Choosing Democracy

“The Governor continues to attempt to balance the budget on the backs of our students and our schools. Suspending Proposition 98 is a shorts...

Jonathan Alter Joins the Teacher-Scapegoating Chorus: I'm Calling BS Dan Brown. The Huffington Post It is convenient to blame teachers f...

California: A Dream Decimated By Harold Meyerson Washington Post Wednesday, July 1, 2009 In Sacramento, they can hear the chimes at midnight...

Schwarzenegger Threatens to Shut Down the State By Willie L. Pelote, Sr. Assistant Director ASFCME With California just a few days away from...

California State University (CSU) is facing a $583.8 million dollar budget cut for the 2009-10 fiscal year. CSU faculty are being asked to t...

At 7:30 PM. Today the California Legislature passed a budget which would resolve the immediate crisis. Governor Schwarzenegger will veto th...

Equalizing Opportunity Dramatic Differences in Children’s Home Life and Health Mean That Schools Can’t Do It Alone By Richard Rothstein Pu...

Assembly Passes Majority Vote Budget Bills By Marty D. Omoto Director/Organizer California Disability Community Action Network The Assembly ...

The Forum Section of the Sacramento Bee for June 28,2009, includes extensive discussions of two of the major proposals for constitutional re...

A Global Recovery for a Global Recession by JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ This article appeared in the July 13, 2009 edition of The Nation. June 24, 20...

Veteran Latino-rights advocate charged with voter fraud 7:09 AM | June 25, 2009 Felony charges have been filed and an arrest warrant issued ...

California's voters – both those who voted and especially those who did not – made their voices heard in the May 19 special election on ...

ESEA is reauthorized next year. If Congressman Grijalva's bill requiring that bilingual education be offered as an option in any state ...

HURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009 Open letter of support to the demonstrators in Iran! This morning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanded an end to the massi...

A group of CEO's and Bay Area business leaders are directing and funding an effort to call a California Constitutional Convention to wr...

Remember all that change Americans voted for in November? Well, there's been a change in the plans for change. The detour has come court...

Nurses, Progressive Dems Seek Stepped Up Action for Real, "Robust" Healthcare Reform Single-Payer, Medicare for All, as Best Solut...

14 states now have double-digit unemployment New data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that five more states -- Flor...

The current California budget crisis was created by the collapse of the U.S. economy. The economic collapse was caused by the greed of bank...

Rants from the Right ! Right wing lunacy. In California we are again experiencing a budget crisis. The basic problem is that our constituti...