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By Tomoki Chien & Claire Qiu

Good morning, we hope you had a good weekend. Here are the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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Striking workers reached a tentative deal with the LA Unified School District. The workers — who include cafeteria staff, bus drivers, special education assistants and custodians — said the district agreed to its key demands, including a 30% pay increase. The full union still needs to vote on the contract.

Staff / The New York Times

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California is looking to spend Medicaid funds on housing for the homeless after the Biden administration granted permission for Arizona and Oregon to do so, citing research that showed stable housing improves health. Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed spending some $100 million per year on the program.

Adam Beam / Associated Press

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) will co-chair Rep. Barbara Lee’s 2024 Senate campaign, signaling that he’s not interested in running for the upper chamber – or the White House — as some pundits had suspected. The latest polling showed that just 4% of registered California Democrats would have backed a Khanna campaign for the Senate.

Nolan D. McCaskill / Los Angeles Times

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California will stop asking residents to voluntarily cut their water intake after recent storms eased drought fears and replenished the state’s reservoirs. But Newsom was careful to stress that the drought is not over, as water shortages still remain in the Klamath River basin along the California-Oregon border as well as the Colorado River, which serves densely populated Southern California.

Adam Beam / Associated Press

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LA Metro’s board of directors voted to extended its contract with the LA and Long Beach police departments and the county sheriff. The board also expressed interested in forming its own in-house police force, which could in theory allow the transit system to exert more control over the controversial policing practices on its bus and train lines.

Libby Rainey / LAist

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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