Education Headlines

• Bakersfield City SD’s idea of year-round school brings mixed reactions

  The Bakersfield City School District’s decision to explore a year-round calendar has left stakeholders with mixed feelings about the idea.

  March 18, 2019

• Arroyo Grande High School cranes in a new music building — one piece at a time

  A loud ruckus from the music building on the Arroyo Grande High School campus drew the watching eyes of hundreds of students Thursday.

  March 18, 2019

• EdSource: Linda Darling-Hammond becomes president of California’s State Board of Education

  Former Stanford professor and leading researcher Linda Darling-Hammond was selected to be president of California’s State Board of Education by fellow board members on Thursday.

  March 18, 2019

• Fensterwald: Push underway to lower the barrier for school districts to pass a parcel tax

  Confident that a new Democratic supermajority in the California Legislature will back them, two state senators are proposing to ask voters in 2020 to make it easier for school district voters to pass a parcel tax.

  March 18, 2019

• Women were missing from school history lessons. An effort in California would change that –

  The year was 1972. In a high school classroom in Northern California, a student asked his teacher a timely question: What is the women’s movement?

  March 18, 2019

• This Rialto principal was recognized as a ‘Breakfast Hero’ for providing students early-morning meals

  This month, No Kid Hungry, a national anti-hunger campaign, named Hughbanks Elementary School Principal Monte Stewart one of five national breakfast heroes for adopting a program that offers healthy breakfasts to hundreds of Rialto students.

  March 15, 2019