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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.
Jan 16, 2025
Increased student attendance is benefiting teachers and pupils of the Lucerne Valley Unified School District. “Average Daily Attendance” at Lucerne Valley Unified School District increased by 1.78% during the first part of the 2024-25 school year.
Jan 16, 2025
The record 205 school districts that passed construction bonds in November will spend 2025 vying for matching money from a $10 billion state bond that will meet only a small portion of the demand for financial help.
Jan 16, 2025
San Francisco schools owe some of the most vulnerable district students thousands of hours in legally required special education services they should have received last semester.
Jan 15, 2025
Valley of the Moon Teachers Association is planning a one-day strike on Thursday, alleging unfair labor practices by the Sonoma Valley Unified School District in negotiations to establish a new one-year contract.
Jan 15, 2025
Al Mijares, a former elected Orange County Superintendent of Schools who led the county’s Department of Education during the COVID-19 pandemic, died last Thursday at the age of 71 after a battle with cancer. Mijares served as the County’s superintendent for over a decade and in the final years of his tenure clashed repeatedly with the OC Board of Education over policy.
Jan 15, 2025
Advocates have called upon school leaders to take action to protect immigrants in the wake of an extensive operation by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Kern County last week. Immigrant families have been afraid to send their students to school in the wake of the extensive operation, some opting to keep them home.
Jan 15, 2025
Days before a Kentucky judge blocked federal rules protecting LGBTQ students last week, California Assemblymember Kate Sanchez proposed similar changes to California law. On Jan. 6 she introduced her first bill of the session, which would ban transgender females from playing on girls’ sports teams with the California Interscholastic Federation.
Jan 15, 2025
Students from two burned-down Los Angeles elementary schools will resume classes Wednesday in new locations in neighborhoods near fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades as employee unions estimate that at least 150 district staff, including many teachers, have lost their homes.
Jan 14, 2025
Nearly 10 years after a decades-long ban on bilingual education was repealed, California is still lagging on providing enough dual language education to its large population of English learners according to a recently released report.
Jan 14, 2025
The Redlands school board on Tuesday, Jan. 14, will discuss a proposed policy to ban flags other than the U.S. and California flags and a potential change in district policy on school-sponsored events.
Jan 14, 2025
Southern California Edison’s public safety power shutoffs have led to the closing of two schools in the San Bernardino City Unified School District on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
Jan 14, 2025
The San Luis Obispo County Office of Education is seeking community feedback on a plan to reduce school districts’ risk to natural and human-caused disasters.
Jan 14, 2025
Trustees tentatively agreed to switch from a flat tax — where every property owner pays the same rate — to a per-square-foot-tax based on the developed portion of the property. The measure requires approval from two-thirds of voters.
Jan 14, 2025
West Contra Costa Unified School District is on the cusp of a new and uncertain era following the retirement of its superintendent, Chris Hurst, who stepped down in December after just over three years on the job.
Jan 14, 2025
Rural school districts — already beset with financial struggles — are furiously scrambling to save a century-old funding source that Republican lawmakers last month eliminated from the federal budget.
Jan 13, 2025
Laguna Beach Unified School District board members are still on the hunt for an interim superintendent after a former district principal declined the role last month as transparency concerns mounted over the process.
Jan 13, 2025
The cybersecurity breach that affected San Diego Unified School District late last month may have involved some students’ personally identifiable information, the district told families in an update Friday.
Jan 13, 2025
California has had a racial imbalance between its teacher workforce and its student population for years, with a majority Hispanic student population being taught by teachers who are mostly white. That could be changing, as more people of Hispanic heritage enroll in college teacher preparation programs in the state.
Jan 13, 2025
Until now, some California school boards have enacted policies that required teachers to notify families if a child identifies as transgender, nonbinary, or if the student wishes to go by another name in class.
Jan 13, 2025
The Los Angeles-area fires have damaged — or destroyed — multiple schools, leaving parents wondering when and how their children can safely resume their studies. Many schools in Los Angeles county are closed for now. However, as of Jan. 1, a new state law bans schools from enacting these policies
Jan 13, 2025
California school districts would receive $2.5 billion through a small cost-of-living increase, plus additional funding to train math and reading coaches, expand summer and after-school programs, and help launch the state’s Master Plan for Career Education in the proposed 2025-26 state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom released Friday.
Jan 10, 2025
Past and present school board leaders are raising concerns that the newly elected Laguna Beach Unified School board majority potentially violated California’s open meeting law – the Brown Act – during the process of hiring a new superintendent.
Jan 10, 2025
Fires, ash and power outages continue to push communities throughout Los Angeles away from their homes and into uncertainty — all while more than 12% of the state’s schools, including nearly 800 in Los Angeles Unified, have had to stop in-person instruction, and, despite incurring damages, extend essential services to students and their families.
Jan 09, 2025
A slew of SLO County districts will be forced to cut their budgets in 2025 due to declining enrollment, a multi-billion-dollar state budget deficit and the expiration of COVID relief monies.
Jan 09, 2025
The Protect Girls’ Sports Act, introduced by Orange County Republican Assemblymember Kate Sanchez, would require organizations overseeing high school sports, including the California Interscholastic Federation, to only allow individuals who were assigned female at birth to participate in female sports.
Jan 09, 2025
The Mill Valley School District, flush with more than 43% of its budget in reserves only a year ago, now faces a $7.3 million budget deficit that could force a series of cuts and possibly layoffs early this year.
Jan 09, 2025
As students returned to school on Monday, Jan. 6, following their holiday break, officials for the Los Angeles Unified School District highlighted new policies and services the district plans to roll out or expand on during the second half of the school year.
Jan 09, 2025
Last January, Bob Nelson announced his plans to retire as superintendent of the Fresno Unified School District at the end of the 2023-24 school year. One year after that announcement, California’s third-largest school district remains without a permanent leader.
Jan 09, 2025
After a yearslong fight to remodel an East Bay school that was deteriorating and infested with mold and asbestos, the West Contra Costa Unified School District found enough funds not just to remodel, but fully rebuild the school.
