Tony Thurmond

California sues Trump administration over tailpipe emissions laws. State looks to combat Amazon deforestation. 'Public charge' rule sows fear.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom weighs a deadline extension for the fraught plan, other officials say they’ll hear from some 200 districts with programs already in place.

Education officials hit pause on a high school ethnic studies plan after receiving thousands of suggestions and complaints. 

Trump campaign strategist weighs in on California health care plans. Presidential candidates duck homeless issue. Charter schools report released.

A closely watched report commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for more local discretion and tighter regulation of charter schools.

Two months into the new job, Tony Thurmond seems to be exactly the man that his most loyal backers hoped (and his opponents feared) he would be. In a Commonwealth Club discussion with CALmatters' education reporter Ricardo Cano, the state’s public schools superintendent didn’t hold back in a wide-ranging discussion Thursday night: He raised doubts about the value of charter schools, criticized school districts for the state’s wave of teacher strikes, questioned the severity of public pension debt and insisted the state must spend more to educate its students.

Newsom on death. Trump on oil. San Francisco on youth crime. Thurmond on charter schools. Athletes on gender equity. And good fences make good neighbors in Santa Rosa.

The transparency mandate signed into law Tuesday is just the first in a flurry of bills aimed at curbing California charter schools.

As teachers strike this week in Oakland, the conflict over charter schools in California is being portrayed in sweeping terms. But a CALmatters analysis of statewide charter enrollment data paints a far more nuanced picture, in which charter growth is more a collection of densely concentrated hotspots than a statewide phenomenon.

As Los Angeles teachers celebrate the end of their six-day strike against the state's largest school district, the Legislature has been left to settle some of the most vexing aspects of their dispute.