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What’s Driving Latest Flare-Up in California’s Charter School War?

When Gavin Newsom succeeded Jerry Brown as California’s governor two years ago, it re-ignited the Capitol’s long-running conflict over charter schools, which receive public funds but operate independently of traditional public school systems. As mayor of Oakland, Brown had founded two charter schools, the Oakland Military Institute and the Oakland...

Should Low-Performing Fresno Charter School Get More Time to Improve?

A charter school in downtown Fresno classified as low-performing could get another two years to show academic improvement under a recommendation by the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools office. It's the latest chapter in the troubled history of Kepler Neighborhood School, a TK-8 elementary school on Broadway Street. Three years...

Pandemic Reveals Need for Schools to Utilize Technology for Online Classrooms

When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to close this spring, it exposed the California Legislature’s lack of wisdom in approving a two-year moratorium on the expansion of distance learning in charter public schools. It’s not the decade of the 1990s or 2000s, it’s 2020. We are a fifth of the...

Walters: Finally, a School Data System Emerging

California has a very fragmented approach to education — a collection of institutional silos that only occasionally communicate with each other and often are more competitive than cooperative. That fragmentation is very visible in the perpetual conflicts between traditional K-12 schools and parent-directed charter schools, and in the battles among...

US Adds 145,000 Jobs; Unemployment Holds at 3.5%

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 145,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.5%, signaling that the job market remains strong at the start of 2020 even if hiring and wage gains have slowed somewhat more than a decade into an economic expansion. Friday’s snapshot from the...

Democrat Julián Castro Drops out of 2020 Presidential Race

AUSTIN, Texas — Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro, the only Latino in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, on Thursday ended his campaign that had pushed the field on immigration and swung hard at rivals on the debate stage but never found a foothold to climb from the back...

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