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Race In Focus
August 14, 2007
Welcome to Race in Focus, an action newsletter of the Applied Research Center.
Rant:
As California's legislators debate the new budget, the State's health clinics,
where many low-income people of color receive care, face funding cuts, staff
cuts and possible closure. The California senate has continuously failed to
approve the now overdue budget that was passed by the legislature last month.
Without passage, clinics have not received funds that provide day-to-day
operation costs and many people of color who rely on public healthcare benefits
programs will be left without care.
In addition the disastrous impacts on clinics, the conservative agenda for
balancing the budget includes cuts for CalWORKs and other public benefits and
welfare programs. Numerous community groups, policy organizations and leaders
are putting pressure on Sacramento policy makers to pass an equitable budget
but policy makers remain stalled.
Read More:
http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=31530
Or:
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/low-income_fami.html
Rave:
High school students and their supporters rallied in front of the Long Beach,
California School District headquarters several weeks ago to demand the right
to a college preparatory education. In the Long Beach school system, where
seven of ten students say they hope to go on to college, only two of every ten
graduates of color complete the requisite course load to matriculate into
college. Groups in Long Beach have responded through a campaign to institute a
standard A-G college preparatory curriculum that would allow all students in
the district the opportunity to graduate with a college ready transcript. The
coalition, headed by Californians for Justice and including other community and
state groups like the Harbor Area and South Bay YWCA, has stepped up on behalf
of young people of color who hope for employment or college but who all too
often are stopped by an education system that deems their aspirations
impossibilities. The Long Beach campaign coincides with legislative efforts at
the state level where Assembly Bill 428 (Carter) is being pushed toward similar
ends.
Read More:
http://www.presstelegram.com/search/ci_6503991
or:
http://caljustice.org/cfj_live/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=1
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