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"content": "\u003cp>by Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-considers-shorter-service-under-prepared-teachers-18730\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under proposals the state’s teacher credentialing agency is set to consider today, school districts would need to show on a case-by-case basis that no fully credentialed teachers are available before they resort to less-qualified educators, and under-prepared teachers could serve a maximum of three years instead of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/teacher-think-stock.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82326\" title=\"teacher think stock\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/teacher-think-stock-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Thinkstock)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Commission on Teacher Credentialing is weighing the changes after expressing concern that under-prepared teachers disproportionately serve students who are living in poverty and learning English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until that changes, we need to tighten up our process a little bit,” Commissioner Kathleen Harris said at a September commission meeting, where possible regulatory changes for under-prepared teachers were first discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California grants emergency permits to credentialed teachers so they may instruct English language learners, deliver a bilingual curriculum, or serve as resource specialists or teacher librarians before they have the required authorization to do so. In order to hire teachers on emergency permits each year, school districts must preemptively declare with the state the number of under-prepared teachers they might need and certify that they will first try to recruit fully credentialed teachers.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said that system has allowed districts to hire cheaper, under-prepared teachers en masse when fully trained teachers are available. California schools \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/teacher-layoffs/teacher-layoffs-032212.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut about 32,000 teachers\u003c/a> between the 2007-08 and 2010-11 school years, the state legislative analyst reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state issued 2,888 emergency permits in 2010-11, according to a commission \u003ca href=\"http://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/agendas/2012-12/2012-12-5B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report [PDF]\u003c/a>. Eleven years earlier, when efforts to reduce class sizes led to a spike in hiring of under-prepared teachers, roughly 35,000 teachers were \u003ca href=\"http://www.ctc.ca.gov/reports/EPW_2000_2001.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employed on emergency permits [PDF]\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has come a long way in ensuring that all students have access to a fully prepared teacher, but we still have loopholes to close, and this is one of them,” said Tara Kini, a senior staff attorney at Public Advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School officials said the current system works and allows schools to staff classes in true emergencies, such as an auto accident that might suddenly put a teacher on medical leave. A teacher on an emergency permit is preferable to a rotation of substitutes, who are limited to serving 30 days in general education and 20 days in special education, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instructional continuity, not only would students not learn, it really would not be safe in the environments that we work in” to rely on substitutes, David Simmons, director of human resources for the Ventura County Office of Education, said at the September meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials also said the public meetings at which governing boards must approve districts’ declarations of need for teachers served as checks on employing under-prepared teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community folks are saying, ‘We want the folks who have the right credentials, the right qualifications’ – they hold us accountable to that,” Teri Burns, senior director of policy and programs at the California School Boards Association, said at the September meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission did not have available the overall number of emergency permits that districts estimate in their declarations of need, but records from some districts showed estimates were greater than actual hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mt. 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It hired 26 teachers on emergency permits for English language learner authorization and 10 for bilingual authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To supporters of the current system, such numbers show that schools are hiring teachers on emergency permits only when necessary. To critics, the numbers underscore the argument for individual emergency permit applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California required individual applications for emergency permits until 1994, when it moved to districtwide declarations of need. It also used to offer more types of emergency permits, which for many years were called credentials despite their lower training requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, California replaced most emergency permits with short-term staff and provisional internship permits. One-year short-term staff permits are for unanticipated staffing needs and are not renewable. Provisional internship permits may be renewed once, but the commission also may decide \u003ca href=\"http://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/agendas/2012-12/2012-12-agenda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today\u003c/a> to eliminate this possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If schools can make do with fewer or no renewals for those permits, Kini said, “why wouldn’t we also apply it to emergency permits?