The California Budget and Policy Center has released its latest child care and preschool fact sheet (here) with the headline that, adjusted for inflation, state spending on early care and education (ECE) programs are “near pre-recession levels with [a] boost from one time funding”. The fact sheet goes on to describe the history of the […]

August 31st represents the end of the legislative session, with bills that have not passed through both Houses of the State legislature either dead or moving on to the Governor’s desk for signature, veto, or to become law without signature. As you may recall from Schoolhouse Rock, it’s not easy for a bill to become […]