The Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee has announced early endorsements for three candidates running in the June primaries.

It was another hard week for local journalists, as several Bay Area News Group employees accepted buyouts in exchange for leaving their jobs.

We need to support our school districts in becoming more like sports teams that measure success through well-defined goals and metrics.

Whether it’s at the City Council or a school board meeting, San Jose is becoming unsafe for fans of free speech.

Leaders of two proposed charter schools say San Jose Unified tried to poach prospective teachers and invalidate their signatures.

Bowing to pressure from parents, San Jose Unified School District agreed to ensure the anonymity of undocumented students.

President Trump’s executive orders on immigration have undocumented parents and students in San Jose’s largest school district on edge.

Five years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the FAIR Education Act, California’s public schools are now rolling LGBTQ history into the coursework.

Helen Chapman took issue with the incumbent’s role in organizing a series of political forums, but she has since agreed to participate.

New research out of Stanford shows clear academic benefits to ethnic studies, especially for younger students who are on the cusp of dropping out of school.

Local leaders in transportation, education, housing and equity convened last week in Mountain View’s Computer History Museum for the 2015 Silicon Valley Regional Economic Forum.

There has been a considerable amount of angst created by a controversial facilities plan in San Jose Unified School District. Unfortunately, it did not have to be this way.

A proposal to relocate students within San Jose Unified School District appears to have been made with the best of intentions. However, it seems these decisions were rushed within the last two months and did not include all possible solutions.

City and county governments must operate with less money, while citizens still expect the same level of services. Two recent partnerships show great work can still be done in this new paradigm.

Rocketship Education, a private charter school chain, stands to lose a legal fight to open another campus on 3.5 acres by the Tamien light-rail station. A Santa Clara County last week issued a tentative ruling that nullifies a Santa Clara County Office of Education decision to grant a zoning exemption to build a third campus in the eight-block community around Washington Elementary School.

How many more years will the country and Silicon Valley put up with broken promises made to our children, before it is too late for us to recover from the lack of political will? This year we commemorate the 30-year anniversary of a national report that provided a clarion call to improve our public education system.