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Apr 25, 2024
Dubbed the Halal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California Legislature would require schools to provide kosher or halal meals if more than 5% of their students request such.
Apr 25, 2024
A Napa County Superior Court judge confirmed Wednesday, after hearing attorney arguments, that the court will move to strike down a second effort to prevent the Mayacamas Countywide Middle School from opening.
Apr 25, 2024
This year Summit School, based out of the same campus as Rock Tree Sky, has about 185 students. Almost all of that growth comes directly from a unique arrangement with Rock Tree Sky.
Apr 25, 2024
Days after her arrest, Trustee AngelAnn Flores' seat on the dais was empty at Tuesday night's Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting.
Apr 25, 2024
Billions of federal dollars to cushion the impacts of COVID-19 have been exhausted, school closures during the pandemic magnified declines in enrollment, chronic absenteeism has worsened, inflation is increasing operating costs, and the state budget is plagued by a huge deficit.
Apr 25, 2024
On Wednesday, April 24, the office filed a motion asking the court to make a final decision in its lawsuit against the district’s parent notification policy and is trying to block a revised policy approved by the school board in March.
Apr 25, 2024
Unionized teachers from Downtown College Prep, a charter school system in San Jose, issued a vote of no confidence in CEO Pete Settelmayer after he announced budget cuts and a school closure earlier this year.
Apr 25, 2024
In the spring of 2003, when Delaine Eastin was running California’s public schools, she faced a group of lawmakers trying to close a massive budget shortfall. Eastin had answers. It was her last day in office, but she served them up with the fire of someone who had just stepped into the job.
Apr 25, 2024
California law requires K-12 students to receive comprehensive sexual health and HIV-prevention education. Should that education include information about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers?
Apr 25, 2024
The incident in an unincorporated neighborhood near South L.A. is adding fuel to a debate over campus safety in the nation’s second-largest school system and the reduced role of school police.
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