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• Paying for Schools

  This series of stories takes an in-depth look at how schools are financed in California. The investigation found it to be an incredibly convoluted and inequitable system. The distribution of money from district to district is uneven, and politics often determine who gets the most money. A lot of the money is doled out based on outdated programs with little connection to modern day needs in schools. Much of the money is released to schools with little or no state monitoring of whether the programs are working or even happening, and some actually aren't.

  Tags: spending; school programs; Governor Gray Davis; school budget; school funding; Gifted and Talented Education; Bilingual Teacher Training; Gang Risk Intervention; West Contra Costa Unified School District; Dropout Prevention Program; Anti-Defamation League; English Language Acquisition Program; Department of Education; Economic Impact Aid; California Legislature; Senate Rules Committee; public education

  By Deb Kollars

  Sacramento Bee Magazine

  2003

• The Third House Rises

  National Journal examines "a shadowy arm of Congress," the so-called conference committees whose work is to reconcile competing versions of House and Senate bills. "No rules govern their activities, and once they've made their decision, their legislative handiwork is presented to rank-and-file lawmakers on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," reports the magazine. The story looks at the role that conference committees played in the federal legislative process in recent years. The author points out that, with the coming of the new administration of George W. Bush, conference committees "will become ground zero in battles between the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate."

  Tags: GOP; Congress; Senate; Republicans; Democrats; politicians; White House; vetoes; Clinton; Clean Air Act

  By Richard E. Cohen

  National Journal

  2001

• Election fraud claims: a collection of stories focusing on Louisiana's 1996 U.S. Senate race

  The election fraud allegations made by Republican Louis "Woody" Jenkins after he was defeated by Democrat Mary Landrieu were serious enough to provoke a formal investigation by the U.S. Senate Rules Committee. But the newspaper found that some people who had made the election-fraud allegations may have taken bribes.

  Tags: SERIES

  By Joan McKinney

  Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)

  1997

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  Common Cause Magazine discovers a loophole in Senate ethics rules that allowed the National Republican Senatorial Committee to use campaign funds to reimburse senators for office expenses, including everything from telephone bills to meals at expensive restaurants, January/February 1986.

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  By None

  Common Cause Magazine (Washington, D.C.)

  1986