Jan 09, 2025
School districts across Los Angeles County have announced plans to close all or some schools as multiple fires spread across the Los Angeles area. In total, nearly two dozen school districts have announced full or partial closures.
Jan 09, 2025
With a projected budget shortfall of $95 million next year, Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) latest plan to close schools would trim costly overhead. The district has lost over 2,200 students since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jan 08, 2025
Marco Villegas was recognized as one of 25 Superintendents to Watch across the country by the National School Public Relations Association.
Jan 08, 2025
Three major wildfires, all propelled by high winds overnight, are burning in Los Angeles County. As a result, at least 22 school districts have canceled classes Wednesday, Jan. 8.
Jan 08, 2025
At least four schools are set to close at the end of the school year in the Santa Rosa City Schools district in an effort to save $11 million a year for the next two years and offset a deficit of at least $20 million.
Jan 08, 2025
Average teacher pay in California rose sharply again last school year, eclipsing six figures for the first time. Districts paid teachers an average of $101,084 in the 2023-24 school year, an increase of 6.2% from 2022-23, new state data show.
Jan 08, 2025
It’s that time again when I line up my predictions for the year only to see events conspire to knock them down like bowling pins. As you recall, I lay down my wager in fensters. You can, too, on a scale of 1 fenster — no way it’ll happen — to 5 – it’s bird-brain obvious (at least to you).
Jan 07, 2025
As a result of sales in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the self-funded state agency is making a contribution of $2.2 billion to K-12 schools, the CSU and UC systems and community colleges.
Jan 07, 2025
The Mill Valley School District, flush with more than 43% of its budget in reserves only a year ago, now faces a $7.3 million budget deficit that could force a series of cuts and possibly layoffs early this year.
Jan 07, 2025
In early November, the district launched an “attendance marathon” to encourage schools to improve their student attendance. A “weekly attendance drawing” awards $1,000 to two schools that increased attendance over the previous week.
Jan 07, 2025
The Social Security Fairness Act, signed by President Joe Biden on Sunday, will increase retirement benefits for many educators and other public sector workers, including nearly 290,000 in California.
Jan 07, 2025
In Marty Supple’s automotive courses, students are elbow deep in car engines, sliding under half-open chassis and plugging away at what looks like tangles of wires in dashboards. These teens are getting high school and college credits, at the same time they’re earning above minimum wage as apprentices at nearby auto dealerships.
Jan 07, 2025
California is moving quickly to protect undocumented immigrant students — attending elementary schools through university campuses — as top officials Monday outlined steps to guide school leaders, inform parents and provide mental health support to anxious families.
Jan 07, 2025
The measure faces significant barriers in the California Legislature, where Democrats hold a supermajority, but it ensures the issue will continue to dominate public debate in a state that has sought to position itself as a champion for transgender rights.
Jan 07, 2025
California likely will not have a budget deficit next year, but incoming President Donald Trump’s agenda portends an uncertain road ahead for California’s budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday.
Jan 06, 2025
According to the release, the plan aims to help ease some of the challenges that the districts and others across the U.S. have faced for years, such as route cancellations, reduced bus availability and difficulty scheduling transportation for extracurricular activities.
Jan 06, 2025
Stockton Unified School District will recruit teachers from outside of the United States as it looks to fill vacancies ahead of the 2025-2026 school year amid a national teacher shortage.
Jan 06, 2025
Classes for 48 infants, toddlers and preschoolers are in full swing at Sassarini Elementary School after the North Bay Children’s Center, which runs the programs, made several classroom improvements and outdoor play space renovations.
Jan 06, 2025
A grant of nearly $400,000 will allow Montgomery, Maria Carrillo and Santa Rosa high schools to expand their health care pathways programs and offer additional courses.
Jan 06, 2025
Valley Vista and Live Oak are set to form a new school starting next school year. But several Valley Vista families have already left.
Jan 06, 2025
The district is set to decide on which campuses it is closing likely at the end of February. The remaining schools will have until classes resume in August to transition students.
Jan 06, 2025
California public school students will get additional coursework on the harms of alcohol in 2025, thanks to a new law from a former lawmaker whose drunken driving arrest inspired her legislation.
Jan 06, 2025
Los Angeles Unified has settled a 3-year-old lawsuit with the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles over how much federal Title I funding low-income students within the archdiocese are entitled to receive.
Jan 06, 2025
Mariela’s eyes brightened when she saw the pair of pink sneakers. The 5-year-old transitional kindergarten student at Fresno Unified’s Jackson Elementary School had been coming to class wearing an outgrown pair of yellow slippers.
Jan 06, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Friday ordering state agencies to investigate the health impacts of ultra-processed foods and synthetic food dyes, and to increase access to healthy food, including in schools.
Jan 06, 2025
One week before she was sworn in as Gateway Unified’s newest school board member, Bobbie Simpson learned she had a phone message from a concerned constituent.
Jan 06, 2025
With the new calendar year comes some new laws for school districts across California, from banning book bans, to regulating homework - and adding topics like and the dangers of fentanyl to high school courses.
Jan 06, 2025
In the first months of the first Trump administration in 2017, a father in Los Angeles was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after dropping his 12-year-old daughter off at school.
Jan 06, 2025
A pair of bills in the Legislature — AB 49 and SB 48 — aim to keep federal agents from detaining undocumented students or their families on or near school property without a warrant.
Dec 20, 2024
San Francisco public and charter schools can now apply for ‘one-time, use-it-or-lose-it payments from The City of up to $150,000 for short-term emergency needs through the end of the school year.
Dec 20, 2024
At some schools, weapons seizures already outnumber last year's counts in just the first half of this school year.
Dec 20, 2024
Several months into fifth-grade, Meagen Reveles Kuntz realized her daughter, who requires special education services, had stagnated and even regressed in her academic progress.
Dec 20, 2024
Three guns — two loaded — have been found on Santa Rosa City Schools campuses since the school year began. Two were found within one week of each other.
Dec 20, 2024
Local advocates, police and district officials say increased gang involvement may be one factor why so many weapons are turning up on school campuses, and a community response is needed to address the issue.
Dec 20, 2024
A free event, “Dinner and Data,” will be held at 6 p.m. Jan. 14 on the Martin Luther King Jr. campus in Marin City. The night will showcase a newly launched online dashboard that displays everything from standardized test scores to attendance, enrollment and suspension figures.
