Educate Our State

October 14, 2020

Prop. 13 Faces Biggest Challenge Yet With Prop. 15. Is This the Tax Reform California Needs?

By Janice Bitters

The measure coming up on the Nov. 3 ballot is the closest anyone’s gotten to touching the “third rail” of California politics.

February 20, 2014

Mayor’s Race Gets an Education Forum

On Wednesday, the county Board of Education agreed to participate in a mayoral candidate forum on education. Educate Our State invited the Board be a partner, and the data show a thoughtful discussion is needed. Nineteen of the thirty-one districts in the county are located in San Jose, and nearly 50 percent of San Jose’s public school students test below grade level in math and English.