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As the California Legislature gets closer to finalizing its new fiscal budget, the Big City Mayor coalition is urging the state to stay true to the state Assembly’s recent proposal to provide an annual $1 billion in flexible funding directly to cities for four years.

The mayors of California’s largest cities made what they called a “closing argument” Wednesday. They aretrying to convince state lawmakers to commit $1 billion a year for four years to address homelessness. Robert Handa reports.

Their school is temporarily closed, but that doesn’t mean some McClymonds High School students are slacking off.

Their school is temporarily closed, but that doesn’t mean some McClymonds High School students are slacking off. Forty students and several teachers on Friday picked up trash and handed out meals to homeless people in Oakland while their school remains shuttered following the discovery of contaminated groundwater beneath the campus.