@delislealleges How much of that average is $200K-500k public sector lawyers and doctors driving up the average for all the teachers with more modes debt loads? I take it there's no way to parse that with the available data?

RT @MrOlmos: Protestors are marching through traffic on the 101 fwy

RT @MrOlmos: Thousands of people protesting ICE deportations in Los Angeles. Protesters are marching on the 101 freeway near downtown, sh…

BREAKING: @UofCalifornia approves a tuition hike of $3,402 on top of other planned increases for new nonresident students who'll start school next fall. Story with context, plus insight into UC's budget woes and its huge construction plans.

.@JohnAPerez, a UC regent, on UC antisemitism: "There is a perniciousness of the antisemitism that we've seen on our campuses and in broader society that is not paralleled by anything else today." Regents were discussing Oct.'s UCLA antisemitism report:

CA hate-crimes data: "While anti-Black crimes are notably down, they continue to represent a disproportionate share of hate crimes, and crimes against Jewish and Arab/Muslim Californians have continued to increase."

How to stay calm when Elon Musk says he’s leaving California — and other lessons from business relocations By @levisu

A former student sues @UofCalifornia over its decision to not hire undocumented students. This is potentially setting up a fascinating court battle over whether federal law that says employers cannot hire undocumented workers applies to state agencies.

@laurelmjohnston @jennarpetersonn Also, California lawmakers just love churning out bills.

@laurelmjohnston He has a month to review hundreds of bills that lawmakers passed in the final weeks of August. Some of his signing notices are themed around a topic, which takes more planning. Others require deeper political calculations. Also this by @jennarpetersonn

His veto messages: AND

Another year, another story of mine that @calstate may be unable to afford itself. We're talking layoffs, course cuts and deep pessimism at the nation's largest four-year public university system, home to 450,000+ students.

They taketh and giveth: No indoor bathroom privileges today but the board now publishes its presentation slides that board members get in their board packets. This is new and avoids taking screenshots of charts/tables during the livestream:

California is home to nine of the nation's top 50 universities, including the top two public universities in the U.S. -- UCLA and UC Berkeley. That said, rankings are frought, many researchers say. But students rely on them:

I tie together the last nine months of student advocacy to frame a set of defeats students endured recently: The approval of more UC less-lethal weapons and the governor's veto of a CA bill allowing undocumented students to work at public college campuses.

Link to his veto message: And link to my and @AdamEchelman's story on how the bill came to be: Finally, link on what bill would have done:

"The increases, which will be paid through private sources rather than tuition dollars or state funding, are effective this month and will vary by campus."

Here's my story. It's really fucking good. Read it.