While the GOP primary for governor gobbles up most of the major media attention today in California, education policy geeks will be more interested in what goes down in the three-person contest for ...

In its final stretch, the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in California is taking on a sharper tone as Bay Area Assemblyman Tony Thurmond and former education executive Marshall ...

California schools face a rocky future, with districts across the state considering school closures or layoffs in an attempt to plug multimillion-dollar budget holes or address declining enrollment, ...

After bills to streamline the dismissal process for abusive teachers failed two years in a row, a Sacramento-based nonprofit wants to put the issue to voters. The advocacy organization EdVoice has ...

Charter school advocates and their allies, largely bankrolled by a handful of wealthy donors, are dominating the state’s political landscape this primary season, pouring nearly $9 million into ...

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Four years after a major lawsuit in California brought attention to districts ignoring a teacher-evaluation statute, many districts continue not to include student achievement as a measure of teacher ...