Dec 19, 2024
A panel of reading experts has designated the tests that school districts can use to identify reading difficulties that kindergartners through second graders may have, starting next fall.
Dec 19, 2024
Elections officials acknowledged last week 108 ineligible voters — through no fault of their own — cast ballots in that race and that a special election would likely have to take place to correct the error.
Dec 19, 2024
Lower-income students and those in politically mixed – or “purple” – areas where parent pushback is more common often miss out on a comprehensive education on how government works and why it matters.
Dec 19, 2024
The committee went over rankings of each school according to their performance in 25 categories ranging from enrollment to diversity of students to physical makeup of the schools. The results will be used to help determine which schools will be closed.
Dec 19, 2024
The course, “Community and Consciousness,” will launch Jan. 8 for freshmen at the district’s five high schools. Parents, students and community members will be invited to monthly or twice-monthly feedback sessions beginning Jan. 16.
Dec 19, 2024
Two men who were allegedly sexually abused by a Santa Cruz teacher in the 1980s and 90s were awarded a combined $4.5 million in a settlement with Santa Cruz City Schools, according to a press release.
Dec 19, 2024
The Temecula school board voted to rescind two controversial policies after a state agency said they were participating in unfair labor practices.
Dec 19, 2024
In an election that concluded last week, 85% of voting members, who include principals and other mid-level administrators, chose to unionize.
Dec 18, 2024
Jeremy Jeffreys, who announced he was ending his candidacy in early October, was sworn in as a Placer Union High School District trustee Tuesday night.
Dec 18, 2024
Two parents who filed a lawsuit challenging Conejo Valley Unified School District’s sex education curriculum did not have the standing to sue, a California appeals court ruled earlier this month.
Dec 18, 2024
In its sixth town-hall style meeting Monday night, committee members were repeatedly interrupted by some of the 250 people in the audience who called for the district to think more creatively in solving its estimated $20 million a year budget deficit over the next two years.
Dec 18, 2024
Parents, teachers and students spoke for almost an hour Monday night during a meeting of Santa Rosa’s committee on school closures, with many favoring an alternative that would keep all the district’s high schools open.
Dec 18, 2024
Carissa Carrera, union president since 2017 and a CVUSD teacher since 2004, was placed on leave on Oct. 28 amid an investigation into allegations she "misused" district funds, though the Riverside County Sheriff's Department determined the claims were unfounded.
Dec 18, 2024
As the school district prepares to implement its ethnic studies class for fall 2025, Modesto City Schools’ board of education voted 5-2 to change the graduation requirements for incoming ninth-graders.
Dec 18, 2024
School districts in Stanislaus County are looking to the state and California educational associations for guidance as President-elect Donald Trump continues to threaten mass deportations of immigrants.
Dec 17, 2024
The alleged abuse between Erick Whiteside, 45, and at least eight victims took place over text conversations and at the ABLE Charter Schools campus, according to court documents.
Dec 17, 2024
Teachers in Guerneville’s elementary school district have failed to reach a new contract with their school board after 200-plus days of negotiations, prompting them to unanimously vote in favor of authorizing a strike.
Dec 17, 2024
When she raised the curtain on NorCal Arts, a Sacramento-based arts education organization in 2020, Michele Hillen-Noufer was hoping to bring that kind of transformative emotional power to young people, to enrich students’ lives with the magic of theater.
Dec 17, 2024
Could California schools become off-limits to all federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents? That is a new proposal in response to fears of arrests for deportation as President-elect Donald Trump's Inauguration Day nears.
Dec 16, 2024
A new study concludes that reducing the number of school systems in west Sonoma County from 11 to two doesn’t pencil out, at least as currently proposed.
Dec 16, 2024
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Friday, Dec. 13, to close Adele Harrison Middle School at the end of the 2024-25 school year and consolidate it with Altimira Middle School for the 2025-26 academic year.
Dec 16, 2024
Nine former Sacramento City Unified School District students are suing the district for allegedly allowing a sexually abusive substitute teacher to continue working in the district despite receiving dozens of documented complaints of misconduct from students, faculty and parents over two decades.
Dec 16, 2024
A federal investigation into the alleged rape of an 11-year-old girl in a restroom at a San Bernardino middle school has found that administrators failed to properly respond to and investigate the attack, which was recorded on video and posted online.
Dec 16, 2024
School closures have been relatively rare in California, with 50 to 80 sites closed each year out of more than 10,000 statewide, but that number is starting to skyrocket as districts across the state come to terms with unprecedented and enduring enrollment declines.
Dec 13, 2024
Trustees of the Tamalpais Union High School District said they will not tolerate the continuing decline in student scores following the 2023-24 state academic achievement tests.
Dec 13, 2024
In hopes of furthering efforts to improve student literacy, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education voted unanimously this week to assess the district’s strategies for teaching students how to read and to provide families with tools to help their children develop their literacy skills at home.
Dec 13, 2024
Nearly 1,400 San Francisco Unified School District employees are eligible for voluntary buyouts the school board approved this week in an effort to stave off the bankruptcy — and subsequent state takeover — of The City’s public-school system.
Dec 13, 2024
A Christian ministry that seeks to instill religious values in youngsters says Oakland schools are violating its youth group’s freedom of speech and religion by prohibiting it from holding after-school meetings on elementary school campuses while allowing secular organizations to meet with students.
Dec 13, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to grant $135 million to California school districts and state and local governments to help them switch to battery electric vehicles.
Dec 13, 2024
By the end of the Oakland school board meeting Wednesday night, officials made it clear: The district is currently headed for insolvency and the political will to address overspending and declining enrollment has yet to materialize.
Dec 12, 2024
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber is weighing in on a legal battle between the Greenfield Union School District and Kern County. The Greenfield Union School District claims the elections division allowed 108 people to vote in the wrong race.
Dec 12, 2024
Three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation mandating that high schools offer ethnic studies “upon appropriation,” starting in 2025-26. Now, those two words — upon appropriation — loom large.
