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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.

Jan 17, 2025

Four new scenarios created by the district as alternatives to their first recommended closure model were presented at Montgomery High School on Monday and Piner High School on Tuesday.

Jan 17, 2025

The Sonoma Valley Unified School District board of trustees unanimously approved a contract on Wednesday, Jan. 15, that will provide a 2% raise to all district employees and an additional payment to teachers who are teaching overenrolled classes.

Jan 17, 2025

Classified staff is the only unit still without an annual raise — the certificated teachers union, district staff, managers and administration all received increases in 2023.

Jan 17, 2025

San Luis Coastal Unified School District’s transitional kindergarten could be on the chopping block, administrators warned a crowded board room Tuesday night.

Jan 17, 2025

Parents in the Tamalpais Union High School District have launched an online petition asking the district to “hit the pause button” on its new ethnics studies course to allow for more review and changes.

Jan 17, 2025

Students at Madera Unified middle schools this week began locking up their smart phones while on campus as part of a new policy aiming to curb classroom distractions.

Jan 17, 2025

Staff members of Natomas Unified School District were notified July 15 that the network shutdown they had been dealing with for several weeks was due to a potential hacker.

Jan 17, 2025

An Oakland Unified School District teacher “created a hostile environment” for Jewish students by hanging anti-Semitic posters near and inside their classroom in fall 2023, according to the results of an investigation released this week.

Jan 17, 2025

California schools and students are facing a long road to recovery as wildfires in the Los Angeles area damage dozens of school buildings and take hundreds of thousands of children out of the classroom.

Jan 17, 2025

Schools across Southern California impacted by devastating wildfires this month are working to ensure students, families and staff are safe and have basic needs — all while attempting to restart instruction and as-normal-as-possible school routines after school closures.

Jan 17, 2025

Aleeza Siddique, 15, was in a Spanish class earlier this year in her Northern California high school when a lesson about newscasts got derailed by her school’s internet filter.

Jan 17, 2025

The Pasadena Unified School District will reopen campuses in phases over a two-week stretch with the goal of returning all students to in-person learning by the end of January as it begins recovery from the Eaton fire.

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