After facing pressure from students protesting police presence in schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District board voted Tuesday night to slash the district’s police department’s budget by $25 million and shift the funds to programs supporting students of color.
Read moreSan Diego approved a $15.1 million Covid-19 emergency rental assistance fund Tuesday to help residents stay in their homes to avoid exacerbating California’s growing homelessness crisis.
Read moreMANHATTAN (CN) — Anticipating a $9 billion shortfall from lost revenue evaporated by the coronavirus shutdown, New York City lawmakers
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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Tuesday that a provision in a state appropriations bill that would have deprived Planned Parenthood of millions of dollars for medical services reimbursements is unconstitutional.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has inked his signature on a $202 billion budget deal that plucks billions from the state’s rainy-day fund, cuts state workers’ pay and freezes business tax breaks to close a record $54 billion budget gap.
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Democratic lawmakers on Friday sent California Governor Gavin Newsom a budget that replaces education and social services funding depleted by the pandemic by pulling billions from the state’s once-healthy reserves, slashing state workers’ pay and halting business tax breaks.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a budget emergency Thursday in order to move $8 billion in rainy-day reserves to stanch the fiscal bleeding caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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For the second time, the European Union’s highest court on Thursday rejected a complaint from France that the European Parliament improperly held a budget vote in Brussels rather than Strasbourg.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday threatened to use “the power of the purse” to ensure local compliance with state mandates to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by emphasizing $2.5 billion of the next budget won’t be parsed out to counties that fail to follow health care guidelines during the pandemic.
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Capping a hectic stretch of budget negotiations shortened and complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a deal with lawmakers Monday to patch the state’s shattered finances.
Read moreLos Angeles County officials said Wednesday the region’s transportation agency will focus on restoring “the public’s confidence in transit,” even as it faces a nearly $2 billion revenue shortfall stemming from a drop in ridership during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreVeering from Governor Gavin Newsom’s strategy, California lawmakers on Monday just hours before deadline approved a budget bill that is less reliant on potential federal pandemic aid and contains reduced education and social programs cuts.
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Lawmakers met with education experts Monday to address the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on state budgets, which has put public schools and students in a precarious position where historic shortfalls and more teacher layoffs are looming.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo repealed New York’s police secrecy law and put their state funding on the line Friday as part of a reform package meant to turn the page on systemic issues of racism and excessive force.
Read moreKneeling on the steps of the state Capitol, dozens of California lawmakers on Tuesday paid tribute to George Floyd and vowed support for pending police and criminal justice reforms.
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Protesters are pushing to “defund the police” after the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their chant has become rallying cry — and a stick for President Trump to use on Democrats as he portrays them as soft on crime.
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The majority of public school districts in the U.S. are focusing their budgets on security to prevent shootings instead of widely needed building repairs, a federal watchdog found in a new report.
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Democratic lawmakers in California struck a budget deal Wednesday, less than two weeks before the June 15 deadline to pass a balanced spending plan.
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Desperate to patch a Covid-19-sized budget hole, the California Legislature is warming to the once-taboo subject of sports betting and has begun handicapping its potential tax windfall.
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A coalition of advocacy groups has come up with a budget for Los Angeles that has plenty of money for parks, social services and libraries — and would pare the LAPD’s budget to a tenth of what has been proposed by the mayor.
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