Dec 12, 2024
On December 10, the Santa Barbara Unified School District reaffirmed its commitment to keeping all students safe, particularly LGBTQ+ and undocumented students, ahead of an incoming presidential administration that is notorious for its intolerance.
Dec 11, 2024
The sizzling sound of fries hitting hot oil drowned out the rain on a cold November day, as Rio Linda and Foothill High School students cooked up a storm.
Dec 11, 2024
Twin Rivers Unified School District plans to build workforce housing for its employees who are struggling to find affordable, well-maintained rental units within the community they work, district leaders said Tuesday.
Dec 11, 2024
More graduates in California and nationwide will walk across the stage to receive their high school diplomas in the spring of 2025 than in more than a decade — and more than in decades to come.
Dec 11, 2024
The Kern County Board of Education is set on Dec. 17 to hear a pair of presentations — one on the historical basis for displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and one on the legal grounds for being able to do so.
Dec 10, 2024
This summer the district had projected it would have a $176 million unrestricted deficit. Now officials say they have found some savings to bring that number down by leaving vacant jobs unfilled and encouraging more families to submit household income forms.
Dec 10, 2024
California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. But eight years after repeal, California schools have yet to recover.
Dec 09, 2024
Calistoga Joint Unified and St. Helena Unified are basic aid or community funded school districts while Napa Valley Unified depends on a combination of state aid and local property taxes.
Dec 09, 2024
A former Stockton Unified School District director has filed a civil complaint against his ex-employer over allegations that the district punished him when he "refused to participate in the financial corruption and abuse running rampant."
Dec 09, 2024
The district is spending at least $9,000, not including expenses, to send 10 people to the annual California School Board Association conference in Southern California.
Dec 09, 2024
Petaluma City Schools may face up to $2 million in budget cuts in the coming school year and is seeking community input on how to address the issue, according to a community message.
Dec 09, 2024
The San Diego Unified School Board is weighing recommendations to build 1,000 income-restricted apartments on five of its properties across the city, with a goal of housing 10% of its employees within the next decade.
Dec 09, 2024
A California lawmaker has proposed legislation to limit immigration officers’ access to schools and day care facilities in hopes of making schools a safe haven for immigrant children during the upcoming Trump administration, KQED reported.
Dec 09, 2024
California has banned bilingual education on and off since the 1800s. The state is now 8 years into allowing it again but still hasn’t managed to get all that many kids into good programs.
Dec 09, 2024
Now, students across California will have a chance to learn about Cambodian Americans and other Asian communities through the Southeast Asian Studies Model Curriculum, which is the first of its kind in the country.
Dec 06, 2024
Santa Rosa City Schools is closing at least four schools at the end of the school year, one of the only options proposed so far to address anticipated deficits of up to $30 million.
Dec 06, 2024
All renovation projects are outlined in the district’s master facilities plan, including the $61 million plan to update the district offices bring it into code compliance. That includes updates to plumbing, lighting and safety and security.
Dec 06, 2024
Sonoma Valley Unified School District will be required to pay $100,000 as part of a settlement involving a former teacher who claimed they were unlawfully suspended and forced to quit because of their race and a disability.
Dec 06, 2024
The Mill Valley School District is restructuring its oversight committee for $194 million in bond fund spending. The changes, announced to committee members last month, include new bylaws that establish staggered terms.
Dec 06, 2024
Last December, Pedro Martinez was released after a jury acquitted him of charges of sexually assaulting children at a Hesperia elementary school. But Martinez wants more than just his freedom, he wants justice for the damage done to his life and his family.
Dec 05, 2024
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued guidance Wednesday for public institutions, including K-12 schools and colleges and universities, on how to follow state laws that limit participation in federal immigration enforcement activities.
Dec 05, 2024
California needs to mandate bilingual education in districts with significant numbers of English learners and invest much more to support districts to offer it, according to a new report released Thursday.
Dec 05, 2024
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the United Teachers Los Angeles and the organization that created a controversial ethnic studies curriculum adopted by at least two dozen school districts in California.
Dec 05, 2024
Candidates for school board seats in Sacramento County raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund their campaigns in 2024. In six of the 11 races for school board seats, the better-funded candidate pulled ahead.
Dec 04, 2024
In what appears to be a reversal, the Salinas Union High School District has announced the sudden departure of former Superintendent Dan Burns, who the district recently appointed to a three-year special assignment role starting in October.
Dec 04, 2024
Local parents' newly proposed policy, which began last summer and grew to include educators and administrators, would ban all student use of cell phones or similar devices throughout the entire Petaluma City Schools district, regardless of grade.
Dec 04, 2024
A Sacramento jury found Folsom Cordova Unified School District responsible for a disabled student’s repeated experience of child-on-child sexual abuse on a school bus. The district has been ordered to pay the family $1.7 million in damages.
Dec 04, 2024
A former San Diego Unified administrator who alleged she was demoted in retaliation for rejecting sexual advances by the district’s former superintendent, Lamont Jackson, sued both the district and Jackson on Monday.
Dec 04, 2024
Amid fear of mass deportations under the incoming Trump administration, a state lawmaker wants to make all California schools and child care centers safe havens for immigrant children by passing legislation that would limit immigration officers’ access to school grounds.
Dec 04, 2024
Conflicts between parents, teachers and school leaders over parental rights policies focusing on LGBTQ+ students, limitations on teaching about race and racism, and book bans have come with a cost — both socially and financially.
Dec 03, 2024
It is important to have a “wait and see” attitude, said Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko, who has served in the role and headed the county office of education since 1997.
Dec 03, 2024
In a presentation by SMMUSD Director of Student Services Dr. Frank Dussan, the SMMUSD board discussed the proposed updates on mobile communication devices, using language recommended by the California School Boards Association and the implementation of an “Away for the Day” policy when it comes to phones.
Dec 03, 2024
As chronic absences have steadily decreased in California schools, the rate among Native American students remains consistently higher. Chronic absence is defined as missing 10% or more of students’ expected attendance, whether for excused or unexcused reasons.
Dec 02, 2024
Jen Chandler, one of the organizers, said the event, the association’s biggest fundraiser of the year, has a profit target of $100,000
Dec 02, 2024
Marin schools will receive nearly $1.2 million in the latest round of state grants from the K12 Strong Workforce Program, county educators said.
