Parents Speak Up on 'Parent-Trigger' Law
About 60 parents from Los Angeles County barreled up to Sacramento this week, to lend their voices to the debate over California's new "parent-trigger" law. The newly elected Board of Education is considering revisions that will affect whether and how parents can shut down a failing school or turn it over to a private charter company.
Wind Energy Faces Challenges to Growth
For part one of our series on wind energy, utilities are under orders to up the size of their renewable energy portfolios. They're going to need to get a lot more turbines turning, and that's not easy.