This school area stands in front of Trump’s immigration repression

So Feel safe and access to vital resourcesCarolyn Jones reports to Calmatters.

Serviceing more than 500,000 students, the Los Angeles University Quarter is the second largest school area in the country. Within days of Trump’s re -election in November, her school passed a resolution Promising to protect students from applying immigration to campuses.

The area also has a hot line for families seeking immigration help; Provides free legal assistance through partnerships with local non -profit organizations; And there is a virtual academy for students who are at home due to fears of deportation.

Against the backdrop of the decline in enrollments and attendance from the increased raids of immigration, the area organizes volunteers to help accompany children to and from a school for parents who are afraid to leave their homes.

These efforts were led by Chief Alberto Carvalho, a former immigrant with no law. His outright protection for the rights of immigrants has attracted the attention of some teachers and defenders who say it is important for school leaders to stand up to their students.

• CarvalhoOn a recent immigration panel: “This is my insurmountable moral responsibility, as well as professional responsibility, to defend all children. On the sidewalks of America, we do not have reserved for immigrants and others for all others. They all go on the same sidewalk of hope and opportunity.”

At the state level, governor Gavin Newo signed in law last week two measures aimed at protecting students from immigrants: one prohibits school staff from Sharing information about students to immigration authorities without a court order and the other requires schools to notify families When immigration officials are on campusS

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California is home to More than 300 data centersand two bills regulating these power supply facilities Now wait for the governor’s decisionKalri’s Khari Johnson writes.

Both measures have been significantly changed after their introduction: one will require operators of the data center to disclose how much water evaluates that their centers will consume when applying or renewing a business license or permit.

Data centers can use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water a day as part of their cooling systems, and many facilities are located in the more dry areas of the state. But an amendment made to the bill will require operators to share their water data with water suppliers – not by civil servants.

Another bill initially aims to ensure that utility companies will not leave customers financially to the energy infrastructure hook they build in power centers. Now, however, the measure only allows state regulators to assess whether the data centers are transferred to the costs to the fees paid – a power that the State Commission for Utilities is already available.

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Millions of dollars have been canceled federal subsidies have left California researchers and teachers in the humanities For new funding – the threat of various projects focused on local history, the experience of immigrants, border tests and more.

Like Lila Smmedel-Permanna from Calmatters’ College journalism network He explains that in April, the National Humanities Fund canceled over $ 10.2 million for projects in California. The agency informed the campuses that “rearrange the distribution of its financing … in support of the president’s agenda.”

Calmatters found that of all 29 California campaigns that had current NEH -funded projects, each campus, but one reduced its funding. The canceled grants ranged from about $ 23,000 to more than $ 500,000, although the University of Southern California lost over $ 1.2 million total canceled projects.

Cal State San Bernardino has lost nearly $ 150,000 in three years of funding for its “Internal Empire Project”, which would provide a teaching framework that connects local history to a wider US history. The project is managed by the historian and Professor Michel Lorimer, who said it was devastated after receiving a notice of the termination of the grants.

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After years of destruction of the oil industry in California, the Newsom government approved the legislation last week to strengthen the production of oil in Kern County. Maya C. Miller and Video Strategy Director by Maya C. Miller Robert Meeks has a video segment on this measure that aims to Address of raising gasoline pricesas part of our partnership with PBS Socal. Watch it hereS

And check out another video from Ryan Sabalov on Calmatters and Robert for another bill on the governor’s desk who would make it easier for Hunters and landowners who kill swans on dumbInvasive species in California. Watch it hereS

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