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Dec 19, 2025
After years of controversy and environmental testing, Mill Valley trustees unanimously approved a plan to use about $95 million in Measure G bond money to renovate the middle school.
Dec 19, 2025
The Chico Unified School District board voted unanimously to increase its monthly stipend from $400 to $1,250 at its Wednesday night meeting.
Dec 19, 2025
St. Hope Public Schools and its charter authorizer, Sacramento City Unified School District, have been on rocky terms for more than a year.
Dec 19, 2025
Facing a budget deficit and declining enrollment, South Bay Union School District says it might close two more elementary schools in the next six years, months after deciding to shutter another.
Dec 19, 2025
In the diverse Inland Empire, more students are finding that school meals can be delicious, nutritious and authentic to their culture.
Dec 19, 2025
The Visalia Unified School District’s public board meeting in March was a festive and upbeat affair with a performance by a student chamber music group and a commendation for a high school cheer squad.
Dec 19, 2025
Starting in 2020, survivors of childhood sex abuse in California were given a powerful tool to confront their abusers and the institutions that employed them.
Dec 19, 2025
A Lake Tahoe school district is caught between California and Nevada's competing policies on transgender student athletes, a dispute that's poised to reorder where the district's students compete.
Dec 19, 2025
A former teacher-turned-principal-turned-researcher, José Medina spreads his message about validating and acknowledging a student’s native language and expression on social media and in schools across the country.
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