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Children Now's annual survey provides a comprehensive look at how youth have fared after nearly two years of the pandemic.

A 40-year-old initiative putting a ceiling on state spending may restrict how a budget surplus can be used; one option is capital spending on schools.

Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan rose to became one of the most powerful female...

Their solution: more school choice.  The candidates — CalMatters interviewed John Cox, Larry Elder, Kevin Kiley and Doug Ose for this article — want to “empower” parents by sending state dollars directly to the families rather than school districts. Parents can take that $14,000 dollars of per-pupil spending from the state to any traditional public, charter or private school they like. Turning parents into consumers, the candidates say, will cultivate competition between schools. Parents will “vote with their feet,” and if the state plunges the public school system into the free ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading An East Bay teacher chose not to teach in person. Parents are asking why she's now heading to Mexico FacebookTwitterEmail A kindergarten teacher at a school in West Contra Costa Unified, which reopened classrooms on a hybrid schedule for families who opted in, has chosen not to teach in person, and parents are asking why she’s now heading to Mexico. The halls of Garfield Elementary School are seen empty ahead of reopening in Oakland on March 23.Jessica Christian/The Chronicle The East Bay kindergarten teacher’s email to families Monday offered a simp...