Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

An umbrella coalition representing a wide spectrum of interest groups,from education, labor, public safety, environment, health care andsocial services—nearly every state general fund service—has formed in order to press Governor Schwarzenegger to raise taxes, rather than slash 10% of spending across the board, reports the SacBee. The coalition as of yet remains unnamed, but they’re ready tocarry it all the way to a ballot initiative if they can’t persuade thelegislature in their favor.

Governor Schwarzenegger is calling on the state Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court’s recent decision to ban parents from home schooling their children if they lack a teaching credential, reports the LA Times. If the courtrefuses to act, the Governor is planning on pushing through legislationto safeguard the right to home school children.