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission’s report shows that, with the exception of teacher librarian credentials that require completion of longer training programs, authorizations to teach English learners, bilingual courses and resource specialist programs can be earned within three years – and they typically are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the current five-year limit on emergency permits is “very appropriate when needed,” Derek Ramage, director of certificated workforce management for the Los Angeles Unified School District, said at the September meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kini disagreed. “As a parent, and I am a parent of a kid in public school, I don’t want my student being taught by one of those (emergency permit) teachers for five years. 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That’s 6,410 fewer arrests – an average of 18 fewer per day – in a city that has the highest crime rate in the state and, this year, is grappling with a 23 percent spike in murders, muggings and other major offenses.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Muni-subway-plan-to-appease-North-Beach-4085866.php\">Muni subway plan to appease North Beach\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Muni’s boss has a plan to silence the vocal opposition in North Beach to the Central Subway construction project – he wants to take a major step toward extending the line from Chinatown into North Beach itself. Right now, the $1.6 billion project is supposed to run from South of Market to Stockton and Washington streets. 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Johnston.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22110579/worlds-second-biggest-tree-further-review-general-grant\">World’s second-biggest tree? On further review, General Grant sequoia is supplanted\u003c/a> (Associated Press)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’s No. 2 biggest tree has been supplanted thanks to the most comprehensive measurements taken of the largest living things on Earth. The new No. 2 is The President, a 54,000-cubic-foot gargantuan not far from the Grant in Sequoia National Park. After 3,240 years, the giant sequoia still is growing wider at a consistent rate, which may be what most surprised the scientists examining how the sequoias and coastal redwoods will be affected by climate change and whether these trees have a role to play in combatting it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_22102226/hewlett-packard-hp-11-billion-autonomy-fiasco-was-preceded-ref-flags\">Hewlett-Packard’s $11 billion Autonomy fiasco was preceded by many red flags\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Long before Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) paid $11 billion for what turned out to be its disastrous purchase of Autonomy, a handful of industry experts were raising red flags about the British software company’s accounting practices and claims of continuous growth. 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California fishermen have capitalized on favorable ocean conditions with a historic three-year haul of market squid, whose cylindrical bodies are most recognizable in appetizer form: sliced, breaded and deep-fried. These small squid make up the state’s largest fishery by both weight and value, having brought in roughly $68.5 million in 2011. Fishermen netted a record-breaking 133,642 tons of the cephalopods during the 2010-11 season, then topped that mark the following year with 134,910 tons, according to the California Department of Fish and Game. This season’s catch was also robust, though it is expected to fall a bit short of those staggering totals.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That’s because the Democrats’ supermajority status will be short-lived, wiped out for most of 2013 because a spate of expected vacancies and special elections will whittle their ranks to below the two-thirds threshold in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_22102306/apple-v-samsung-feuding-tech-giants-return-court\">Apple v. Samsung: feuding tech giants return to court in epic patent battle\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With a $1 billion verdict hanging in the balance, feuding tech titans Apple and Samsung return to federal court this week armed with the latest legal ammunition in their global smartphone and tablet war. 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Apple has asked Koh to permanently ban the sale of more than two dozen Samsung devices in the United States, all of them older versions, as well as add more than $500 million to the $1 billion judgment under provisions for increasing damages for willful patent infringement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Arrest-totals-down-sharply-in-Oakland-4084463.php\">Arrest totals down sharply in Oakland\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Oakland police officers made 44 percent fewer arrests last year than they had just three years before, city records show, a plunge in enforcement that extended from armed robbery cases to drug busts to minor crimes like public drunkenness. That’s 6,410 fewer arrests – an average of 18 fewer per day – in a city that has the highest crime rate in the state and, this year, is grappling with a 23 percent spike in murders, muggings and other major offenses.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Muni-subway-plan-to-appease-North-Beach-4085866.php\">Muni subway plan to appease North Beach\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Muni’s boss has a plan to silence the vocal opposition in North Beach to the Central Subway construction project – he wants to take a major step toward extending the line from Chinatown into North Beach itself. Right now, the $1.6 billion project is supposed to run from South of Market to Stockton and Washington streets. 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They meet the street with an attractive confidence that should make their surroundings a bit more neighborly.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-firm-to-make-S-F-schools-meals-4085806.php\">Oakland firm to make S.F. schools’ meals\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> School lunches in the form of chicken nuggets that were frozen, packaged, shipped from Chicago and then reheated before serving will likely be a thing of the past in San Francisco. Meals will instead feature a freshly made “Fiesta Bowl” with cheese and brown rice, steamed corn, sea salt pita chips and fruit or maybe sesame chicken salad with sesame vinaigrette, sesame sticks, whole wheat dinner roll and fruit. And all that with no artificial ingredients, no high fructose corn syrup, no artificial trans fats – made by a real person in a real chef hat. District officials recently announced that Revolution Foods, an Oakland company, has won the competitive process to provide the meals to the city’s 114 schools starting in January.