Choosing Democracy

It's Official - California to Vote on Clean Elections - Initiative Provides Public Financing, Contribution Limits for All A public finan...

Tomgram: Air War, Barbarity, and the Middle East Degrading Behavior The Middle East and the Barbarism of War from the Air By Tom Engelhardt ...

From the Los Angeles Times Deal Breaker How Arnold Schwarzenegger changed his mind on Prop. 98 and lost the support of the all-powerful teac...

On the 5 PM. local news on Saturday, host Pamela Wu just said something like, "Secreatry of State Rice has traveled again to the Middle...

An editorial from the Sacrmento Bee. Another indication of the failure of Bill Hauk to provide leadership in the CSU. This story is taken fr...

The mayor of Los Angeles continues to make taking over of the public schools a priority even though he has not done the other things availab...

Grieder and Rubin on the economy. Excellent, important article in the Nation. Click on the title for the full article. The question is: Will...

In Hauck we can’t trust The general of ‘Arnie’s Army’—a CSU Trustee— is working for his cronies—not for the university By Irv Muchnick Contr...

This isn't bilingual ed Re "Latest from the school policy sausage machine," Peter Schrag, July 12: Schrag's article misinf...

California School Board The article “Budgetless, School Panel,” by Aurelio Rojas in the Sacramento Bee does a good job of explaining the c...

From the streets to the classroom Social justice school offers summer course in history and activism. Austin, Texas By Juan Castillo AMERICA...

California School Board Recent letters by ex governors and recent letters to the Bee by ex staff members of the California Board of Educa...

Budgetless, school panel meets today Its president has quit after squabble with Democrats. By Aurelio Rojas -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published ...

VCReporter.com, Issue of 3/16/06 Classroom quarrel Too bad Jill Stewart didn't look at the 2005 test data and only listened to "one...

Ex-governors push school standards By Aurelio Rojas -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 12:01 am PDT Tuesday, July 11, 2006 A week after Democra...

Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered. For years Gerry Bracey has been challenging the conventional wis...

The Legislative Analyst Office has posted their description of the budget. Note the allocations to k-12 education. In 2006-2007, their is ...

A long post, but well worth reading. Bush Is Not Incompetent By George Lakoff, AlterNet Posted on July 3, 2006, Printed on July 8, 2006 http...

NEA TO CHALLENGE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND A majority of the 8,200 delegates gathered for the National Education Association’s annual convention ...

Mayor Antonio Villariagosa of Los Angeles is in the midst of seeking power to control the Los Angleses city schools. This effort continues ...