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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Huff Chalkboard: July 2014
By JohnBressler
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Capitol Update |
A Word on Education from Senator Huff |
News |
Views |
Welcome to the Huff Chalkboard, a source for news, views and insider updates from Sacramento on California education issues. As a member of the Senate Education Committee, I am pleased to keep you updated on some of the leading stories concerning California’s education system. I will also provide some of my own thoughts on topics and challenges facing education today. Please feel free to send me your feedback and any ideas you have to improve the Huff Chalkboard newsletter. Thank you for your readership.
– Senator Bob Huff
Education Budget News
Stand Up for Kids: Don’t Appeal the Vergara case
The historic Vergara v. California ruling continues to dominate the world of education, not just in California but nationally. I outlined …read more
Source: State Senator Bob Huff
Huff Weekly Capitol Comment
By JohnBressler
Legislative Update for the Week of July 28, 2014
Source: State Senator Bob Huff
OLLI President Presents at National Conference
By strategiccomm@fullerton.edu (strategic communications) Michael Stover, president of Cal State Fullerton’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will deliver a presentation at the Aug. 10-12 Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education conference at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. …read more
Source: CSUF News
CSU Campuses Begin Accepting Applications for Spring
By strategiccomm@fullerton.edu (strategic communications) Cal State Fullerton, along with many other California State University campuses, begin accepting applications tomorrow (Aug. 1) for admission to the spring 2015 term. …read more
Source: CSUF News
Alumni Filmmakers’ Work to Debut on Cable Network
By strategiccomm@fullerton.edu (strategic communications) A short film produced and written by radio-TV-film graduates has been chosen to air on cable network Shorts International — DirectTV channel 573 (SHORTSHD) and AT&T channel 1789 (SHORTSHD) — midnight, Sunday, Aug. 3, with encore presentations throughout the day. …read more
Source: CSUF News
Shared Visions Gala & V–Awards,
Shared Visions Gala & V–Awards, October 2, 2014 at Marshall B. Ketchum University
Supporting Vision Readiness for Children
FULLERTON, CA. — With a focus on supporting vision readiness for all children in Orange County, Marshall B. Ketchum University (MBKU), celebrating its 110th Anniversary, will host its 4th annual Shared Visions Gala & V-Awards, which will be held on Thursday, October 2, 2014, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library located at 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., in Yorba Linda, CA.
The Shared Visions Gala & V–Awards is the signature fundraising event for MBKU of Fullerton, CA, home of the Southern California College of Optometry and the new School of Physician Assistant Studies, with the first class beginning in 2014. Continuing the theme “Sharing Vision—Changing Lives,” the program focus of this year’s Shared Visions Gala & V–Awards is to seek to have all children in Orange County vision ready for school through MBKU’s children’s vision programs, which includes the Eye Force One mobile van and community-outreach events. Continue reading
Fullerton events for Thursday, July 31
By mmclaughlin
It’s the last day of the month, find things to do today and don’t forget to plan for Art Walk tomorrow night. To Do today: 8am-6pm: Have you been to Meineke? Reading our local Business column could get you a discount on car services! 10:30am: Preschool Storytime at the Fullerton Library has stories, fingerplays, puppets, songs, and crafts for […]
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Source: Inside Fullerton
CalChamber, State Agency Question Exposing Employers to Public Shame
By Laura Perdew
Legislation proposing to expose employers whose employees use public assistance services is scheduled to be considered by the Senate fiscal committee early next week.
The California Chamber of Commerce and other employer groups are opposing AB 1792 (Gomez; D-Los Angeles), set for hearing August 4 in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1792 unfairly exposes private sector employers with more than 50 employees who are beneficiaries of Medi-Cal, CalWORKS, or CalFresh to liability, to public protests and media attacks by creating a public list of those employers and the cost to the state of the benefits being provided to their workers.
The bill asks the state Employment Development Department (EDD) and the state Department of Finance (DOF) to develop and publish the list in consultation with the state Department of Health Services and the Department of Social Services.
In its bill analysis, the DOF states, “the benefits of having this data are unclear relative to the potentially significant cost of extracting it.”
Ongoing costs are estimated by the Department of Social Services at $330,000 to $480,000 for additional information technology personnel, in addition to one-time costs of about $165,000 for automation to process and transmit Social Security numbers of aid recipients to EDD.
EDD predicts one-time …read more
Source: Fullerton Chamber of Commerce
Jerry’s latest boondoggle threatens property owners
By Editor By Jon Coupal | You’d think that with all the well deserved bad press heaped on the High Speed Rail debacle that Governor Brown would be a little more circumspect about mega-infrastructure projects which, presumably, he wishes to be the … →
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