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mike-Nevin-ex-officer-supervisor-dies-4085645.php\">Mike Nevin, ex-officer, supervisor, dies\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Michael D. “Mike” Nevin, a former San Mateo County supervisor and San Francisco police inspector known for championing the causes of people in need, died Saturday of esophageal cancer. He was 69. Mr. Nevin, who also advocated for better transportation, the compassionate use of medical marijuana and a ban on gun shows, was diagnosed around Labor Day. The disease turned out to be “extremely aggressive,” said his nephew, P.J. Johnston.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22110579/worlds-second-biggest-tree-further-review-general-grant\">World’s second-biggest tree? On further review, General Grant sequoia is supplanted\u003c/a> (Associated Press)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its loss of stature in silence. What once was the world’s No. 2 biggest tree has been supplanted thanks to the most comprehensive measurements taken of the largest living things on Earth. The new No. 2 is The President, a 54,000-cubic-foot gargantuan not far from the Grant in Sequoia National Park. After 3,240 years, the giant sequoia still is growing wider at a consistent rate, which may be what most surprised the scientists examining how the sequoias and coastal redwoods will be affected by climate change and whether these trees have a role to play in combatting it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_22102226/hewlett-packard-hp-11-billion-autonomy-fiasco-was-preceded-ref-flags\">Hewlett-Packard’s $11 billion Autonomy fiasco was preceded by many red flags\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Long before Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) paid $11 billion for what turned out to be its disastrous purchase of Autonomy, a handful of industry experts were raising red flags about the British software company’s accounting practices and claims of continuous growth. 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"content": "\u003cp>It sounds logical enough. If we can buy stock, see medical records and book flights online, we should be able to cast ballots online as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_81220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/SF-Voter-2012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-81220\" title=\"SF Voter 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/SF-Voter-2012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Kitty used a pen to mark her ballot choices in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2012. (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And at least one politicians thinks California should move in that direction. When State Sen. 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I think online voting is something that ought to be discussed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That made me wonder exactly why I am still showing up at the basement of a church in my neighborhood to fill in bubbles with a pen.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, according to Johns Hopkins University computer security expert Avi Rubin, is that there is no way to guarantee an accurate vote count online. \"I'm pretty disappointed to hear that someone is running for secretary of state with this platform,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current secretary of state, Debra Bowen, is a leader among voting officials when it comes to security, said Rubin. But her term expires in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubin served on a task force that evaluated a system the U.S. Defense Department was considering to allow overseas military personnel to cast their ballots online. 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On Monday the Alameda County Transportation Commission formally \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/26/alameda-county-ballot-measure-back-on-track/\">reserved the right to a recount\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on how much the challengers are willing to pay, the election workers will either run the paper ballots back through the machines that tallied them in the first place, or else count them by hand. It's time consuming and expensive, but if there were no ballots to recount, the supporters of the measure would just be out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And no one is suggesting any fraud in that vote. When the stakes are higher, that possibility might well arise. Questions swirled around \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine\">voting machines in the 2004 presidential election\u003c/a>, especially those that didn't generate any kind of paper trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, the potential problems multiply. \"The internet is vulnerable place,\" said Rubin. \"The hacking threat is real if you're talking about the president of the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some other countries have experimented with online voting, their experience doesn't prove the systems are secure -- only that no obvious problem has cropped up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can banking online be safe if voting online isn't?