Dec 02, 2024
The district’s trustees voted unanimously this month to award a nearly $800,000 architectural design contract for the project to Prunuske Chatham Inc.
Dec 02, 2024
The state education department last week released a bunch of new data that describes how students and schools fared this most recent school year.
Dec 02, 2024
Had you sat by Alizé Satberry a few years ago at Kearny High School or Herbert Hoover High School or one of several charters she attended, you might have noticed that her dresses were a few years out of style.
Dec 02, 2024
A South Bay school district is tightening its grip on how educators can discuss gender and sexuality with young students after a transitional kindergarten teacher was placed on leave last month for discussions about gender identity in class.
Dec 02, 2024
A law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom mandates every school district in the state devise a plan for campus cellphone bans or restrictions by July 2026.
Nov 27, 2024
While schools in the Bay Area and across the state are seeing more students graduate and attend class, academic performance among students remains stagnant nearly five years after the pandemic.
Nov 27, 2024
Moody’s Ratings has downgraded two Sonoma Valley Unified School District bond credit ratings, stating that the district has approximately $163 million in outstanding debts and that its diminished general fund balance leaves it with less financial flexibility.
Nov 27, 2024
Inspections of 18 California schools by the State Auditor’s Office found significant maintenance deficiencies and safety risks on some of the campuses, according to the report, “Custodial Staffing and Cleanliness Standards,” released last week.
Nov 27, 2024
Educators around the country are bracing for upheaval, whether or not the president-elect follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally.
Nov 26, 2024
Born and raised in the agricultural foothills of Tulare County in California’s Central Valley, Greg Salcedo attended the only K-8 school and high school serving his rural town of about 3,000 people, where everything seemed out of reach — backpacks and notebooks, teachers and administrators and, in particular, school counselors and social workers.
Nov 26, 2024
Vandals broke into a South Los Angeles elementary school for the sixth time since July over the weekend, causing an estimated $115,000 in damages and adding to a steady toll of recent losses due to theft and vandalism in the L.A. Unified School District.
Nov 25, 2024
Seventy-one years is a long time to wait for renovations, but the El Rancho High School community only has to wait five more months to get a first look at part of a $200 million project, officials said this week.
Nov 25, 2024
Novack said she is working with the coaches to establish safety and ethics guidelines for AI; determine how the technology can be used to increase efficiency and productivity for staff; and determine how to prevent bias and misinformation.
Nov 25, 2024
A key figure in the Redlands Unified School District sex abuse scandal alleges district officials breached her contract and unlawfully retaliated against her when they placed her on leave and tried to fire her amid federal and state investigations that revealed systemic failures by the district in reporting student sexual abuse.
Nov 25, 2024
Voters gave Southern California schools the go-ahead to spend billions of dollars to repair and upgrade campuses. With the vast majority of ballots tallied, most local school funding measures met or exceeded the 55% of votes required to pass.
Nov 25, 2024
The Los Angeles Unified School District showed strong gains in newly released state metrics and reached a record graduation rate, but overall academic performance fell well short of state learning goals.
Nov 25, 2024
The Riverside Unified School District has become the latest battleground over transgender athletes’ participation in sports after two female students filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a trans girl had ousted them from coveted spots on the cross-country team.
Nov 25, 2024
In an effort to fight the sexual exploitation of children, federal authorities will teach Los Angeles Unified School District students, staff and parents how to stay safe online.
Nov 22, 2024
Despite a new law, few California school districts appear to be telling state officials when they’ve suffered a major cyberattack and those that do report problems are turning down aid.
Nov 22, 2024
Thursday’s deluge forced several schools across the county to announce Friday closures, with additional closures confirmed early Friday.
Nov 22, 2024
District officials on Wednesday unveiled their “fiscal stabilization plan” to tackle annual deficits of more than $20 million, giving the public a chance to weigh in.
Nov 22, 2024
The California Department of Education released data on chronic absenteeism, academic achievement and graduation rates for the 2023-24 school year on Thursday.
Nov 22, 2024
California leaders outlined their plan to implement the state's new financial literacy graduation requirement for high schoolers on Thursday. In a virtual meeting Thursday, officials discussed efforts to ensure all public high school students have access to a stand-alone personal finance course by 2027.
Nov 22, 2024
California’s K-12 schools made progress in several areas last school year, including increasing graduation rates slightly, and reducing suspensions and the number of students who were chronically absent from school, according to the School Dashboard released Thursday.
Nov 22, 2024
California’s public school students are continuing to rebound from the pandemic, with more showing up for class, more graduating and fewer misbehaving at school, according to new data released today.
Nov 21, 2024
He has picked Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the department. But like many conservative politicians before him, Trump has called for dismantling the department altogether — a cumbersome task that likely would require action from Congress.
Nov 21, 2024
After months of discussion, Tamalpais Union High School District trustees have decided against ordering locking pouches for students’ cellphones.
Nov 21, 2024
Classes were held remotely Wednesday at Junipero Serra High School in Gardena after a fire by the school football field damaged a press box, bleachers and a portion of the athletic building.
Nov 21, 2024
The Riverside Unified School District violated two high school girls’ rights by ordering them to remove or conceal T-shirts opposing the practice of transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports, a lawsuit alleges.
Nov 21, 2024
With tax revenues from high-earning Californians rebounding in recent months, the Legislature’s nonpartisan fiscal adviser projects that the state budget remains “roughly balanced,” but spending growth is expected to drive increasing deficits in the years ahead.
Nov 21, 2024
On Tuesday, board members voted 3-2 to change executive contracts – adding language that now requires four out of five members of the school board to vote in favor of termination before the superintendent can be fired.
Nov 21, 2024
A high school student is accused of spreading child sexual abuse material of his ex-girlfriend, according to a recently filed lawsuit in the Sacramento Superior Court.
Nov 21, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is nominating Linda McMahon, a billionaire professional wrestling mogul and small-business champion with minimal schools experience, as secretary of Education.
