Bay Area Attorney for Monterrosa family vows to hire private security to monitor returning officer By Katy St. Clair | Bay City News Foundation | September 6, 2023 Vallejo police killed Sean Monterrosa in 2020 during the unrest surrounding George Floyd protests in that city.
Bay Area 2 arrested after shooting at Skyline High By Thomas Peele | EdSource and Exedra Staff | September 5, 2023 No injuries were reported, but students were kept under lockdown several hours as police investigated.
Bay Area BART to increase service frequency By Tony Roca | Bay City News | September 5, 2023 No more half-hour stretches between trains on nights, weekends.
climate change California’s wildfire smoke and climate change: 4 things to know By Alejandro Lazo | CalMatters | September 5, 2023 California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.
Bay Area A California city offered a $75,000 bonus to new cops. These departments are trying to keep up By Anabel Sosa | CalMatters | September 5, 2023 Neighboring cities are struggling to hire police in a tight labor market after the COVID pandemic.
Bay Area Young voter engagement has dipped since 2020. These groups want to change that By Catherine Allen | Bay City News | September 1, 2023 More than 200 organizations in the Bay Area work on improving political engagement.
Arts & Entertainment Free Shakespeare in the Park trims and tidies ‘Cymbeline’ By Hilda Scheib | Bay City News Foundation | September 1, 2023 Something Shakespearean for everyone: mistaken identity, poison, murder, and forbidden love, plus audience participation.
Bay Area Cal, Stanford ditch flailing Pac-12 for Atlantic Coast Conference By Keith Burbank | Bay City News | September 1, 2023 The ACC will now have 18 teams.
Bay Area Study: California’s K-12 funding overhaul worked as designed By John Fensterwald | EdSource | September 1, 2023 Equity-based funding caused big jumps in student performance in the highest-poverty school districts, says UC Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson.
Education Why new UC Berkeley housing law, if approved, won’t clear the way to build dorms yet By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters | August 31, 2023 Even if the proposal passes, its fate lies in the hands of the state Supreme Court.