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The Grinch Who Stole Health Care
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
12.26.2007
After months of exhausting irresolution, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez crafted the Schwarzenegger/Nuñez health-care bill, ABX1 1, which sounds like it requires batteries and a remote control. As it turns out, ABX1 1 requires $14 billion that California doesn’t have.
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Are New Preschool English-learner Standards Really About “The Children”?
Capital Ideas
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
12.19.2007
SACRAMENTO — California may soon be the first state to implement academic standards for preschool English-language learners. The standards are part of the state’s Preschool Learning Foundations initiative that began in 2004. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell is expected to approve them in early 2008. Compliance would then be mandatory for any preschool receiving state funds.
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Glass Ceiling or Glass Elevator?
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
12.4.2007
The University of California at Davis is known for its schools of medicine, law, and winemaking. Now it seems to be swinging into the glass ceiling business. According to recent results from the ongoing Study of Women Business Leaders, headed by Katrina Ellis of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, the situation is rather grim.
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