Nov 21, 2024
Several Southern California teachers are facing disciplinary action after fervid anti-Trump outbursts made in the wake of the November election that rattled school communities and generated fierce debate over teachers’ rights to share their political views.
Nov 21, 2024
The Riverside Unified School District violated two high school girls’ rights by ordering them to remove or conceal T-shirts opposing the practice of transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports, a lawsuit alleges.
Nov 20, 2024
A Black employee at Tamalpais High School has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the school district violated state and federal laws by failing to notify him about a racist video that circulated in the school last fall.
Nov 20, 2024
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board members are looking to make it harder to fire Superintendent Alex Cherniss and to hand oversight responsibility of their controversial Universal Sports Institute to a charter school two weeks after the November election.
Nov 20, 2024
A high school student is accused of spreading child sexual abuse material of his ex-girlfriend, according to a recently filed lawsuit in the Sacramento Superior Court. Administrators at their school are also accused of knowing the video existed and not reporting the issue to authorities.
Nov 20, 2024
San Diego County and California leaders in K-12 public education are bracing for a second Donald Trump presidency that they say is likely to threaten federal funding for low-income, special-education and other vulnerable students, erode protections for LGBTQ+ students and promote particular ideas of patriotism in schools.
Nov 20, 2024
The head of an education technology startup that created a highly touted chatbot for the Los Angeles school system has been arrested and charged with fraud. Federal prosecutors, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, accused Joanna Smith-Griffin of defrauding investors and charged her with securities fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Nov 19, 2024
Clovis Unified’s closely contested $400 million Measure A school bond seems to have sealed a come-from-behind win with the latest ballot count update Monday afternoon, according to the district’s superintendent.
Nov 19, 2024
Kenneth Wayne Price was a campus safety supervisor at Tamalpais High School in October 2023 when he was badly injured trying to break up a fight between Black and white students, injuries that still cause him severe pain.
Nov 19, 2024
The parents of a former student of a San Jose charter school and six families in a wealthy Bay Area high school district have filed separate lawsuits charging “rampant” civil rights violations resulting from bullying, taunting, ostracism and other forms of antisemitic conduct.
Nov 19, 2024
Bracing for the return of President-elect Donald Trump, the Los Angeles school board is moving quickly to reaffirm the nation’s second-largest school system as a sanctuary for immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community and to propose a new high school course delving into current political events.
Nov 18, 2024
Amid a decade of declining enrollment at Valley Vista Elementary School, and years marked by mold, flooding and inadequate facilities at Live Oak Charter School, the two Petaluma schools are on a path to merge next school year as a Waldorf-based institution.
Nov 18, 2024
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees seems poised to close Adele Harrison Middle School, although the board ultimately determined at its meeting Thursday that more information is needed before a decision can be made.
Nov 18, 2024
The Marin County Office of Education allocates about $42 million annually in federal funds toward a variety of initiatives and mandated programs at 17 public K-12 school districts, said Breean Brown, an assistant superintendent.
Nov 18, 2024
The last person to take the mic during public comment at the most recent Cupertino Union school board meeting came with an admonishment: Respect the families you are serving, she advised teachers and administrators.
Nov 18, 2024
Oakland student Hannah Lau said she only discovered there were elevated lead levels in her school’s drinking water this year through her teacher. There wasn’t an announcement from the principal, nor was there an assembly to notify students.
Nov 18, 2024
After serving in a nearly two-month interim role, Terry Walker is now the permanent superintendent of the Adelanto Elementary School District. Adelanto Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Walker as superintendent during a regular school board meeting.
Nov 18, 2024
This map collected data from both the California State Water Resources Control Board (from Jan. 1, 2017 to Sept. 24, 2020) and several districts that conducted their own water testing, such as Oakland Unified, which recently published 2024 data.
Nov 15, 2024
The new contract will result in a 1.35% increase in pay, plus a $500 off-schedule one-time bonus, for certificated union members. In addition, the contract will increase health and welfare benefits by 0.65%, offering union members 100% coverage through Dec. 31, 2025.
Nov 15, 2024
Now that the San Francisco Unified School District’s $790 million facilities bond has passed, it’s up to district officials to decide which schools will receive those funds. Proposition A passed with nearly 75% of the counted votes approving the bond measure, which needed 55% to pass.
Nov 15, 2024
Graves Elementary School in Salinas may be small, but with 32 students and four staff members, it is mighty. The school didn't have potable water for a year because their primary water source, a well, started to fail.
Nov 15, 2024
When the superintendent in San Francisco Unified proposed closing schools recently, parents launched a prolonged — and successful — protest. The uproar may have died down for now, but the issue is likely to erupt at school boards across the state.
Nov 14, 2024
A former Los Angeles Unified School District middle school teacher pleaded not guilty Tuesday to lewd act charges involving a teenage boy who was one of her students.
Nov 14, 2024
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees could decide to close one or more schools at its meeting on Thursday, Nov. 14.
Nov 14, 2024
Educators and university leaders are on the edge of their seats as President-elect Trump makes his return to office with an aggressive posture toward K-12 and higher education.
Nov 14, 2024
Raising the curtain on California’s landmark arts education initiative, funded by voter approval of Proposition 28 two years ago, has been a highly complex endeavor marked by a lack of arts educators, classroom space and free time in school schedules, according to a new report.
Nov 14, 2024
Education has never been a top priority of President-elect Donald Trump’s, but that doesn’t mean schools — or students — will be immune from Trump’s agenda in the next four years, education experts say.
Nov 13, 2024
The lawsuit names the Napa Valley Unified School District. It stems from criminal allegations involving a teacher who was charged earlier this year.
Nov 13, 2024
A Menifee teacher was arrested on suspicion of child abuse following a report made to a Heritage High School school resource officer on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 12.
Nov 13, 2024
Two Inland Empire teachers are finding themselves under fire — and in at least one case, on administrative leave — over comments they’ve made about the 2024 presidential election.
Nov 13, 2024
If the federal Department of Education closed its doors, funding would be the most immediate impact. Especially for the most vulnerable students.
Nov 13, 2024
In a letter sent to football players and their families, Kelly Lara, an assistant district superintendent, said two incidents occurred involving racist speech made toward, and about, a Black teammate.
