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Despite education funding formula reforms, inequality growing in some wealthy counties
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Declining enrollment’s perverse impact: for LCFF districts, lower enrollment means less state funding. But for basic aid districts, lower enrollment means more revenue per student.berkeley
UC Berkeley professor wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for metal-organic frameworks
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Omar Yaghi shares the prize with Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University in Japan and Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne in Australia.Bay Area
Cal’s quantum connection: Scientists linked to UC Berkeley share Nobel Prize in Physics
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Cal exerts its own force.Bay Area
Gavin Newsom signs law overhauling local zoning to build more housing
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After weeks of waiting, California’s governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California’s biggest metro areas.Housing
Why this wealthy Bay Area suburb is at the center of the next big fight over California housing
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Cities across the state have reason to watch and see how things play out.featured
SFMTA finds new cameras cut speeding 72% at 15 sites, spurring changed driver behavior
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San Francisco’s new speed camera program is the first of its kind in California.health
Bay Area scientist Frederick Ramsdell earns Nobel Prize for immune system research
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Ramsdell won for his groundbreaking discoveries in how the body’s immune system avoids attacking its own healthy tissues.California
Alameda County supervisors approve ethical investment policy, pause rollout for review
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Disagreement about implementation, with the public split over investments with Israel-Gaza ties.Bay Area
