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The Learning Curve: Meet the New Bond, Just Like the Last Bond<\/a><\/p>\n

By Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, San Diego Unified officials have been ironing out the details of a new construction bond measure, set to go before voters in November. Construction bonds, if passed, raise property taxes to fund school construction and renovation.<\/p>\n

At a board meeting late last month, staff gave the public its first real look at the new $3.5 billion bond ask.<\/p>\n

Many of the features of the bond \u2013 from what officials say it will fund to how they say it will impact taxpayers\u2019 pocketbooks \u2013 are essentially identical to previous bonds they\u2019ve passed. That\u2019s not entirely surprising, because that pitch has worked like a charm on previous bond measures.<\/p>\n

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After months of prep, Waymo nearly ready to launch driverless service in San Diego<\/a><\/p>\n

by Jennifer Vigil | Times of San Diego<\/p>\n

Waymo cars have been all over central San Diego for more than a year, but always with drivers at the wheel. Ready or not, that\u2019s about to change.<\/p>\n

The company said Wednesday that\u00a0Waymo<\/a>\u00a0vehicles will soon begin fully autonomous operations \u2014 meaning without human drivers \u2014 in four new cities, including San Diego.<\/p>\n

It will be a soft start, with rider-only operations initially offered solely for employees. Waymo, in a blog post, said only that it expects \u201cto welcome the public soon.\u201d Officials with the venture, which is majority owned by Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company, said local residents can learn when Waymo goes live to the public by downloading the app for notifications.<\/p>\n

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California school libraries blindsided by \u2018catastrophic\u2019 budget cut<\/a><\/p>\n

by Carolyn Jones | CalMatters<\/p>\n

California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, projects or homework assignments.<\/p>\n

Without notice to schools or librarians, the Legislature last week canceled $5.5 million that pays online fees for the Encyclopedia Britannica, New York Times, PBS videos such as Ken Burns documentaries, scientific journals and thousands of other online materials used by students and teachers. The cut goes into effect on July 1, 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had no idea this was coming,\u201d said Greg Lucas, head of the California State Library, which helps oversee the program for California\u2019s 10,000 public schools. \u201cThis will have a huge impact on California students.\u201d<\/p>\n

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