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Tom Hayden, an appreciation BY MICHAEL TITTINGER For the Daily Press
HAYDEN
Friends and colleagues of Tom Hayden continue to pay tribute to the former firebrand college liberal-turned California lawmaker since his death in Santa Monica last week at the age of 76. Hayden will be forever linked to riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Vietnam War protests of the 1970s and his
onetime marriage to actress Jane Fonda. Those events, however, ultimately represented just a small slice of a life dedicated to, as he put it, trying to change the world. The true measure of a man is sometimes better gauged by the impact he made on others’ lives, including those he didn’t even know very well. In 1964, in Newark, New Jersey,
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Volume 15 Issue 290
Santa Monica Daily Press
PROPOSITION 58
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PROPOSITION 55
English-only Voters asked education could to keep taxing become history BY AMY TAXIN Associated Press
SANTA ANA, Calif. — California voters
are considering repealing a law banning most bilingual education, an idea state residents overwhelmingly endorsed almost 20 years ago. English immersion was a hotbutton topic when voters approved Proposition 227 in 1998, with sup-
SEE HAYDEN PAGE 5
STAR-MAKING TURNS
SEE PROP 58 PAGE 4
Photos courtesy of The Music Center
Students from Grand View, Marina Del Rey and Mar Vista elementary schools perform on stage as part of The Music Center's 38th Annual ‘Very Special Arts Festival’.More than 5,000 children with disabilities from across Los Angeles County, along with their mainstream peers, gathered to celebrate their artistic achievements in both the visual and performing arts.
the rich for better schools
BY JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — California is a state
that both mints millionaires and relies heavily on taxing them to fund its education and provide basic state government services. Both of those Californias feature in Proposition 55, which asks voters to extend higher income tax rates they passed four years ago on the wealthiest residents for another 12 years. Most of the money would fund public schools, though the Medi-Cal insurance program for the poor also would benefit, as would the state's financial emergency fund. The proposition's supporters, unions that are far better funded and organized than the opposition, say letting the increased rates of up to 3 percent lapse is the equivalent of cutting school funding by several billion dollars each year. Opponents argue that the state cannot continue soaking its richest residents — lest they move away — and that the real proposition should be a politically unpalatable revamp of a tax code in tatters. If the arguments sound familiar, they should. In 2012, as the state reeled from the lingering effects of the Great Recession, voters increased income taxes on residents who each year earn more than $263,000 for single filers and $526,000 for families. Backers led by Gov. Jerry Brown pushed Proposition 30 as a temporary, necessary way to reinvest in schools whose budgets had been hammered. SEE PROP 55 PAGE 7
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