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online banking works because the customer and the bank are watching over each other. If the bank makes a mistake and suddenly subtracts $100,000 from your checking account, you'll notice pretty quickly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, according to Johns Hopkins University computer security expert Avi Rubin, is that there is no way to guarantee an accurate vote count online. \"I'm pretty disappointed to hear that someone is running for secretary of state with this platform,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's current secretary of state, Debra Bowen, is a leader among voting officials when it comes to security, said Rubin. But her term expires in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubin served on a task force that evaluated a system the U.S. Defense Department was considering to allow overseas military personnel to cast their ballots online. The department ended up rejecting the system based on the task force's recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not that computers can't count votes. They obviously can, since machines are used all over the country to scan paper ballots and tally the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, says Rubin, is that no one has come up with a backup system to check the validity of votes, other than paper ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the current election, for example. A measure to fund transportation projects in Alameda County with a sales tax needed 66.67 percent of the vote to pass but only got 66.53 percent. On Monday the Alameda County Transportation Commission formally \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/11/26/alameda-county-ballot-measure-back-on-track/\">reserved the right to a recount\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on how much the challengers are willing to pay, the election workers will either run the paper ballots back through the machines that tallied them in the first place, or else count them by hand. It's time consuming and expensive, but if there were no ballots to recount, the supporters of the measure would just be out of luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And no one is suggesting any fraud in that vote. When the stakes are higher, that possibility might well arise. Questions swirled around \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine\">voting machines in the 2004 presidential election\u003c/a>, especially those that didn't generate any kind of paper trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, the potential problems multiply. \"The internet is vulnerable place,\" said Rubin. \"The hacking threat is real if you're talking about the president of the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some other countries have experimented with online voting, their experience doesn't prove the systems are secure -- only that no obvious problem has cropped up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can banking online be safe if voting online isn't?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online banking works because the customer and the bank are watching over each other. If the bank makes a mistake and suddenly subtracts $100,000 from your checking account, you'll notice pretty quickly. Together, you and the bank will get to the bottom of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Banks do lose money by banking on the internet,\" said Rubin. \"They write that down as the cost of doing business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters, on the other hand, must be able to cast their votes in secret so they can be free of coercion. But that means voters have no way to prove how they voted, so there is no backup system to verify the official results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee acknowledges these problems. He just thinks there must be some way to overcome them. \"I bet you in the 1930s the thought of sending a person to the moon was just unimaginable,\" he said. \" But it happened. And it happened because that thought of putting a person on the moon never died. One not ought to simply throw up their hands and say, 'Let's not not have any further discussion.' I want to have that discussion.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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All of the department’s projects were delayed – except for those addressing drought conditions or safety hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area projects temporarily delayed by the release of bond funds included a water supply study in eastern Alameda County and the Sonoma Land Trust’s 2009 acquisition of the Jenner Headlands, encompassing more than 5,600 acres east of Highway 101 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons we have the most money is because we were one of the departments that received bond funding through one of the last bonds authorized by California voters,” Tufts said. “We are trying to manage this as well as possible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Brown became governor, the state was holding on to $12.9 billion in bond funds, Dresslar said. Since then, the Brown administration has reduced the volume of funds by nearly half to about $7 billion, which in turn has allowed it to reduce the amount of new debt.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, some critics of government spending say the state could do more to reduce its interest payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this money sitting idle, it is not doing anyone any good,” said Kris Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “It is just draining our treasury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Westen, chief executive officer of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the private sector, you don’t order the raw materials and have them sit around the stockyard. You use them within hours,” Westen said. “It seems to me that practice ought to be used with these bonds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say it is difficult to determine how much interest the state is paying on all the bonds, largely because it is too difficult to track the bond cash back to each bond that has been sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest sum of unspent bond proceeds as of June was $2.1 billion, which is overseen by the California Department of Water Resources to provide safe drinking water and protect residents from floods and mudslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tufts, the department’s bond accountability manager, said the department’s bond proceeds accumulated because Schwarzenegger imposed a freeze in December 2008 preventing state agencies from issuing any bonds. While Schwarzenegger lifted the ban six months later, the agency had to renegotiate contracts that had expired, delaying the launch of some projects even further. All of the department’s projects were delayed – except for those addressing drought conditions or safety hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area projects temporarily delayed by the release of bond funds included a water supply study in eastern Alameda County and the Sonoma Land Trust’s 2009 acquisition of the Jenner Headlands, encompassing more than 5,600 acres east of Highway 101 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons we have the most money is because we were one of the departments that received bond funding through one of the last bonds authorized by California voters,” Tufts said. “We are trying to manage this as well as possible. We want to do the proper thing by reviewing all the projects thoroughly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agency with a large balance of unspent bonds is the state Department of Housing and Community Development, which has paid an average of $49 million annually in interest for its unused bond proceeds since the bonds were sold in 2010, according to a recent report by the state auditor’s office. The funds are from two bond measures approved by voters within the past decade to improve housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colin Parent, a spokesman for the California Department of Housing and Community Development, said his agency had not deferred any bond-funded projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a situation where projects were being delayed,” Parent said. “We issued more bonds then was necessary for the purposes of cash flow. The primary purpose was to encourage banks to give contractors construction loans to do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the state has made a push to spend down its bond funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been some real progress made in getting those funds out the door,” Dresslar said. “We are concentrating on getting the money that we already have in hand out to projects.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Joanna Lin, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/californians-commute-times-rank-10th-longest-us-18614\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians rank 10th in the country for having the longest commute times, taking an average of 26.9 minutes to travel to work, recently released census data show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79551\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BART.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-79551\" title=\"BART\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/11/BART.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commuters use public transportation in San Francisco more than in anyplace esle in California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers in the state spent 10.4 minutes more getting to work than did workers in North Dakota, which reported the quickest commutes in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/acs/www/\" target=\"_blank\">2009-11 American Community Survey\u003c/a>. Commuters in Maryland had the longest commute times to work at 31.8 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, Americans spent 23.7 minutes getting to work. More than three-quarters of them drove alone to their jobs, nearly 1 in 10 carpooled and 5 percent took public transportation. Californians were less likely to drive alone – about 73 percent did – and were more likely to carpool (11.4 percent) or ride public transit (5.2 percent).\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians' commuting habits have not changed much in recent years. They drive, carpool and ride public transit at about the same rates they reported in the 2006-8 American Community Survey, and their journeys to work are about the same duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One explanation for persistently high rates of solo drivers, said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA, is free parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you can park free at work, it's an invitation to drive to work alone. And almost everybody who does drive to work has this invitation,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shoup's research led to a 1992 state law that requires employers to offer workers cash in lieu of a parking space. The idea behind the \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/planning/tsaq/cashout/cashout.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cash-out program\u003c/a> is that by allowing employees to cash out their subsidized parking spots and instead walk, bike, take public transit or carpool to work, there would be fewer cars on the road and less emissions in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/single-project.php?row_id=55468\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> Shoup conducted 15 years ago for the state Air Resources Board found that employers who offered cash-out programs saw solo driving to work drop by 17 percent, carpooling increase by 64 percent, walking and biking grow by 33 percent and transit ridership jump by 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cash-out program, however, is not well known and not widely used, Shoup said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California has missed an opportunity to take advantage of this law,\" he said. \"If you offer parking cash-out it would really turn things upside down. Parking, which used to be free, now has an opportunity cost. They could get cash, so now you think, well gee, maybe I should think about transit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women and minorities would be the biggest beneficiaries of cash-out programs because they're less likely to drive alone and more likely to take public transit to work, Shoup said. The 2009-11 American Community Survey showed that about 55 percent of solo drivers to work in California were men and about 45 percent were women. About 44 percent of public transit riders were Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians who refrained from driving to work alone typically had longer commutes. On average, solo drivers spent 25.5 minutes getting to work, the survey showed. Carpoolers took just over half an hour to get to their jobs, and public transit riders commuted nearly 47 minutes to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longest commute times in the state belonged to residents of Contra Costa County, who spent an average of 32.2 minutes traveling to work. In the county, 7 