Newsom proposes to add $1.1 billion annually to the formula to enable those districts to hire more staff for "concentration" school districts, where more than 2 million low-income children and English learners are enrolled.

California is one of four states, including Oregon, Minnesota and Tennessee, along with Washington, D.C., that have proposed new laws.

Facebook’s Oversight Board said the ongoing risk of violence “justified” the suspension.

Nuria Fernandez, former G.M. for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is now Federal Transit Administration's senior official.

America’s lowest achieving students need the support of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. And yet, her voice has been notably silent.

In 1988, while working for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in Minneapolis—he was stumping for Hubert “Skip” Humphrey for the U.S. Senate—a revelation occurred out of the public sphere. As a witness to the event, it resonates today in the era of partisanship. It was an example of how politics really work when not viewed solely through the jaded lens of the media.

A bill authored by Nora Campos, a former San Jose city councilmember who is now in her first term in the State Assembly, would give unions far more power in their dealings with top city and county officials. It would even allow them to determine elected officials pay in some cities.

California teachers could soon be required to include the history of gays, lesbians and transgenders in their curriculum, after a landmark vote was passed Thursday in the state Senate.