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Today, Senator Sharron Grove (R–Bakersfield) proudly announced that Senate Bill 712, also known as Leno’s Law, has passed out of the Senate Transportation Committee with bipartisan support.
The California Senate Transportation Committee has approved Senate Bill 30, introduced by Transportation Chair Dave Cortese, which would ban the resale or transfer of the state’s decommissioned diesel trains, according to California State Senator Dave Cortese.
As Bay Area schools face multimillion dollar budget deficits and the Trump administration has threatened to withhold federal education dollars, a new bill from a South Bay Democrat aims to level the playing field and stabilize school funding in California.
At Mount Pleasant Elementary School in East San Jose, California State Senator Dave Cortese stood alongside educators and community leaders Monday to unveil a bill aimed at correcting decades-old inequities in California’s school funding system.
State Sen. Dave Cortese wants more funding to go to underserved schools by leveling the playing field between wealthy and under-resourced districts, and is proposing a way to make that happen. View the full story at this link.
A new California bill would help close the school funding gap between schools in wealthy areas and those in economically threatened areas.
SACRAMENTO, CA – In a move to address California’s housing crisis, State Senator Dave Cortese has introduced SB 750, a proposal to unlock affordable housing development by leveraging the state’s credit—not its budget.