in 10 drove alone, 11.8 percent carpooled and 8.8 percent took public transit. Contra Costa County, along with Riverside County, had the highest proportion of its residents traveling an hour or more to work – 17 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Humboldt County, workers had the quickest commutes, an average of 17 minutes, and 3.3 percent traveled an hour or more. Statewide, fewer than 1 in 10 Californians commuted an hour or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of San Francisco were the least likely in the state to commute by driving alone – 37.5 percent did. One in five reported having no vehicles available to them – a much higher rate than the statewide average of 3.6 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>Kendall Taggart, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/corporations-claim-do-good-need-more-oversight-experts-say-18363\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators need\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>to have more oversight of new types of companies that claim to have a social or environmental mission, legal experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78265\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitol-dome.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-78265\" title=\"capitol dome\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/capitol-dome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 75 companies have registered as \"benefit\" or \"flexible purpose\" corporations since Gov. 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As the name suggests, those corporations have greater flexibility and fewer requirements that ensure they are dedicated to a social or environmental mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics have suggested that flexibility could enable bad actors to mislead the public into thinking they’re supporting a company oriented toward social and environmental goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are going to be bad actors in both camps,\" said Erik Trojian, director of policy at B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies benefit corporations and has advocated for legislation similar to California's across the country. \"I think there’s greater protection in the benefit corporation model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keatinge thinks the benefit corporation model could give investors a false sense of security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My concern is that it seems to have the stamp of approval of the state,\" he said in an interview. \"If somebody is going to make an investment based on state law, the state should do something to make sure they’re in conformity with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trojian thinks concerns about a lack of state regulation are misplaced. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/disabled-inmates-suffer-shift-county-jails-18298\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day in March, a blind man was booked into the San Bernardino County jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77734\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monica-lam-cir.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77734 \" title=\"jail monical lam cir\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monical-lam-cir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno's jail population has shot up by 30 percent, one of the highest increases in the state. (Monical Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A parole violator, he could see only four inches in front of his face. At the West Valley Detention Center, according to his account, deputies assigned him the upper bunk in a cell at the top of a tall staircase. “The deputy laughed at me and told me I could see just fine,” he recounted. Several days later, he missed a step and, flailing for a handrail, tumbled down the steel staircase. When he returned from the hospital in a wheelchair, deputies confiscated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blind prisoner’s account, dictated to an attorney, is one of dozens of complaints cited in a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated the rights of disabled prisoners by not ensuring they would receive adequate care in county jails. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the state’s responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing many thousands of inmates onto the counties in a policy euphemistically known as “realignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blind prisoner’s account, dictated to an attorney, is one of dozens of complaints cited in a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated the rights of disabled prisoners by not ensuring they would receive adequate care in county jails. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the state’s responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing many thousands of inmates onto the counties in a policy euphemistically known as “realignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, facing a federal court mandate to shrink its prison population, enacted the Public Safety Realignment Act last year, flooding county jails with felons, nonviolent offenders and parolees who have been rearrested. Among them are thousands of disabled prisoners with special medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For county governments already reeling from budget cutbacks, the cost of upgrading jails and caring for disabled prisoners could be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crossing my fingers that we can accommodate some of those needs here in our county,” said Undersheriff Dahl Cleek, of Tulare County, where advocates found disability rights violations earlier this year. “But it’s not like we have a built-in hospital inside these jails. Those could bankrupt a county pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, attorneys representing disabled prisoners have fought the state in federal court to improve their treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation alleging that the department housed disabled prisoners in poor conditions and discriminated against them by failing to provide equal access to programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark suit, now known as the Armstrong case after lead plaintiff