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Ryan Wimsatt joins his hands to thank his parents during the graduation ceremony at Stanford University in Palo on June 13, 2021.Over the past decade, California cities, counties, and the state government have been changing the job descriptions for thousands of employees — either by removing the requirement for a high school, college, or graduate-level degree or by detailing alternative ways that candidates can gain the same skills. Studies show these changes can benefit workers and employers.
The governor’s order came after at least 15 states had already enacted similar or more aggressive changes to their hiring practices., which would have put California on par with many other states by making education requirements the exception, rather than the norm, for state employees. “There is no reason for California to have an arbitrary barrier to access these good-paying jobs that benefit our state,” she said.
“You don’t need any legislation to push the private sector to do it, but you do need legislation to allow the public sector to do it,” Pollak said. The Service Employees International Union, SEIU, is concerned that some employers may change education requirements in order to lower wages, said Sandra Barreiro, a governmental relations advocate for SEIU. While Barreiro didn’t endorse Bauer-Kahan’s bill, the local service workers union that represents public sector employees, SEIU Local 1000, did.
This year, we've got a big new change: Since the beginning, the contest has been open for students in grades five through 12. But each year, we've heard from elementary teachers asking, what about my younger kids?So if you teach or work with fourth graders – please consider podcasting with your students and entering our contest!As in the past, entries must be submitted by a teacher, educator, or mentor who is 18 years or older.
In the absence of more consistent messaging from campus administrators, students like Xu said they felt a need to step in to inform other students about their rights. Gov. Gavin Newsom had already signed Senate Bill 24 in 2019. The law requires all of the state’s 33 public universities to provide access to abortion pills to students who want them. The law took effect in 2023.a year after it was implemented. The schools may have followed the letter of the law, but SB 24’s co-author, former state senator Connie Leyva, told LAist that implementation has been “falling short.
Until recently, nearly half of California State University campus clinics did not have any information about medication abortion on their clinic websites, nor did they list it as a service offered. Since LAist published its investigation, Cal State Long Beach, CSU Channel Islands, Sacramento State and Sonoma State updated their student health center websites. Cal State San Bernardino updated its website after LAist reached out in its initial reporting.
URGE doesn’t have chapters at every campus, and Chinnapong said progress depended on each administration. Some, like Cal Poly Humboldt, are open to student opinions, they said, while many are not.Reflecting on the teach-in at UCLA, Xu said recently that she wanted to help “educate students on what Senate Bill 24 was, and what we were hoping to see in terms of Senate Bill 24's implementation.”
However, during a visit to the public lobbies of UCLA’s student health center, the Ashe Center, LAist did not see any information posted about medication abortion and staff said they did not have any to hand out. But Los Angeles officials on Tuesday said that while some progress had been made in responding to the two storms, dangers remained from land that had been saturated by the three-day deluge.
The rainfall and subsequent damage since Sunday was due in large part to the storm system's slow movement.Sunday night, 16 residents were evacuated from nine Studio City homes after a mudslide damaged two structures on Lockridge Road. And L.A. firefighters evacuated people from at least three homes affected by debris flows on West Boris Drive in Tarzana. A landslide on Beverly Crest damaged at least six homes, forcing the evacuation of 15 people.
"This has truly been a historic storm for Los Angeles," Ariel Cohen, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said Tuesday. He added that it was the third wettest two-day stretch for the city since they started keeping records back in the 1870s. “People see a lot of water in a channel that they see that's normally dry and they go, ‘Oh my goodness, there's a lot of water,’” he said. “That's just the channel operating in the way it was designed.”
It's a notion that holds doubly true for Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, and every swimming area in Long Beach, as San Gabriel Mountains: Evacuation warnings are in effect for areas near the Bobcat Fire and Lake Fire burn scars.Culver City: Evacuation warning in effect through 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday for areas of Culver City’s Upper Crest area due to potential mud or debris flows. The city is asking people who live above, below, or adjacent to a hillside in or below the Upper Crest neighborhood to take extra precautions.
If you’re in a vehicle with a fallen power line on it, stay in the vehicle and remain calm until help arrives. It is OK to use your cellphone to call 911. If you must leave the vehicle, remember to exit away from downed power lines and exit by jumping from the vehicle and landing with both feet together. You must not touch the vehicle and the ground at the same time. Then proceed away from the vehicle by shuffling and not picking up your feet until you are several yards away.
Leave the doors of your refrigerator and freezer closed to keep food as fresh as possible. Place blocks of ice inside to help keep food cold. Check food carefully for signs of spoilage. residential units to have heating systems that can keep indoor temperatures at a minimum of 70 degrees. That means every dwelling unit and guest room offered for rent or lease should offer heating equipment, usually central air conditioning or a wall heater.
The rover Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021, and has since been using a special drill to gather and pack away samples from the Jezero crater into specially sealed tubes. Officials first announced that more than 5 million gallons of untreated sewage had leaked into the Dominguez Channel, the Compton Creek, and in the city of Commerce. But on Tuesday, Bryan Langpap, the public information officer for the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, told LAist the spill may actually have been 8 million gallons.
“We want to make sure that we get at least two straight days where the bacteria levels are down to where they need to be to meet state standards,” Langpap said. “Even when there's not a sewage spill, there's just so much urban contamination that gets kind of flushed down to the ocean, and it raises the bacteria levels and makes it not safe for swimming or surfing,” Langpap said.Faced with a huge budget deficit, legislators are on warning not to expect bills with a high price tag to pass. But that’s not always the goal of introducing bills.
Still, party leaders and committee chairpersons might be hard-pressed to block bill introductions. That’s because they understand members must answer to outside forces, which include constituents they’re supposed to represent, voters“A newly introduced bill is a bright, shiny object that gets lots of attention and gets people excited,” said Dan Schnur, a politics professor at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine University.
“There’s a whole architecture of analysts and lawyers that look at every single piece of legislation — so it’s a unique opportunity to participate in the discussion,” said Hertzberg, who served as Assembly speaker from 2000 to 2002 and Senate majority leader from 2019 to 2022. “It’s not just getting rid of bad bills,” he said. “It’s making sure good bills go through, and making sure that good bills get the proper attention necessary.”The Office of Legislative Counsel, which drafts and reviews bill language, has attorney-client privilege with each lawmaker. So, according to“We’re very good … of introducing bills to solve all of the state’s problems,” said the Salinas Democrat.
The package does not include direct cash payments to those harmed by slavery — the most controversial aspect of the reparations discussion in California— but instead takes a more comprehensive approach to dismantling the legacy of systemic racism, the caucus said. The bills cover civil rights, criminal justice, education and health, and one would request a formal apology for slavery from the governor and Legislature.
To some — including legislators — that’s still too many to be properly vetted, especially as they change through the process.