In case you missed it:
On her final day as Assembly speaker, Karen Bass gave promotions and pay increases to 20 members of her Democratic caucus staff.
Two large out-of-state oil companies are bankrolling a proposed ballot measure aimed at repealing AB 32.
Jack Chang takes an inside look at the campaign (and campaign headquarters) of gubernatorial hopeful Jerry Brown.
Speaker John A. Pérez says he's "open" to voting yes on Republican Sen. Abel Maldonado's lieutenant governor nomination.
Check out cartoonist Rex Babin's take on Pérez's proposal to ban lawmakers from texting lobbyists on the Assembly floor.
California didn't win this round of the Race to the Top. The Obama administration chose 16 other states as finalists for a piece of the $4.35 billion in federal stimulus funds for education.
Lawmakers sent more budget bills to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today.
Are the spending reductions in the Democrats' budget plan actually cuts?
Student demonstrators gathered at the Capitol to protest budget cuts and tuition increases at California public colleges and universities.
In tomorrow's Bee:
Jim Sanders has more on Karen Bass and her boosting staff pay.
With the country facing two wars, a dwindling economy and health care overhaul, there's much for the three GOP Senate hopefuls to debate. Yet Israel has become a central focus of the race in recent weeks. Rob Hotakainen has the story.
Laurel Rosenhall rounds up the action from today's "Day of Action" protests in support of public education.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner told the Bee Capitol Bureau that he has rethought his decade-old support for Proposition 39, which lowered the vote threshold to pass school bonds. Jack Chang has the story.
The Obama administration's decision to reject California's application for the first round of Race to the Top funds was met with a call for "bolder' education reform from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rob Hotakainen assesses the impact of the decision.
Meanwhile, columnist Dan Walters wonders whether the Legislature was "snookered" into passing Race to the Top reforms.
The Bee's editorial board sees a silver lining in California's rejection: It should bring an end to California's smugness about its education system and what it will take to really reform it.
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