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FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.
Sep 16, 2026
The email to district parents said people in the area have been creating and sharing unsettling or threatening AI-generated or digitally altered images of the character. In some cases, the images and videos have referenced specific schools, locations, communities or individuals.
Sep 16, 2026
Four shuttered Santa Rosa City Schools sites have been declared surplus and are now formally ready to go through the disposition process, where the district has been advised to favor long-term leases.
Sep 16, 2026
California’s largest teachers union sued state officials Tuesday over nearly $6 billion in withheld school funding, alleging that budget actions approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature violated the state’s constitutional education funding guarantee.
Sep 16, 2026
A Bay Area school district being sued in federal court for denying parents their request to opt out of LGBTQ+ curriculum on religious grounds has now agreed to allow students to skip such lessons, federal court records show.
Sep 16, 2026
It remains illegal in California for a school district to force teachers and other staff to alert parents about their child’s gender identity, but parents must be told when they ask about it, a judge ruled Tuesday in a widely watched case dealing with parental rights.
Sep 16, 2026
A group of Jewish parents and teachers are celebrating a recent court ruling that will allow them to refile a lawsuit against the United Teachers Los Angeles union and creators of the controversial “liberated” ethnic studies curriculum that some Los Angeles Unified teachers use.
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