Daily Business Report: Friday, September 26, 2025
San Diego Unified Has More than Doubled After-School Care
By Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego
Over the past three years, San Diego Unified has made big moves on the after-school care front.
Between August 2022 and September 2025, the district increased the number of schools that offer PrimeTime – the district’s free before- and after-school care program for K-8 students – by more than two dozen. Over that same period, they also more than doubled the number of students enrolled.
Now, hot on the heels of a huge injection of new state funding for the program, district officials are set on expanding. But it won’t be easy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Proposition 50 Campaigns
By Joel Fox | California Globe
The campaigns in support and opposition to Proposition 50 changing California’s congressional redistricting law are pretty simple. On the yes side the message is to stop President Donald Trump by adding more Democrats to the state’s delegation. On the no side the message is to stop politicians from taking power from the voters so the politicians can draw their own districts.
In a close election, the messaging battle leaves the door open for former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to tip the balance in his effort to keep the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission in place, which he helped create.
Governor Gavin Newsom who is behind the effort to undo the commission-he says temporarily—is running the big expensive yes campaign. He is certain because Californians largely disapprove of Trump he can rally enough Democratic voters to support Prop 50 which he believes will elect more Democrats to Congress to stop Trump’s agenda.
Newsom drove the Legislature to put Prop. 50 on the ballot to gain as many as five more Democratic seats in congress to offset efforts by Republican controlled states to add more Republicans in congress via unusual mid-decade redistricting efforts.
President Donald Trump vs. Governor Gavin Newsom on Climate Change
By Katy Grimes | California Globe
What a contrast. Tuesday at the United Nations, President Donald Trump read UN leaders the riot act for imposing their immoral, destructive climate change policies on Western Countries, while California Governor Gavin Newsom inked a partnership between California and Brazil “to scale up cooperation” on climate change schemes, clean energy, cutting pollution, and “job-creating climate opportunities.”
President Trump railed against climate change:
“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
