California legislators offer bills on bilingual education, an obligation of jurors

State legislators were busy considering new bills that deal with issues, including decreasing bilingual education, jury and rotting deputies. Let’s dive into:

• Bilingual education: California Continues to fall out To provide quality education to both limited English speakers and students who want to know another language. Bilingual education helps students increase test results, increase the degree of completion and prepare students for college, according to research. One suggestion is aiming Throw a lifestyle to bilingual education By providing school districts $ 5 million over the next three years To help them buy or create instructions for bilingual programs. Defenders say it doesn’t go far enough. Especially since they claim that $ 10 million in grant’s grants to help schools are expanding dual language programs has dried up. Read more by Calmatters’ Tara Garcia MattsonS

• The jury duty: Assembly Bill Esaili not ashamed Opposing his colleagues GOP legislatorsS In the last disagreement, the republican of the crown Give the lone vote ‘no’ During a hearing of a Bill Committee that will permanently allow district probation officers to Get out of the liability of the jurors For criminal cases. The author of the bill, the republican dispute Juan Alanis Modesto says that the duty of the jurors is pulling employees from his work and that there is a probation officer for the jurors can “create a perception of bias.” But Essayli claims that the release would lead to a slippery slope: “Tomorrow, these are judicial officials, and then they will be prosecutors and public defenders and judges and probably politicians,” Esayli said during the hearing. Read more by Calmatters’ Ryan SabalowS

Two weeks after hold a Closed door, personal meeting With the heads of state farms, the California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara submitted a request from the largest insurer in the state yes Increase insurance premiums for housing owners on average by 22%writes Calmatters’ LevagsS

Lara initially Download the request In February, citing the need for more information. But he approved the increase in the “emergency” on Friday, provided that:

• The State Farm has stopped the cancellation of policies by the end of this year;
• The state farm’s mother company provides financial assistance by providing or loaning to the insurer $ 500 million;
• The State Farm proves that it needs an increase in the public hearing rate on April 8.

If the judge determines that the increase is justified, the tariffs will also increase on June 1 for tenants by 15% on average and the owners of rent by 38%. These intermediate increases will come after the average 20% increase in the state farm of the premium, applied last year.

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President Donald Trump’s administration plans to change the provisions of the Clean Water Act again, which can leave huge sections of California waterways, unprotected by developers and farmersS

Calm Alastair Bland He explains that the administration wants to be aligned with the US Supreme Court’s decision in 2023 and to change the definition of protected wetlands such as water bodies they have “a continuous surface connection“For constant navigation waters. Trump made the same change in 2017. During his first term, describing these wetlands as “Puddles and ditchesS “The administration of President Joe Biden annulled the decision in 2022.

Approximately 80% of all linear miles of streams and rivers in California are short -lived or periodic. In the second term of Trump, these seasonal streams, ponds and pools may be at risk. Vernal Pools, for example – which are small reservoirs that are filled in spring and winter – maintain rare wild animals and plants. But approximately 90% of the habitat of the state pools is lost, according to state biologists.

However, state legislators withdraw: a Bill introduced in February It will create, among other things, create additional protection for waters and wetlands.

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