CA FWD NEWS

Summit: Employers want, need bigger role in workforce training
 150 150 Justin Ewers
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For California to develop the workforce necessary to remain globally competitive, employers must be given ways to play a larger role in the state’s workforce training system, the California Economic Summit emphasized in a letter to the task force charged with making community colleges more responsive to the state’s economy.

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VIDEO: California’s education reform on right track says international expert
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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The state’s Local Control Funding Formula initiative is taking the right steps and has the right people on board to make a difference in educating California’s K-12 students.

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How three California open data bills advance the cause of public data
 150 150 Robb Korinke
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Status update on moving the state closer to a strong statewide open data strategy, including three bills under consideration in Legislature

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VIDEO: California schools work to improve local control reform plans
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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California working group of school boards collaborates on how to grapple with the requirements of Local Control Funding Formula education reforms.

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Social impact bonds: A better way to combat blight
 150 150 Marc Joffe
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Richmond, California, after an unsuccessful attempt to deal with blighted properties through eminent domain, is now turning to social impact bonds to rehabilitate these homes.

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San Diego Unified School District develops funding adequacy calculation tool
 150 150 Aaron Davis
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As part of state’s local funding initiative, school district creates tool to calculate “true costs” of educating students based on more realistic expenditures.

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VIDEO: Impact summit harnessed California’s innovation economy to tackle big challenges
 150 150 John Guenther
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Wrap-up of gathering that brought together problem solvers in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to take on the state’s most intractable social and environmental problems.

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Work continues after California budget and election reform victories
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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California earned a rating bump because of its latest budget, while citizen-led reforms won major victory in U.S. Supreme Court.

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