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La Opinión: Dos opciones en favor de la educación en las elecciones de California
By Pilar Marrero/La Opinión
Dos iniciativas en la boleta electoral del próximo 6 de noviembre en California plantean un aumento temporal de impuestos con el objetivo de invertir en las escuelas del estado, que están en el puesto 47 de gasto por estudiantes de los 50 estados del país, pero lo hacen con fórmulas muy diferentes que han producido un enfrentamiento entre las campañas.
The Tribune: Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget plans threatened by a determined Molly Munger
By Kevin Yamamura/The Tribune
The Yes on 30 campaign has portrayed Munger and her brother as wealthy heirs using their fortune to harm schools and avoid higher taxes. Grass-roots leaders rallied Thursday in Los Angeles, calling on Molly Munger to pull her ads. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson asked for a cease-fire in a statement released by the campaign.
Los Angeles Times: Yes on Proposition 30, no on Proposition 38
By Los Angeles Times
The day Gov. Jerry Brown took office in 2011, the state budget was more than $25 billion in the red — the latest installment in a long-running drama of boom-and-bust budgeting.
KDFX Fox 11: Students call on community to support Prop 30
By KDFX Fox 11
Valley students teamed up tonight to literally call on the community for support on the tax initiative. Many fear a "No Vote" — could strip away their opportunities and keep students far away from achieving a higher education.
星島日報: 支持團體積極打電話向華人拉票 少數族裔握30號提案關鍵票
By 顧文屋 / 星島日報
根據最新的調查數據，支持加州30號提案的選民現時比反對者僅有微小優勢。若這項提案得到更多華裔及少數族裔的選民更積極的支持，將更大機會能順利通過，幫助高等教育、醫療、公共安全避免遭大幅的經費削減。
世界新聞網: 各族裔組織 齊推廣30號提案
By 陳巧倫 / 世界新聞網
服務華裔、菲律賓裔、越裔、韓裔的多個亞裔社區組織，3日舉行記者會，宣布共同支持加州30號提案，目標召集全州五個縣、1萬3500位亞裔選民支持布朗州長提出的30號提案
San Francisco Chronicle: Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally vote
By Curt Anderson/AP Press
It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation.
Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of "souls to the polls" to deliver the vote.
Mercury News editorial: Vote yes on Prop. 30, no on Prop. 38
By Mercury News editorial
Rarely do ballot measures present as important or challenging a choice as Propositions 30 and 38 on the November ballot. Both would levy taxes, and both promise help for public schools, which most Californians realize are crucial to the state's economy. In fact California's financial stability may be at stake in this election. The wrong tax directing money in the wrong way could speed the state's decline.