March 2001 Volume 14 No. 5 By the Way . . . Community College Facts By the Way . . . Select Committee on Community Colleges Legislation Introduced to Attack Nursing Shortages Employee Legislation Dominates Bill Introduction Deadline Partnership for Excellence Data Shows Progress Towards Accomplishing Goals Senate Budget Subcommittee Hearing Dates Highlights of Chancellor Tom Nussbaum’s Testimony Before Senate Budget Subcommittee #1 LAO’s Analysis of the Governor’s Community College Budget Ask SSC . . . Rumor About COLA Being Cut in Half False Retirement Coalition Seeks to Provide Additional Benefits for STRS Members
February 2001 Volume 14 No. 4 By the Way . . . Governor Davis Appoints Another Member to the Board of Governors By the Way . . . Anti-Tax Payer Group Gives Up Plans to Overturn Proposition 39 Board of Governors Identify Its Priorities Improving Academic Preparation for Higher Education Does California Have a Budget Surplus? Ensuring Student Success Statewide—An Equalization Proposal STRS and PERS 2001 Legislation
February 2001 Volume 14 No. 3 By the Way . . . New Chair of Assembly Budget Subcommittee #2 has Education Experience CPEC Finalizes AB 420 Study Recommendations Legislative Education and Budget Committee Membership By the Way . . . Washington State Makes Teacher Bargaining Much Easier By the Way . . . Counsel Concludes Agency Fee Not Self-Executing Ask SSC . . . Are Religious Objections to Agency Fee Still Valid after the Adoption of SB 1960? When Can a District Hold a 55% Bond Election? Impact of California’s Energy Crisis on Public Education