Nov 13, 2024
Clovis Unified’s $400 million school bond now hovers above the required 55% voter approval threshold, but remained closely contested as of Tuesday evening’s update of vote results in Fresno County.
Nov 13, 2024
Modesto City Schools recommends laying off 93 employees — in addition to withdrawing and changing other funding — to reduce its budget by around $11.5 million. This change of funding, announced during Tuesday night’s board meeting, will affect the 2025-26 and 2026-27 school years.
Nov 13, 2024
Los Angeles Unified has offered the first details of what a cellphone-free school day will soon look like as educators attempt to break the digital-device obsession of a generation of students, aiming to get them off their screens and focused on classroom learning.
Nov 12, 2024
The legal settlement appears to be one of two Windsor Unified School District might reach after a special education teacher allegedly abused a student with autism.
Nov 12, 2024
Rosemead School District appointed Philip D’Agostino as the superintendent of schools, effective at the start of the new year, officials announced.
Nov 12, 2024
Two Ventura County school districts with campuses in Mountain Fire evacuation zones have canceled classes Tuesday, according to the Ventura County Office of Education.
Nov 12, 2024
Board members are tentatively scheduled to vote on the Yondr contract on Nov. 19. The arrangement would cost $160,000 to start in January and $20,000 to $30,000 annually thereafter.
Nov 12, 2024
Parents and educators at Clovis Unified’s Pinedale Elementary School say they’ve seen a troubling rise in drug use, loitering and antisocial behavior near the campus and want a greater police presence in the north Fresno neighborhood.
Nov 12, 2024
Bond measures that are meant to fix and replace dilapidated public school buildings saw mixed success at the ballot box in San Diego County last week — and the stakes are especially high this year, as voters approved a state measure that could give more funding to districts that pass their own bonds.
Nov 12, 2024
Students who graduated in the last 25 years from Modesto high schools most likely took a world religions class as freshmen. That requirement ends with this school year.
Nov 12, 2024
A Bay Area school district has settled a lawsuit claiming that Black students and English learners were denied a proper education and were disproportionately suspended, expelled or funneled into special education classrooms offering poor instruction.
Nov 12, 2024
The Oakland Unified School District, facing a $95 million projected deficit for next year, is weighing plans to reduce administrative overhead by merging 10 schools on five shared campuses.
Nov 12, 2024
The Moreno Valley Unified School District placed a history teacher on leave after he gave a profanity-filled lecture to his students about Donald Trump the day after the former president won a second term.
Nov 12, 2024
Now that the former president has been reelected, his second term in office is almost certain to spell trouble for public education, including in California, home to the largest public school system in the country.
Nov 12, 2024
L.A. Unified is reversing a controversial decision to relax the admissions requirements for some of its most rigorous academic programs after furious debate over how to ensure equitable access to all while maintaining the academic standards in the popular initiatives for highly gifted students.
Nov 08, 2024
Superintendent Tyler Graff said the district has a $30 million budget and $8 million is set aside for special education. He feels the money is being spent wisely but there is not enough to go around. “We don’t have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem,” Graff said.
Nov 08, 2024
This year, California teachers unions and conservative groups intensified efforts to get their favored candidates elected to district school boards. Their primary difference of opinion — educational policies on gender identity and racial equity.
Nov 07, 2024
As of Thursday morning, dozens of county school districts and individual campuses, serving well over 70,000 students, had announced closures for the day, according to a list compiled by the Ventura County Office of Education.
Nov 07, 2024
Early returns show that voters in Woodland are rejecting two local tax measures, including a bond that would fund repairs and improvements for school facilities and a one-cent city sales tax measure. Measures P and U, which were both targeted by a heavily-funded opposition campaign, are the only tax measures in Yolo County on their way to rejection.
Nov 07, 2024
California education leaders and advocates said the fear is palpable and justifiable, but they also urged TK-12 schools, colleges and universities to make sure students and families know about policies to protect their rights, some of which were enacted during the first Trump administration.
Nov 07, 2024
The re-election of Donald Trump is certain to bring a period of conflict, tension and litigation between the White House and California’s political and education leaders whose policies and values the president castigates. It also could potentially have major implications for California schools.
Nov 06, 2024
A $230 million bond placed on the ballot by the Napa Valley Unified School District to fund school repairs and improvements is falling short of the 55% approval needed for it to pass, early results show.
Nov 06, 2024
Many school districts, from Pomona to Redlands, asked voters to approve local measures. The projects vary, but include building and upgrading classrooms, repairs of roofs and plumbing or electrical systems and the addition of technology to campuses.
Nov 06, 2024
Sonoma County voters appeared to be approving seven of the 10 school bond issues on the ballot, with two of the three failing measures just shy of the required 55% threshold for passage.
Nov 06, 2024
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District put up Measure A, a $340 million school facilities bond. The bond is set to raise local property taxes by $50 per $100,000 of assessed value, or around $240 a year for the average homeowner in the district.
Nov 06, 2024
Tamalpais Union High School District voters were leaning toward approval of Measure B, a $289 million bond, in preliminary returns on Tuesday. The district, after failing to win support for a $517 million bond in March, trimmed it down by 44% to the current amount for a second try.
Nov 05, 2024
If the apparent approval holds, Measure E will levy a tax of $29 per $100,000 of assessed property annually. For a home assessed at about $1.45 million, the district median, that would mean a tax of about $420 per year.
Nov 06, 2024
Proposition 2, a bond to provide $10 billion in funding for repairs and upgrades at thousands of public elementary, middle and high schools and community colleges across California, was leading in early returns Tuesday night.
Nov 05, 2024
Atascadero Unified School District Superintendent Tom Butler will retire at the end of the 2024-25 school year, he announced in September, and a search is now underway for the district’s next lead administrator.
Nov 05, 2024
The Novato Unified School District plans to form a panel to determine whether any of its unused properties could be designated as surplus. The district will select seven to 11 members for its facilities advisory committee, said Derek Knell, the district’s director of staff housing.
Nov 05, 2024
A Silicon Valley schools superintendent is resigning amid scrutiny over the district’s finances, including money spent on an East Coast public relations firm and $1,200 per session for an energy healer to provide guided meditation for administrators.
