

“The Joshua tree is an iconic symbol of the high desert,” Assemblymember Juan Carrillo told CalMatters. “We have to save that. We have to preserve it.” At the same time, he knows that efforts to protect the trees will make it harder to build housing: cal.news/3wnJMKc

📝 Ryan Sabalow

California officials won’t say why it would cost 'billions' to protect prison workers from heat calmatters.org/politics/capit…

Before dawn today, police demolished a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA — using flash bangs, firing projectiles at protesters and arresting those who refused to leave. Read Sergio Olmos (Sergio Olmos)’s thread for a timeline:

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New column: Lagging revenue continues to drive California budget deficit as deadline nears calmatters.org/commentary/202…

Update: After a violent attack on protesters went unchecked by security and law enforcement pre-dawn Wednesday, last night police returned using flash bangs and firing munitions into crowds of those same protesters in an effort to demolish the encampment.
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ICYMI: State officials delayed a rule to protect #California workers from indoor heat due to costs at prisons.

But CA Corrections and Finance rejected public records requests filed by Jeanne Kuang of CalMatters
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