California Teachers Association

With California’s primary just days away, here’s a sampling of some of the players spending big to influence your vote.

Charter school supporters may be an effective counterbalance to the prevailing influence public-employee unions have long exerted on Democratic politics in California. But the billions in campaign donations by pro-charter tycoons also points to the outsized sway personal wealth can have on elections.

Voters won't see the questionnaires candidates answer when they seek endorsements from special interests.

Welcome to the wild ways of campaign money, circa 2018.

A powerful teachers union and advocates of charter schools, battling to shape the future of California schools, ended in a stalemate this year in Sacramento.

Update:  The only teacher shortage bill signed into law in 2017 was Assembly Bill 1157, which is designed to encourage school districts to turn surplus property into employee housing. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed AB 45, to provide money for teacher rental housing, and AB 568, to give teachers six weeks of paid maternity leave. The […]