EdVoice, an education reform advocacy group underwritten by wealthy California philanthropists, was a big loser in this month's primary election.
The EdVoice candidate for state superintendent of schools, Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, ran third in a 12-candidate battle, meaning she won't be in the November runoff between retired school administrator Larry Aceves and Assemblyman Tom Torlakson, D-Pittsburg.
EdVoice's arch-rival in California's perennial education policy battles, the California Teachers Association, backed Torlakson.
While EdVoice may be down, it's not yet out of the fight and has turned its attention to defeating a bill that would impose more regulation on, and therefore perhaps retard the growth of, charter schools, which EdVoice has championed.
Assembly Bill 1950 is being carried by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, with support from school unions, has cleared the Assembly and is awaiting a hearing in the Senate Education Committee next week. Romero chairs that committee.
EdVoice has dispatched blast emails denouncing Brownley's bill, calling it "an assault on innovative public schools" that will harass charter school administrators and teachers with new reporting requirements and performance standards, and is urging charter school sympathizers to mount protests.
The bill's supporters contend that it's needed to weed out charter schools that are ineffective.
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