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Jul 28, 2025
IAQ Distribution has settled a civil lawsuit brought by the Stockton Unified School District for $3.75 million, stemming from an air filter deal that an audit report described as potentially fraudulent.
Jul 28, 2025
School meal funding in San Luis Obispo County could be at risk after Congress approved a behemoth reconciliation bill that could yank food benefits away from millions of Americans.
Jul 28, 2025
Assembly Bill 84, authored by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, would increase oversight of charter schools, especially nonclassroom-based programs such as Cabrillo.
Jul 28, 2025
The Galt Police Department on Friday took into custody Carmela Baker, a former treasurer for the Liberty Ranch High School Athletics Booster Club, and charged her with felony embezzlement after an investigation into $200,000 missing from the club.
Jul 28, 2025
During the first two weeks of each school year, Joaquin Delgado said, he shows his Galileo High School ethnic-studies students an image of a student holding a clenched fist in the air, accompanied by the words “Know History, Know Self.”
Jul 28, 2025
The Trump administration will release $5.5 billion in federal education funding that was previously withheld from public schools in 33 states, including an estimated $939 million that California schools were relying on for their 2025-26 academic year.
Jul 28, 2025
California’s five-year-old, multi-billion-dollar Expanded Learning Opportunities Program has allowed school districts and charter schools to offer a vast array of enrichment activities outside the regular school day.
Jul 28, 2025
Fishing. Scuba diving. Engine repair. Modeling. Archery. Aviation. These are just a few of the more than 100 summer camps that the Fresno Unified School District offers its students each week under the umbrellas of adventure, college and career, creative arts, sports and STEM.
Jul 28, 2025
As California intensifies its fight with the Trump Administration, the race for the state’s top schools job is becoming ever more crowded. Today, former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon formally entered the race to succeed Tony Thurmond as State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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