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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 24, 2026
Critics are mounting a campaign to stop school trustees from cutting back a popular outdoor learning program at Archie Williams High School in San Anselmo.
Mar 24, 2026
The board unanimously OK’d Blackmore for the job on March 19, in which he will succeed Elizabeth Eminhizer, who the board fired on July 7 last year.
Mar 24, 2026
Members of the Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s School Consolidation Advisory Committee (SCAC) Monday, March 23, opted not to narrow the list of schools under consideration for closure.
Mar 24, 2026
Twin Rivers Unified School District teachers returned to their classrooms Monday, ending the union’s first-ever strike, a 12-day walkout motivated by what teachers described as untenable health care costs and unmanageable class sizes.
Mar 24, 2026
Despite one lawmaker’s assertion that it could boost funding for 90% of districts in the state, California appears to have pivoted away from an effort to fundamentally change the way it funds schools, after a report found the shift could have unexpected consequences.
Mar 24, 2026
State data shows the California school administrators are more racially diverse, more likely to be female and more likely to have less experience than administrators had several years ago, according to a recent study by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools.
Mar 24, 2026
California education officials have released an audit into a local school district and its ties to a private boarding school in China, finding “sufficient evidence” of “fraud, misappropriation of funds, or other illegal fiscal practices.”
Mar 24, 2026
Officials are moving Tuesday to strip the name of César Chávez from two Los Angeles school district campuses as fallout continues over allegations against the late labor leader of rape and sexual misconduct with minors.
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