Their opposition to co-locating charters on traditional campuses reflects tensions throughout many schools and districts.
Alberto Carvalho, a proponent of school choice, oversaw a growth of magnet and charter schools in Miami.
Critics charge DeVos is exploiting a national public-health crisis to promote her agenda of privatizing public education.
Why do California charters enroll far fewer students with disabilities than traditional schools?
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There has been no shortage of charter school failures in California, and the rate of abrupt school closures is very high across the nation.
Twenty-two charters — nearly all of them in high-poverty neighborhoods -- accounted for 42 percent of L.A. charter schools' nearly 3,700 suspensions last year.
LAUSD marks the passing of Michelle King. The strange case of Sebastian Ridley-Thomas. Will Oakland teachers strike?
Studies have found charter school glut and hyper-competition in many neighborhoods.
Also in this week's column: Omarosa reveals Betsy DeVos' nom de Trump. Austin Beutner hires Chris Christie's Newark schools supe. Gary Hart's “legislative jiu-jitsu.”
A teachers' pension fund is in the money . . . Is a Kevin De León bill in the IRS's crosshairs? . . . The State...
Rather than senior researchers, public finance experts and classroom learning specialists, seven of the governor’s 11 appointees appeared to have been recruited from the charter-industrial complex.
The record-shattering spending on candidate Marshall Tuck mirrors the threat level that a Sacramento without Jerry Brown represents to the charter school lobby.
But teachers and their allies are fighting back in Arizona, Kentucky and elsewhere.
From Our ArchivesLionized in death as a champion of Los Angeles’ cultural institutions, Broad also left behind a contentious education legacy.
Different sets of construction regulations allow California's charters to build without environmental oversight.
LAUSD will begin a new program Wednesday to keep district students fed during the closure of schools due to the coronavirus.
About $3.5 million worth of attack mailers have targeted Jackie Goldberg and other LAUSD school board members.
Where Elizabeth Warren and Gavin Newsom’s plans to reinvest in public schools most diverge is on funding mechanisms. Liz has one; Gavin doesn't.
The end to decades of intractable charter warfare came courtesy of an unstoppable grassroots movement.