Mikhail Zinshteyn

Los Angeles

Higher Education Reporter at CalMatters

@CalMatters higher-ed reporter. Past: @insidehighered @hechingerreport @TheAtlantic @The74 @EdSource, etc. Pell recipient. Soviet baby refugee. RTs≠Endorsements

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Californians once supported denying immigrants social services and education

1 week ago | calmatters.org | Ben Christopher |Mikhail Zinshteyn

Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State. In 1994, a 26-year-old Alex Padilla, sporting a newly minted engineering degree from MIT, was back at home living with his parents in the San Fernando Valley when that fall’s most heated ballot measure campaign dragged him into a life of politics.
Trump lawyers call his decision to send troops to LA ‘unreviewable’ by U.S. courts

1 week ago | ijpr.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals seemed at least open to that argument in a remote video hearing today, unlike a lower court judge who ruled against the administration last week. The arguments played out as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ended a curfew that she imposed after President Trump sent the National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city in response to immigration protests. California’s Democratic leadership, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, has called the deployment unnecessary.
Appeals court allows Trump to keep National Guard in Los Angeles temporarily

2 weeks ago | desertsun.com | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers to continue while it considers Trump’s challenge to a lower court’s decision that found he illegally mobilized those troops without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the case June 17.
UPDATE: Federal judge halts Trump’s National Guard deployment

2 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

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Federal judge halts Trump’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles

2 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn |Ben Christopher

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A federal judge halted President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, finding that he broke the law in ordering them to put down urban unrest without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Lawmakers say no to Newsom’s big social service spending cuts

2 weeks ago | calmatters.org | Yue Stella Yu |Jeanne Kuang |Mikhail Zinshteyn

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the state Legislature are pushing back, proposing more borrowing. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.
Another Casualty of Trump Research Cuts? California Students Who Want To Be Scientists

3 weeks ago | the74million.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate students for doctoral degrees in the sciences.
Promising California science students a casualty of Trump's research cuts

1 month ago | timesofsandiego.com | Mikhail Zinshteyn

This article was originally published byCalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate students for doctoral degrees in the sciences.
Another casualty of Trump cuts? California students pursuing science research careers

1 month ago | calmatters.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn

At least 24 University of California and California State University campuses lost training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of approximately $12,000 or more. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.
UC has been enrolling more in-state students. Proposed state cuts may halt that growth

2 months ago | ijpr.org | Mikhail Zinshteyn

The University of California will enroll fewer new California students if planned state cuts are implemented, college officials told state lawmakers during a hearing today on the system’s finances. “University of California cannot afford to continue increasing enrollment with less funding, it just can’t,” said UC’s top academic officer, Katherine Newman, at an Assembly budget subcommittee hearing.