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Source: East Bay Express By: Jean Tepperman Date: April 2, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser The Oakland City Council added new protections for existing businesses and a “preliminary” list of [...]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle By: Jill Tucker Date: March 24, 2015 California’s 1,100 charter schools are subject to insufficient financial oversight, lax practices that leave the door wide [...]

Source: The Washington Post By: Emma Brown Date: March 24, 2015 Journalists, auditors and other investigators have turned up more than $80 million in charter school fraud in California to date, [...]

Source: East Bay Express By: Jean Tepperman Date: March 18, 2015 Related Staff: David Zisser A coalition of a dozen community and labor organizations, including Public Advocates, pushed [...]

Source: KQED By: Farida Jhabvala Romero Date: March 15, 2015 Related Staff: Richard A. Marcantonio Many renters in Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood believe Facebook’s presence has pushed up [...]

Source: EdSource By: John Fensterwald Date: March 1, 2015 Related Staff: John T. Affeldt The State Board of Education is seizing the chance to redefine student achievement and reframe how schools [...]

Source: Slate By: Corinne Ramey Date: February 27, 2015 Related Staff: Guillermo Mayer Race and transportation have long been intertwined. There has been tremendous progress within the past [...]

Source: Education Week By: Arianna Prothero Date: February 2, 2015 Education Week’s Arianna Prothero reports: California’s education department is telling charter and district schools that [...]

Source: 89.3 KPCC By: Deepa Fernandes Date: January 30, 2015 After allegations last November from Public Advocates that up to a third of charter schools violated the state’s free public education [...]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle By: Jill Tucker Date: January 29, 2015 Jill Tucker of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the California Department of Education has confirmed that requiring [...]