Press Releases

SACRAMENTO – Joined by legislators, education advocates, and students, Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside) hosted a rally on debt free college and the need to reform Cal Grant through Assembly Bill 1456.

SACRAMENTO— Today, Assembly Bill 1456, by Assemblymembers Jose Medina (D-Riverside), Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, and Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), Chair of Assembly Budget Subcommittee 2 on E

SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside), Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, released the following statement on Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revision of the 2021-22 State Budget:

SACRAMENTO — Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside), Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, released the following statement on the State Auditor’s report on Calbright College:

SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Jose Medina’s (D-Riverside) bill AB 927, which would extend and expand the successful baccalaureate degree pilot program at the California Community Colleges, passed the Assembly Higher

SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Jose Medina’s (D-Riverside) bill AB 1456, which would reform the state’s Cal Grant financial aid system and increase access for more than 200,000 college students, passed the Assembly Hi

SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Jose Medina’s (D-Riverside) bill AB 101, which would make ethnic studies a graduation requirement, passed the Assembly Education Committee.

SACRAMENTO — Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside), Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, released the following statement on the approval of the ethnic studies model curriculum by the State Board of Education.

SACRAMENTO — Today, Assemblymember Jose Medina (D–Riverside) announced two measures that seek recognition and retribution of COVID-19 victims and survivors.

SACRAMENTO — Assemblymembers Jose Medina (D-Riverside), Chair of the Assembly Highe