Providing Fiscal Assistance and Services to Local Educational Agencies

THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA SINCE 1992

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News In Education

FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.

Elk Grove Unified School District cutting 31 classified positions as funding ends

Mar 03, 2026

Thirty-one classified employees in the Elk Grove Unified School District will lose their jobs next school year as the district eliminates positions funded by a COVID-19 recovery grant, district officials and the union confirmed.

Lowell High math teacher on leave after quizzes prompt allegations of fat-shaming, sexist content

Mar 03, 2026

A San Francisco math teacher was on indefinite leave Monday after administrators learned he required his students to solve quiz problems about a “fat kid” punted in the air and the monetary cost of dating girls based on their weight or “sexy points.”

EdSource: LAUSD is now accountable for high-dosage tutoring as settlement is approved

Mar 03, 2026

The Los Angeles Unified School District is officially on the hook for providing high-dosage tutoring to students after a judge approved a settlement reached last fall.

FBI scrutiny of Carvalho, LAUSD began with tip from N.Y. prosecutors examining fraud at AI firm

Mar 03, 2026

The investigation that led to last week’s FBI raid at the home and office of schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho stemmed from a referral more than a year ago from New York prosecutors working a criminal fraud case involving a technology company with a Los Angeles Unified School District contract that went bust, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.

California must let schools out transgender students to parents, U.S. Supreme Court rules

Mar 03, 2026

California must allow teachers in its public schools to notify parents that their child identifies as transgender, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting a state policy that a lower court had upheld.

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Our Services

These three services represent the people and skills behind FCMAT and our dedication to California's educational system.

Professional Learning Workshops

FCMAT's professional learning service includes regional and local educational agency (LEA)-specific workshops on a variety of topics for county offices, school districts, charter schools and community colleges; various leadership preparation programs; and written resources and presentations on a variety of topics given by staff throughout California.

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California School Information Services (CSIS)

As a service of FCMAT, CSIS assists LEAs in addressing a variety of challenges in the management and exchange of public school student, staff, and institutional information. CSIS has a long-standing history of providing leadership, information and tools designed to empower California's LEAs with increasing access to and use of high-quality data.

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Fiscal Health Risk Analysis (FHRA) and Indicators of Risk or Potential Insolvency

FCMAT has developed the FHRA and the Indicators of Risk or Financial Insolvency tools to help evaluate an LEA's fiscal health and risk of insolvency in the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Separate versions exist for TK-12, charter schools, and community colleges.

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Ed-Data.org

Ed-Data.org, also known as the Education Data Partnership, is a partnership of the California Department of Education, EdSource, and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team/California School Information Services (FCMAT/CSIS). It provides educators, parents, policy makers, the legislature and public access to timely and comprehensive fiscal, demographic, and performance data about TK-12 education in California.

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