John Armstrong, ultimately compelled the prison system to improve its facilities and expand services for disabled prisoners. State prisons began keeping track of disabled inmates, giving them vests that identified their disability status and making sure they had access to showers, toilets, medical supplies and prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We underwent tremendous changes,” said Jeanne Woodford, the former corrections department director who helped implement the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of inmates in county jails, lawyers for the disabled gathered dozens of complaints from prisoners and presented them to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, who deemed them evidence of widespread rights violations in county facilities. The cases included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an inmate with 80 percent hearing loss was denied a hearing aid and then disciplined for failing to listen to deputies’ directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Barbara County, a bipolar and suicidal parole violator said he was denied the medication he had received while in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, a blind parole violator was denied a tapping cane, forcing him to rely on inmates and deputies to escort him to the toilet, the showers and meals. He had been permitted a cane in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, a paralyzed parolee reported that deputies replaced her custom wheelchair with a broken one, tying her feet to the footrests to keep them from dragging, then gave her a cell with a door that was not wide enough for a wheelchair. Deputies later returned her personal wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tulare County, an inmate with swollen legs from chronic liver disease reported that deputies had confiscated his cane. In prison, he had been allowed to use a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in Tulare County, a parole violator scheduled for knee replacement surgery was given an upper bunk; he fell 11 times while trying to climb onto his bed, he said. In prison, he had been assigned a lower bunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, a deaf inmate said he could not communicate with medical staff about an ear infection because the jail did not provide a sign language interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodford was asked by the prisoners’ attorneys to review jail polices and the prisoners’ complaints. She said many county jails are now in the same position the state prisons were before the Armstrong case was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are providing accommodations only sporadically, resulting in significant harm to CDCR prisoners and parolees,” Woodford said in a declaration to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Wilken upheld her earlier order that the state is responsible for disabled parole violators and prisoners who are being held in county facilities. She ordered the state to begin emailing jails with information about disabled prisoners coming into their care and describing the past services they received. She also ordered the state to give prisoners grievance forms and investigate complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sept. 10, the state has notified county jails that more than 1,300 of their newly arrived inmates are disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay Grunfeld, the lead attorney for prisoners in the Armstrong case, said the judge’s order would improve conditions in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that the state and the counties are totally separate is just inconsistent with reality,” she said. “I’m very confident that providing information about the particular parolees is going to help everybody improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, has appealed Wilken’s decision. And in June, Gov. 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Among them are thousands of disabled prisoners with special medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For county governments already reeling from budget cutbacks, the cost of upgrading jails and caring for disabled prisoners could be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crossing my fingers that we can accommodate some of those needs here in our county,” said Undersheriff Dahl Cleek, of Tulare County, where advocates found disability rights violations earlier this year. “But it’s not like we have a built-in hospital inside these jails. Those could bankrupt a county pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, attorneys representing disabled prisoners have fought the state in federal court to improve their treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation alleging that the department housed disabled prisoners in poor conditions and discriminated against them by failing to provide equal access to programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark suit, now known as the Armstrong case after lead plaintiff John Armstrong, ultimately compelled the prison system to improve its facilities and expand services for disabled prisoners. State prisons began keeping track of disabled inmates, giving them vests that identified their disability status and making sure they had access to showers, toilets, medical supplies and prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We underwent tremendous changes,” said Jeanne Woodford, the former corrections department director who helped implement the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of inmates in county jails, lawyers for the disabled gathered dozens of complaints from prisoners and presented them to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, who deemed them evidence of widespread rights violations in county facilities. The cases included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an inmate with 80 percent hearing loss was denied a hearing aid and then disciplined for failing to listen to deputies’ directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Barbara County, a bipolar and suicidal parole violator said he was denied the medication he had received while in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, a blind parole violator was denied a tapping cane, forcing him to rely on inmates and deputies to escort him to the toilet, the showers and meals. He had been permitted a cane in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, a paralyzed parolee reported that deputies replaced her custom wheelchair with a broken one, tying her feet to the footrests to keep them from dragging, then gave her a cell with a door that was not wide enough for a wheelchair. 