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Oct 06, 2025
The Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Saturday to decide how to fill the Area 2 seat vacated after former Trustee AngelAnn Flores was removed following a felony conviction.
Oct 06, 2025
Some school districts sign contracts to gather children every morning in cars or transport vans; in other cases parents pay individually for a driver to arrive, Uber-like, and ferry their child off to class.
Oct 06, 2025
A $4 billion-a-year initiative created to combat pandemic-related learning loss and expand the regular school day in California is also addressing another issue — recruiting teachers.
Oct 06, 2025
California taxpayers send hundreds of millions of dollars every year to Learn4Life, one of the state’s largest charter school networks, with 65 locations that serve about 20,000 students each year.
Oct 06, 2025
A new school year brings an array of feelings: excitement, anticipation, nervousness, homesickness. Maria Caballero Magaña, a K-8 school counselor in Oxnard, knows these feelings well — familiar companions as students return to campus.
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