It was the last committee stop for the bill, which passed the Senate and now will be up for an Assembly floor vote.

 

SB792, by Sen. Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia, would require vaccination for whooping cough, measles and influenza for all day care workers.

 

The only exemption for a whooping cough or measles immunization would be a physician’s note that exempts individuals for whom the vaccination would not be safe.

 

Day care workers who do not want to get the influenza vaccine, though, just need to fill out a form to become exempt from the requirement.

 

The bill also reiterated the need for evidence of being free of tuberculosis — known as “clearance” —  among day care workers, which already is required by law.

No crowds of protesters for this legislation

But unlike with legislation mandating that students get vaccinations before being allowed in school — a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that ended nearly all exemptions and was criticized by, among others, the Washington Post editorial board — this bill is generating little controversy and enjoys bipartisan support. It was lobbied for by the Health Officers Association of California, the Child Care Law Center, the March of Dimes California chapter, and other groups that promote children’s interests, and faced criticism only from those who consider vaccinations dangerous.

Republicans who objected to the school vaccination bill as an attack on parental rights have accepted Mendoza’s argument that this is a common-sense measure to protect children and a reasonable job requirement for someone who works with young kids.

The measure passed the Senate on a 34-3 vote in May.

Before passing the Assembly Appropriations Committee on a 16-1 vote Wednesday, it won approval on a 6-1 vote in the Assembly Human Services Committee and on a 16-1 vote in the Assembly Health Committee.

If the bill is adopted by the full Assembly and signed by the governor, it will take effect Sept. 1, 2016.

By John Seiler

Here’s a heartening story.

From the time they go to preschool until the day they graduate from professional school three decades later, kids these days suffer relentless politically correct indoctrination. Their K-12 teachers and their university professors almost unanimously give them this message: “Government is good. Government is wonderful. Government will solve all your problems.”

Yet a new poll shows that 61 percent of college-age students want the government out of their lives.

Why? Well, kids are bearing the brunt of government tyranny. They’re being forced into Obamacare, whether they want to or not, which means they’ll be taxed heavily to pay for the ailments of older folks.

They pay massively into Social Security and Medicare. Yet I remember a poll a few years ago which showed more youngsters believe in UFOs than believe they’ll ever get an FDR dime out of these bankrupt socialist systems.

The kids run up college debt of as much as $200,000 — then can’t find jobs in the worst “recovery” in 70 years. Housing is so expensive they have to stay at home with Mom and Pop well into their 30s.

It’s hard to save enough money to get married and have kids. The Federal Reserve Board has kept interest rates at zero percent the past five years, even as inflation eats up the dollar’s value. “Savings” means the money in your savings account goes down in value 2 percent a year. The stock market is setting “records,” just over 15,000 for the DJIA, only because of inflation.

The wars of the federal government, which youngsters have to fight on the front lines, are inconclusive and seem pointless. And why are we spending trillions on hundreds of overseas bases to fight a Soviet Union that died so long ago no kid under 25 even remembers it?

But the kids have the Internet. So unlike my late 1960s, 1970s generation, which had few news sources beside the Main Stream Media, kids can find out what’s really going on from alternative Web sites; or at least get a contrasting point of view from what they’re fed by the military-industrial-Congressional-media-university complex.

This gives me hope for the future.

Next on the agenda: to get it out of their lives, the kids need to begin dismantling this monstrous government.

By Chris Reed

Is Jerry Brown knowingly picking a fight with the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers? Based on his remarks Thursday, that’s what it seems like.

The governor wants to change the basic education funding formulas to give more money to underperforming schools, with the prime metric being how their students do in writing and reading English. This could lead to a change in the California education status quo that we have seen for decades in which everything about K-12 schools is built around the interests of veteran teachers.

What do they want? To retain the current status quo — the one that allows veteran teachers to teach in schools in affluent neighborhoods where students have fewer academic, crime and behavioral problems. No, they do not want to be noble public servants who try to help society by teaching the students who need the best teachers.

Critics of this attitude should get off their high horse. Of course people should pursue career paths that suit them. But elected Democrats in California for at least two decades have ignored the fact that the CTA and the CFT don’t give a damn about the “social justice” that arguably would result if the best teachers were given the most challenging students.

Hey, Assembly Speaker John Perez! Are you going to back the governor? Or are you just another union puppet?

Gloria Romero is right to frame the fight over California public education as being about civil rights — the interests of mostly white teachers vs. majority-Latino students. Gov. Brown’s budget, if not his rhetoric, implicitly agrees with her take on California.

Will the media notice? We shall see.

My newspaper, at least, did.

“When Romero said the inequities facing Latino students were California’s biggest civil-rights issue, she got little support from fellow Democratic lawmakers – and the CTA pronounced her ‘dangerous’ and used its clout to kill her 2010 bid to be state superintendent of public instruction.

“The governor didn’t frame the issue as dramatically as Romero. But it’s quite telling that the first time he had enough budget flexibility to pursue a big idea, he focused on the inequities facing Latino students. It may not be long before the CTA calls Jerry Brown ‘dangerous.'”

As I wrote Thursday, it is highly likely that Brown is rebuffed, and that Sacramento’s status quo of always doing what’s best for veteran teachers is preserved. But it’s interesting to see the governor take on this status quo, given how widely he’s considered the sharpest guy in town.