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May 29, 2026
The Santa Paula Unified School District has suspended several Isbell Middle School students for allegedly using smart glasses to take photos and create sexually explicit images of female classmates using artificial intelligence.
May 29, 2026
The Marin County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against a San Rafael High School teacher accused of having an illegal relationship with a minor. Kevin Eric Allen, 35, of San Rafael is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a child under age 18. The girl was 17 at the time of the offense, according to the criminal complaint.
May 29, 2026
On the one hand, Sonoma County’s largest district continues to take actions geared to digging out of a multimillion dollar deficit that earlier this calendar year raised the real threat of insolvency and state takeover. On the other, a majority of trustees voted Wednesday, May 27, to approve a $76,000 raise for the district’s top fiscal administrator, whose yearlong interim contract is up at the end of next month.
May 29, 2026
The Central Unified School District in Fresno amended board policies this week to close loopholes that allowed a district official to moonlight for a political action committee that he cofounded and that has been donating to local campaigns, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
May 29, 2026
Modesto City Schools Superintendent Vanessa Buitrago has written a letter to local education and policy leaders asking to collaborate on solutions for the cost of healthcare for employees.
May 29, 2026
Oakland’s top education officials insisted this week that the district’s finances have improved so significantly in the past few months — or weeks — that the city should celebrate what is a moment of “real pride.”
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