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, ...

In addition to its pro–charter school efforts, EdVoice has lobbied heavily against state legislation intended to return control of the Oakland Unified School District to its elected school board. The ...

An education advocacy group is pushing a ballot initiative that would streamline the process for firing abusive teachers, after two bills on the subject failed. “As we’ve witnessed over the last two ...

The Torlakson name has been a near-constant on the ballots of voters in the San Francisco East Bay, where state schools chief Tom Torlakson got his political start more than three decades ago. Last ...

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 ...