California has introduced a new law dubbed as the Healthy Homework Act with an aim to reduce homework for students. Democratic assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo said the the new law attempts to tackle “a top stressor for kids.” Governor Gavin Newsom signed the act, officially known as AB 2999, into law in September. The law does not forbid homework for students, …
A Bay Area developer has agreed to lower rent for several tenants and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and penalties as part of California’s first settlement under the Tenant Protection Act, the state attorney general announced Friday. The settlement was reached with San Jose-based Green Valley Corp., also known as Swenson Builders, a Silicon Valley landlord, which …
