Early candidates for state superintendent, Richmond Assemblymember Tony Thurmond and Marshall Tuck. STATE SUPERINTENDENT–BALLOT BOX–“At an education conference Thursday, the two announced candidates for state superintendent of public instruction called for more strategies to counter a teacher shortage they said… Read More ›
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t likely to be a friend of Tony Thurmond next year. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS When it came to funding ballot initiatives for taxing sugary drinks in Oakland and San Francisco last fall,… Read More ›
San Leandro elected officials speaking at a rally Oct. 20 in support of San Lorenzo teachers. PHOTO/SLEA SAN LORENZO | The labor dispute between San Lorenzo teachers and the school district is getting tense by the day. In recent days, the push… Read More ›
Newly-appointed Alameda School Trustee Gray Harris. ALAMEDA SCHOOL BOARD | Alameda’s newest school board member is striking at first glance. With a set of evenly placed tattoos from her shoulders to her elbows and two-toned shocks of blond and copper… Read More ›
HAYWARD | Hayward Unified School District officials said they negotiated with its teachers union into the early morning Friday to reach a tentative new two-year contract. The negotiations which the district said ended at 3:05 a.m. Friday ended an impasse… Read More ›
Joan Buchanan’s state senate was endorsed by the California Teachers Association. STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT | Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters has been to many political rodeos in California. In a column Monday, Walters laid out a very cynical, but truthful… Read More ›
ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | Republican upstart Catharine Baker may be causing quite a few headaches for Assembly Democrats Wednesday night. The Tri Valley attorney leads Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti in the 16th Assembly District race by less than four… Read More ›
Catharine Baker’s lashed back at Tim Sbranti for a mailer she says purposefully misleads voters in the 16th Assembly District. ASSEMBLY | DISTRICT 16 | Spirit of Democracy California, a right-wing independent expenditure committee believes the battleground 16th Assembly District… Read More ›
Stan “Data” Dobbs has strong support from Hayward school board members John Taylor and Lisa Brunner. HAYWARD SCHOOL BOARD | The contract likely approved Wednesday evening by the Hayward school board for appointed interim superintendent Stan “Data” Dobbs may equal… Read More ›
HAYWARD | The Hayward School Board chose its former Chief Financial Officer Stanley Dobbs as the district’s finalist for superintendent this Saturday. He would replace Dr. Donald Evans who announced his departure from the district last month to become Berkeley’s… Read More ›
Hayward’s Next Supe? Stan “Data” Dobbs. HAYWARD//SCHOOL DISTRICT | As the man in charge of the Hayward school district’s purse strings, Stan Dobbs appeared both aloof and confrontational when he stood before the district’s school board. Dobbs often clashed with the argumentative… Read More ›
HAYWARD//EDUCATION | The Hayward Unified School District’s recently departed former chief financial officer may be a front runner for its vacant superintendent’s job and could be named interim as early as this Saturday, sources tell The Citizen. Stan Dobbs, who resigned… Read More ›
