Challenge of Newsom’s bid to strip schools superintendent of power faces difficult odds

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION candidate Sonja Shaw has called the new law that strips the next state superintendent’s authority to manage the California Department of Education an unconstitutional “sweeping power grab.”  

On Fox, X and elsewhere, she has vowed to sue Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to prevent future governors from hiring a new education director who would take over the department she wants to run.