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State boosts scholarship program Teen suspect’s hearings stay open to public, media
By Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters California cemented its status among the most affordable states to earn a bachelor’s degree after lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom fulfilled their promise to expand the state’s Middle Class Scholarship program by another $227 million in this year’s budget deal. That overhauled scholarship, which debuted last year, is now a $859 million juggernaut. It’s also a growing slice of the state’s financial aid pie: Between 2016 and 2022, California lawmakers poured roughly $1.4 billion more into grants and scholarships, bringing the state’s total contribution to around $3.5 billion. Using new data that examines how the Middle Class Scholarship helped students in its first year, a CalMatters analysis shows that the grant worked largely as intended, sending more money to students of higher-income families. But the program has frustrated some advocacy groups, who want the state to spend more on lower-income students, especially those who are ineligible for existing state financial aid. For lawmakers grappling with a shaky state financial outlook while also attempting to rein in the cost of
By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
Students from families with higher incomes received more money than those from lower incomes by design. That’s because students from wealthier families receive less financial
WOODLAND — Juvenile court proceedings for a Woodland teen accused of causing a fatal three-car collision will remain open to the public and the media, a Yolo Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Janene Beronio struck down a courtroom closure motion from the 13-year-old defendant’s attorney, Martina Avalos, who contended that ongoing news coverage of the case brings undue prejudice upon her client. The teen faces two counts each of murder and gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with the April 8 crash that killed Woodland resident Tina Vital, 43, and her 4-year-old granddaughter Adalina Perez, and injured eight other people. Authorities say the boy stole the family car that he drove at high speeds through town, striking two other vehicles traveling through the intersection of Court and College streets. The wreckage caught fire after the impact, engulfing Vital’s car. Although most juvenile court matters are closed-door proceedings,
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Students walk near Meiklejohn Hall at Cal State East Bay in 2020. college, this is a tough needle to thread. The scholarship itself had growing pains in its first year. Many students who expected aid at the start of the 2022-23 academic year received their money months later as campuses and the state agency running the program rushed to jump-start a complicated program in a short amount of time.
Here’s the latest information and what you need to know about financial aid in California.
Who and how much? Because of the Middle Class Scholarship, 302,000 students received an average of $1,970 more dollars toward their education in the 2022-23 academic year, according to data
CalMatters obtained from the state’s financial aid agency, the California Student Aid Commission.
Davis dogs get a new place to hang City brings in $300K
grant for arts, culture
By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer If there’s anything Davis loves as much as its bikes, it’s its dogs. With boundless love and affection for these four-legged Davisites, it’s only fitting that a Dogtopia (a franchise specializing in doggy daycare) is due to open later this month in a community that has fully embraced the ruff life. Cindy Hespe hails from the Black Hills of South Dakota – and pronounces a flawless “Don’t ya know?” – and ended up in California for work years ago. She met her husband, Wayne Wiebe, in Sacramento in that time and the couple moved to Idaho for 12 years before returning to Davis in
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Davis Dogtopia owners Cindy Hespe and Wine Wiebe identified a need for doggy daycare in Davis. 2013. Lifelong dog-lovers, the duo identified a need for doggy daycare in Davis after seeing — as Hespe put it — half of Davis at doggy
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daycares in Sacramento. This sparked countless hours of research, and when it was all said and
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The city of Davis announced that the Arts and Cultural Affairs program is the recipient of a $300,000 grant from the California Arts Council’s California Creative Corps program, administered through the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture. The grant will focus on supporting the community engagement component of the Hate-Free Together campaign. The 2021 State Budget included a $60 million one-time allocation for the California Arts Council to implement a threeyear pilot program called
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the California Creative Corps. The Creative Corps program hopes to demonstrate how artists from varying disciplines can be instrumental in the development and implementation of critical campaigns that help to address pressing issues in the community. Applicants of the grant were evaluated on criteria such as diversity, equity, inclusion and access, program design, community impact and organizational readiness.
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