Craft’s office separately received 256 complaints of misconduct by state and local transportation workers in the last year and substantiated wrongdoing in 28 cases, including some involving misuse of state resources and falsification of documents. Most of the $7.4 million in questioned bond funds was not allowed by the state’s...
Editorial: California can’t account for billions of education dollars
It was heralded by then-Gov. Jerry Brown as a way to simplify K-12 education spending and close the state’s achievement gap by giving more money to districts that disproportionately serve needy kids. Since then, state spending on schools has increased about 50%. But, as state Auditor Elaine Howle explained in...