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Sep 17, 2025
The Redlands Unified School District has settled for $1.4 million a lawsuit with the first alleged victim of former high school teacher Laura Whitehurst, who sparked a sex abuse scandal after having a child with one of her students.
Sep 17, 2025
Fresno Unified is no longer offering remote learning to kindergarten students starting this school year, district officials confirmed to The Bee.
Sep 17, 2025
San Juan Unified School District may have violated the Brown Act when investigating and reprimanding an elected board member.
Sep 17, 2025
If signed, AB 1454 moves the state one step closer to implementing evidence-based reading instruction in California classrooms — a decades-long, highly contentious state debate.
Sep 17, 2025
Partisan politics, shifting school policies, changing technology and uncertain school funding are making being a school board member more difficult than ever.
Sep 17, 2025
School district officials are investigating after a Villa Park High teacher allegedly removed and threw away a student memorial to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk from the front of the Orange County campus.
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