And why California could see more races like this.
California's charter lobby remains fiercely opposed to far-reaching reforms found in a state Assembly bill.
Gavin Newsom hailed a new charter school transparency law he signed. Why won't the law prevent charters from failing?
Co-published by the American Prospect The scenes unfolding outside students' schools were dramatic by any measure, giving them daily glimpses of their teachers' commitment and the...
There was one key difference between last week's picket lines of Marlton School teachers and students, and those of other LAUSD schools: Marlton's chanted “Strike, strike,...
Gavin Newsom's most dramatic break from the Jerry Brown era is the governor-elect's fierce commitment to high-quality child care and universal preschool.
Doris Fisher and her family have quietly become among the largest political funders of charter school efforts in the country. Much of her money goes to...
Whoever is elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in November will have a historic opportunity to correct the course of a system in which the public good...
Good news/bad news for state schools. Charter lobby's burned bridge problem. Austin Beutner ratchets up tensions with Los Angeles teachers.
Yesterday the subscriber-only political almanac California Target Book reported that spending by all independent expenditure committees (IECs) on legislative races in the general election had topped...
Joel Warner reports on the Netflix CEO’s attempts to disrupt public education.
Born Doris Feigenbaum in 1931 in New York, Fisher and her husband struck modern-day gold in San Francisco when they founded the first Gap store there...
Aimee Roylance was thrilled when her son was accepted into Livermore Valley Charter School in 2010. “The experience overall was very positive,” she says. But she...
When the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, the $490 million blueprint to turn half of Los Angeles’ public school system into charter schools, was first leaked...
Despite the trendy popularity of charter schools in some circles, their wholesale replacement of traditional public schools is unnecessary.
Charter proponents, most notably the Walton Family Foundation, contribute large amounts of money to expand charter schools in select cities around the nation.
At first, Rosalba Naranjo was thrilled that her two daughters were attending Richard Merkin Middle School, a charter school located near downtown Los Angeles.
Charter schools, their lobbyists and choice proponents often discuss the underperformance of traditional public schools in the public discourse. But what data should be trusted by...
Last September’s sensational leak of the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, a half-billion-dollar plan to double the number of charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified...