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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...