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"Pension reform" has become the latest battle cry in a seemingly endless war that has ostensibly been declared against tax-dollar waste, but whose single-minded purpose has been to slash the job protections and benefits enjoyed by California's working middle class. Pension-cutting advocates recently met at a secret summit hosted by the Reason Foundation, whose most prominent trustee is David Koch, and it now appears if ballot initiatives are in motion to gut the safety net promised to California's public sector workers.

San Antonio proposed a new ordinance to shield LGBT members of the community from being fired indiscriminately. The act codifies what already exists in many towns and cities across Texas, though conservatives wrongly blast the legislation has anti-Christian.

Gary CohnGary Cohn: A conservative legal organization that has pushed to overturn the 1964 Voting Rights Act filed a lawsuit in federal court in Santa Ana that could accomplish in the courts what Prop. 32 couldn’t at the ballot box.
Prop 32 Ghost Looms Over Lawsuit Against Teachers Union is a post from: LA Progressive
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In California, conflicts arise from the process of co-location, wherein a charter school shares the same campus as a public school. Teachers and students report unequal treatment, and snubbing by the charter school staff and students.

A closer examination of one of the nation’s hottest new education-reform movements, a seemingly populist crusade to empower poor parents and fix failing public schools, reveals that the “parent-trigger” movement is being heavily financed by the conservative Walton Family Foundation, one of the nation’s largest and most strident anti-union organizations.