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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.

Mar 18, 2024

The Bellflower Unified School District has its third leader in less than two years – and could soon have a fourth – after recently parting ways with Superintendent Ben Drati and installing an interim successor.

Mar 18, 2024

Though the process is routine, California Teachers Association President David Goldberg said tentative layoffs have dramatically increased this year. “This year, we are already aware of almost 1,400 positions on the chopping block — about five times more than last year, with more to come.”

Mar 18, 2024

Access to graduation may now be easier for students in the Santa Rosa City Schools district after the board of trustees approved a new set of waivers Wednesday night.

Mar 18, 2024

The Novato Unified School District has selected an Oakland real estate development firm as a consultant for its workforce housing program. A district committee chose Brookwood Partners, which has completed similar projects at other Bay Area school districts, from a group of potential candidates.

Mar 18, 2024

When San Francisco said March 16, 2020, that it would lock down a day later due to the spread of COVID-19, then-teacher Cassondra Curiel was given less than 48 hours to clear out of her Visitacion Valley Middle School classroom.

Mar 18, 2024

The effort is one of several around the district that parents, students and community members have launched in recent years to remove the names of historic figures now widely understood to have perpetuated racism in the U.S.

Mar 18, 2024

Voters in the city of Orange appear to have ousted two conservative school board members who had spearheaded policies widely opposed by advocates for LGBTQ+ youth in a recall election viewed as a local bellwether for the culture wars in education.

Mar 18, 2024

It’s the second year of California’s uneven four-year rollout of universal transitional kindergarten, an ambitious, multibillion-dollar initiative to make high-quality education available to each of the state’s 4-year-olds — an estimated 400,000 children.

Mar 18, 2024

Kevon DeLeon wandered off from school on Sept. 22, 2021; three days later, the 17-year-old boy was dead after having multiple seizures and going into cardiac arrest.

Mar 18, 2024

The same strategy that combats racial intolerance among K-12 students also produces schools where children are less likely to be bullied or feel alone, research has shown.

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