Funding far from equal among Calif. school districts

06/14/11 By Louis Freedberg and Stephen K. Doig, California Watch State lawmakers have struggled for decades to bring equality to how school districts are funded, yet some districts receive thousands more per student than others, a California Watch analysis has found. And the data shows spending more provides no assurance of academic success. Last year, California schools spent [...]

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Armed volunteers clean up garbage, toxins left by marijuana growers

06/24/11 Robert Townsend Robert Townsend/California Watch Paul Trouette (right) briefs a cleanup crew before entering an area where illegal marijuana growers have left garbage and toxic items. Early on a recent Saturday morning, two men wearing camouflage fatigues parked a pickup truck deep in the Mendocino County backwoods. They checked their gear. Industrial trash bags, weapons, water, food and first ...

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On eve of 2nd birthday, California Watch set to open Southern California bureau

07/14/11 Mark Katches Almost two years ago, we launched our new investigative team at California Watch, the largest investigative reporting team operating in the state. We started with an office in the Bay Area, inside our mother ship at the Center for Investigative Reporting, and soon opened a Sacramento office across the street from the state Capitol. We always planned to open a Southern California ...

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