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		<title>Statewide Survey Highlights Parents Priorities for California Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, PICO California, together with California ACORN, Californians for Justice and Public Advocates, released the first statewide survey capturing parent and student voices from low- and middle-income neighborhoods, articulating their priorities for public education reform. The new study, based on the responses of 5,600 adults and young people across California from San Diego to rural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/09/25/statewide-survey-highlights-parents-priorities-for-california-schools/</link>
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		<title>Parent-Teacher home visit program gets funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two hundred schools in California received funding to support teacher home visits. Applications for the second round of funding are now available and schools can apply through June 4, 2007.]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/05/08/parent-teacher-home-visit-program-gets-funds/</link>
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		<title>An historic opportunity for healthcare reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PICO California afiiliates prepare to take advantage of the historic push by Governor Schwarzenegger for health care coverage for all Californians.]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/05/07/an-historic-opportunity-for-healthcare-reform/</link>
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		<title>Bay Area fights for affordable housing funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Bay Area PICO California affiliates fight to create a model fee that will fund local trust funds in two counties. Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA) and Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organizing (CCISCO) have begun an effort to change state law so that San Mateo and Contra Costa County, can create a $25 document transfer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/05/06/bay-area-fight-for-affordable-housing-funds/</link>
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		<title>Congress is on its way to covering all kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Budget Committee approves $50 billion over five years for children's health care coverage.]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/04/25/congress-is-on-its-way-to-covering-all-kids/</link>
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		<title>LA Voice partners with Univision to lift up the voices of immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LA Voice has recently teamed up with Univisión and other immigrant rights’ advocates from across the region for the ¡Ya Es Hora! (Now is the Time) citizenship campaign.  The goal of this campaign is simple:  urge the 1,000,000 eligible legal permanent residents in the Southern California region to become citizens and vote.
Just last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/04/14/la-voice-partners-with-univision-to-lift-up-the-voices-of-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>Clergy call for halt to immigration raids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Faith leaders call for President Bush to direct the Department Homeland Security to halt the raids immediately and to reunite families; and Congress to hold hearings to investigate I.C.E. behavior. On May 17th they PICO affiliates impacted by the I.C.E. raids will deliver a joint clergy statement to Congress.]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/04/03/clergy-call-for-halt-to-immigration-raids/</link>
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		<title>$50 billion in new funding puts the United States on the road to covering all children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday March 23, the U.S. Senate approved a budget that includes $50 billion in new funding for reauthorization of the State Children&#8217;s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).  This funding should provide room for states to offer health coverage to as many as 5 million uninsured children, while protecting the coverage for another 1.5 million [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/03/26/50-billion-in-new-funding-puts-the-united-states-on-the-road-to-covering-all-children/</link>
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		<title>San Francisco presses speaker to lead on covering children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A delegation of 40 San Francisco clergy and families along with leaders from across the PICO network met with staff in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washinton, DC. Following up on a February 22 press conference with Archbishop Niederauer, the San Francisco Organizing Project and PICO California pressed Speaker Pelosi to speak out publicly in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/03/08/san-francisco-presses-speaker-to-lead-on-covering-children/</link>
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		<title>Momentum builds to cover all children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 7 PICO held a Faith and Families Summit on Children&#8217;s Health, in partnership with Georgetown Center for Children and Families and First Focus, to press Congress to include $60 billion in the budget for children&#8217;s health coverage.  Senators Menendez (D-NJ) (Budget), Landrieu (D-LA), Kerry (D-MA) (Finance) and Lautenberg (D-NJ) (Budget) and Representatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/03/07/momentum-builds-to-cover-all-children/</link>
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		<title>PICO California brings faith voice to the capitol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PICO California invited over one hundred faith and community leaders to Sacramento on February 27th to make their voices heard in the State Capitol. Leaders from across the state met with their elected officials in the Senate and Assembly to talk about issues such as children&#8217;s healthcare, affordable housing, education, and other local concerns. Leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/02/27/pico-california-brings-faith-voice-to-the-capitol/</link>
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		<title>Bakersfield unites to reduce violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite chilly, wet, and windy weather, nearly 600 people met at St. Joseph&#8217;s Church to discuss the health and safety of east Bakersfield.   Organized by the East Bakersfield Faith Community Alliance- a network of east Bakersfield congregations and residents- the huge crowd met with newly-elected Sheriff Donny Youngblood to confirm a new partnership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/02/22/bakersfield-unites-to-reduce-violence/</link>
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		<title>San Bernardino city council bends to crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The San Bernardino city council found $114,000 for a Police Activities League and other after-school programs when they were confronted by a throng of over 150 people attending their February 20 meeting. Organized by the Youth Organizing Project of Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC), more than 50 teenagers, parents, and clergy testified about widespread [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/02/20/san-bernardino-city-council-bends-to-crowd/</link>
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		<title>Santa Clara County congregations organize for universal health coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An over-capacity crowd exceeding 500 gathered at a Los Gatos synagogue to press county supervisors and state and local legislators to support of legislation that would guarantee health coverage for everyone in the county. Peninsula Interfaith Action and People Acting in Community Together  organized the event and have been working together for months to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/02/12/santa-clara-county-congregations-organize-for-universal-health-coverage/</link>
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		<title>LA Voice takes regional approach to eradicating gangs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concerned residents, clergy, and officials of Santa Monica, Venice, and LA were all in attendance Tuesday night as the brand new Police Chief of Santa Monica pledged to work regionally to eliminate gang violence. Four members of Santa Monica&#8217;s city council, including the mayor, agreed to organize a neighborhood watch program. In addition, the Chamber [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/02/10/la-voice-takes-regional-approach-to-eradicating-gangs/</link>
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		<title>Contra Costa cities resist ICE&#8217;s tactics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In front of a gathering of 500 frightened and angry immigrant families on Sunday, the mayor of Richmond, California agreed to formally protest recent raids by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS&#8217; enforcement wing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, has arrested 119 people in Contra Costa County over the past few weeks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/01/29/contra-costa-cities-resist-ices-tactics/</link>
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		<title>Water improvements won in Cathedral City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cathedral City, CA is building a new sanitary central sewer, making septic systems unnecessary for the first time. Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC) worked closely with the city to establish an assesment district, Dream Homes, that will receive more than $9 million for the improvements, including funds to cover the rebuilding of streets, curbs, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://picocalifornia.org/news/2007/01/20/water-improvements-won-in-cathedral-city/</link>
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