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Dec 09, 2025
The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints from students and families.
Dec 09, 2025
San Dieguito students and administrators are in an uproar after Canyon Crest Academy’s high school foundation rented out its school gym as a commercial filming location for an adult game show last weekend that featured racist, profane, sexually suggestive, religiously offensive and other inappropriate content.
Dec 09, 2025
As a young boy in the 1970s, Eliseo Gamiño would watch fieldworkers frantically sprint along the aqueduct near the San Luis Reservoir in desperate attempts to evade immigration authorities.
Dec 09, 2025
San Jose’s Branham High School is investigating an antisemitic incident involving students forming a “human swastika” on campus, according to a statement by Principal Beth Silbergeld.
Dec 09, 2025
California school districts were bracing for their mental health grants to be cut at the end of the month, but a recent court ruling could force the Trump administration to temporarily release remaining funds used for school social workers and counselors.
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