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Aug 13, 2026
Pasadena Unified School District trustees spent the end of the last school year fending off calls that they had been maneuvering behind closed doors to push a school merger plan through. The process unraveled with acknowledgements that some discussion around reshaping the district would be needed given the financial and enrollment realities facing PUSD.
Aug 13, 2026
With the Petaluma City Schools traditional-calendar school year kicking off Wednesday morning, district leaders were glad to have announced the restoration of more than a dozen staff positions ahead of time — including all of the district’s elementary and junior high school student advisors, a school therapist and arts teachers.
Aug 13, 2026
Piner High School is now the home of a new, two-story approximately $24.4 million classroom building that will house more than 300 seventh- and eighth-graders for the first time.
Aug 13, 2026
This school year, for the first time, comes a statewide crackdown in classrooms on cell phones in California. Some schools across the state already started adopting these policies last school year, and some even had existing restrictions on the books.
Aug 13, 2026
Student enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with many districts throughout California, has been in a steady state of freefall — a trend with potentially dire consequences if it continues.
Aug 13, 2026
The Twin Rivers Unified school board voted Tuesday night to issue notices of violation to Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools for failing to file financial audits for the 2024-25 school year.
Aug 13, 2026
Los Angeles Unified School District students returned to school Wednesday amid lingering concerns about immigration enforcement and environmental safety, with district officials reassuring families that campuses were safe and ready for the new school year.
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