Nov 05, 2024
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have contrasting visions of schools and the federal government’s role in funding and shaping them. Today, voters will pick a president and his or her educational agenda.
Nov 05, 2024
The Murrieta Valley school board has rescinded its controversial policy to notify parents if a student is transgender. In a 3-2 vote, board President Paul Diffley and members Linda Lunn and Nancy Young voted last month to revoke the rule, while trustees Nick Pardue and Julie Vandegrift voted to keep it.
Nov 04, 2024
Hudson Elementary School in West Long Beach has gone through many changes in the past few years. In 2020, the school shifted from serving as a kindergarten through eighth grade campus, and now, it is set for a much greater change – a campus closure.
Nov 04, 2024
The SCCOE asked independent auditors to examine evidence suggesting potential misuse of public funds, including “improper contract awards, unauthorized legal expense reimbursements, conflict waivers, and security concerns, including IT monitoring,” according to a news release Friday.
Nov 04, 2024
In the months preceding this week’s election, some California history and social studies teachers have proceeded cautiously in covering the presidential campaign, while others have embraced the opportunity confidently and comprehensively.
Nov 01, 2024
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees held a wide-ranging study session on school consolidation on Tuesday and could decide which schools, if any, to close within the next two weeks.
Nov 01, 2024
In a notice Thursday afternoon, the city told Bishop’s Peak Elementary and 23 of its surrounding homes to boil drinking and cooking water until it is deemed safe to drink.
Nov 01, 2024
“When we looked at Hudson’s utilization rate, enrollment based on program capacity, they’re under 20% currently,” Miranda said, “so that’s a very low utilization rate on that particular campus.”
Nov 01, 2024
"It is alleged that this took place off campus at the teacher’s residence," Avalos said. "The teacher will remain on administrative leave as the Lodi Police Department completes their investigation and the district completes their investigation."
Nov 01, 2024
San Francisco’s teachers union continues to push back against potential school closures, with organizers saying that the district’s directives to pause the process can’t be taken for granted. Teachers and parents rallied Wednesday at a United Educators of San Francisco demonstration outside The City’s school-district headquarters at 555 Franklin St.
Nov 01, 2024
While the upcoming presidential election crowds voters’ minds, a new demographic will be casting their ballots for the first time this November. Both the cities of Berkeley and Oakland announced in August that 16 and 17-year-old constituents are now eligible to vote in local school board races.
Nov 01, 2024
At Senator Ruben S. Ayala Senior High School in Chino Hills, students this semester complained of broken air conditioners and bathroom sinks, faulty Chromebooks and Wi-Fi and, in one classroom, a ceiling leak that dripped into a bucket by a teacher’s desk as rats scurried across the floor.
Oct 31, 2024
A Sonoma County Superior Court judge was issued a public admonishment Wednesday after he engaged in improper political activity and social media conduct connected to a proposed high school name change, a judicial conduct commission said.
Oct 31, 2024
In 2022, Californians across the state elected a slate of school board candidates who ran on a parents’ rights platform — a platform founded on the idea that school staff, therapists and doctors are actively hiding important information from parents and promoting LGBTQ ideology.
Oct 30, 2024
Voters will weigh in on one of San Francisco’s biggest bond measures ever next month, and officials with The City’s public-school district say they are counting on its passage to provide much-needed upgrades to worsening century-old facilities.
Oct 30, 2024
For months, Oakland school officials have been warning families and staff about the pain ahead as the district addresses a $174 million deficit and the cost of running dozens of half empty schools, but the warnings have lacked specifics.
Oct 30, 2024
The California Teachers Association (CTA), the California Republican Party and other organizations have significantly ramped up efforts to help their favored candidates win local school board seats on Nov. 5.
Oct 29, 2024
After a series of threats that led to a dramatic evacuation and lockdown of Penngrove Elementary earlier this month, parents began raising concerns about Sonoma County’s plans to use the school as one of its voting centers for this year’s election.
Oct 29, 2024
In Jeff Simon’s math class at Sage Creek High School, students are not only allowed but encouraged to use AI. Simon introduces students to artificial intelligence tools that explain, step by step, how to solve a math problem — all they have to do is take a picture of it.
Oct 29, 2024
A federal appeals court ruling could require California to pay for some children to attend religious schools. California pays some private schools to teach students with learning disabilities, but only if those schools are secular, with no religious instruction.
Oct 29, 2024
The California attorney general is investigating a Southern California school district over whether it properly handled claims of educator sexual abuse and misconduct, records reviewed by Business Insider show.
Increasingly organized groups of parents advocating for an immediate return to class are emerging as a potent political counterweight to teachers unions.
The teachers union in Sacramento City Unified School District released its framework for reopening for in-person learning on Tuesday, and the plan prioritizes offering the COVID-19 vaccine to all of its 4,500 district employees.
Experts have found that remote instruction falls far short of classroom learning. But surveys have shown that a majority of Black and Latino parents in Los Angeles are still hesitant about sending their children back into schools.
Some teachers are reluctant to return to classroom settings as Orange County students resume at least some in-person learning. So substitute teachers might be in demand more than ever before.
Santa Clara County schools have the green light starting Wednesday to usher in a phased return to real face-to-face lessons. But the vast majority are opting instead to stay the course through the rest of the semester.
At Lucerne Valley Elementary in Southern California’s high desert, hundreds of students have returned to in-person learning and a dramatically different school day.
Pleasanton is the latest city to take a hard look at the role of police in the community and schools — and how to respond to mental health calls. The city agreed to revise its police use of force policies and possibly remove school resource officers.
Rescue Union School District, home to 3,700 students at its five elementary schools and two middle schools, is able to open since the county has remained off of the state’s monitoring list and complied with the long list of requirements to reopen.
Masks will be required at every level. In elementary schools, half of students will end their day at lunchtime, before the other half arrives. Middle and high school kids will trade off and spend two days a week on campus.
At the June 23 Oceanside Unified School Board meeting, Trustee Mike Blessing asked staff to present an option for “100 percent return” in the fall, District Communications Director Matthew Jennings said.