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Sep 24, 2026
Next month, Fortuna Union High School District’s board will vote on a plan to compensate families from Bridgeville for travel expenses accrued during the community’s loss of bus service.
Sep 24, 2026
A nearly $11 million federal grant announced Tuesday will pay for construction of a hangar and educational facility in eastern Kern County to support local training in aviation maintenance and related careers.
Sep 24, 2026
Resolution 2627-06, proposed by trustee Caitlin Quinn and discussed at the board’s Sept. 15 meeting, would prohibit “new wireless telecommunication installations on the district’s school grounds” as well as “any extension or renewal of existing ground leases for the maintenance of wireless telecommunication installations on district property.”
Sep 24, 2026
Former California Secretary of Education David Long is seeking a court order to unseal records from a state audit into Val Verde Unified’s partnership with a Chinese boarding school, alleging Riverside County education officials suppressed records and sought to blame him for suspected misconduct.
Sep 24, 2026
When young students miss school, the days absent can quickly add up and impact student learning. About 24% of California’s youngest students were chronically absent in 2024-25, higher than the 19% chronic absenteeism rate for all students.
Sep 24, 2026
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton views California’s low third grade reading and math scores as a crisis and an indictment of the state’s “catastrophically failing system.”
Sep 24, 2026
Steve Hilton’s education reforms are a trip back to the future. The Republican candidate for California governor has called for abolishing teacher tenure, reviving an issue that has been taboo for a decade in the state after bruising battles in court and the Legislature.
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