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She said many county jails are now in the same position the state prisons were before the Armstrong case was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are providing accommodations only sporadically, resulting in significant harm to CDCR prisoners and parolees,” Woodford said in a declaration to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Wilken upheld her earlier order that the state is responsible for disabled parole violators and prisoners who are being held in county facilities. She ordered the state to begin emailing jails with information about disabled prisoners coming into their care and describing the past services they received. 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"content": "\u003cp>Katharine Mieszkowski, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/parks/story/park-donors-feel-betrayed-want-money/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77275\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Donors in the South Bay, angry over state mismanagement of park funds, are demanding the return of hundreds of thousands of dollars they gave to keep Northern California’s largest state park operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coe Park Preservation Fund, based in Scotts Valley, donated $279,000 earlier this year to prevent the closure of rugged, 87,000-acre Henry W. Coe State Park, located about 30 miles south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-77276\" title=\"Henry Coe State Park\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/Henry-Coe-State-Park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Coe State Park (Creative Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to ask for the return of the $279,000 back to the Coe Park Preservation Fund,” said Dan McCranie, treasurer of the group’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the money is returned, the group plans to offer refunds to its donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, says it has no obligation to refund the money. “As it stands, there is no legal mechanism to actually return the money,” said Richard Stapler, spokesman for the state Natural Resources Agency, which oversees the California Department of Parks and Recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an email, Stapler wrote that the agency does not rule out the possibility of a compromise. “We are very eager to speak with the Coe folks,” he said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 25, Gov. 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About $20 million was in the state Parks and Recreation Fund, which comes mainly from fees paid by park goers. Another $34 million was found in a fund for off-road vehicles and can only be spent on parks that allow them. The Sacramento Bee reported on the funds in July, and three of the department’s top officials resigned or were fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the surplus came to light, the Coe Park Preservation Fund had already given the department its $279,000. The May donation was the first installment under a three-year agreement [PDF] to help staff the park. In addition to obtaining a refund, the donors want to dissolve their agreement with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That money was given to the park for a specific purpose,” said board President Ann Briggs. “The law that has just been passed supersedes that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement between the state and the Coe donors says it can be terminated by either party with 30 days notice, except when money for the year has already been donated. “Once funds are transferred to State Parks, this Agreement may not be terminated by either Party for any reason through Fiscal Year 2012/2013,” the agreement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We negotiated with the DPR (Department of Parks and Recreation) under the assumption that the only chance we had to keep Henry Coe open was to provide private donations,” said McCranie, a longtime executive in the semiconductor industry and one of the major donors to the Coe Park Preservation Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the group gets its money back, he plans to keep his share in the fund to help maintain the park and pay for interpretive programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation signed by Brown last week appropriates $10 million from the surplus to keep at-risk parks open over the next two years. Another $10 million would be spent on the parks only to match donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That plan did not mollify the Coe Park Preservation Fund, which voted unanimously last month to rescind its deal with the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This $20 million came from visitors to our state parks,” McCranie said. “Why then are they going to take that $10 million, hold it in reserve and say that they’ll only allocate it to the parks when they receive matching funds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stapler, the Natural Resources Agency spokesman, estimated that $3 million to $5 million that would be matched has already been raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators argue that despite the newly discovered surplus, parks still need the public’s donations. “The discovery of hidden funds does not change the fact that California still needs additional resources to prevent our beautiful parks from closing,” Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-San Fernando Valley, who sponsored AB 1478.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McCranie expressed skepticism that donors will want to continue funding state parks. “It was a nightmare getting people to invest, because everyone kept saying: ‘We don’t want to bail out the state,’ ” he said. “Now, with this scandal, I just cannot imagine anyone is going to want to be freely giving funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. 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