Phillip Reese
Phillip Reese is a data specialist and assistant professor in the journalism program at Sacramento State University
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California school districts' rising employee pension costs
Look up per-student pension costs for districts across California with this interactive database, and see how much they've changed since a 2012 state law passed to rescue the state’s two pension systems.
Phillip Reese And Daniel J. Willis
March 21, 2019
With new hires, California's teaching corps becomes more diverse
California's teaching corps is more diverse — more Latino and Asian teachers due to retirements and new hires — but teachers still do not resemble the state's student body in which a majority of the students are Latino, compared to about 1 in 5 of its teachers.