May 20, 2025

Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Elizabeth Blanco, Sunday, May 18, acknowledged rising concern from parents about the results of recent soil testing, which found 18 district sites with elevated levels of heavy metals in soil.

May 20, 2025

Last week the Pasadena Unified School District released the first batch of results from soil testing done at all district sites. The results were in line with Los Angeles County testing, which found elevated lead levels in and around the Eaton fire burn scar.

May 20, 2025

A handful of Ventura County school districts are moving to lay off staff in the summer as enrollment declines eat into funding and one-time, pandemic-related grants run their course.

May 20, 2025

Tepovich said Redwood is working on offering a full personal finance course in advance of the state Legislature’s mandate to offer at least a semester on the topic at every high school by the 2027-28 school year.

May 20, 2025

The district needed to cut the $220,000 cost for the program because of a budget shortfall, Leo Kostelnik, the superintendent, said in a letter to the community last week.

May 20, 2025

Fresno Unified School District plans to make $49 million in cuts for the 2025-26 school year, including 59 full-time positions, amid continued declines in enrollment and student daily attendance.

May 20, 2025

San Jose’s first charter school, founded in 2000 to serve low-income students of color, will permanently close at the end of the current school year, resulting in 99 employee layoffs.

May 20, 2025

A state legislative committe has approved a bill from Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria that would allow school districts to apply for waivers while working to adopt the state’s 2035 zero-emission school bus mandate.

May 20, 2025

A Southern California school district’s ban on teaching “critical race theory” — the history and culture of civil rights and racial discrimination — violates its students’ educational rights, a state appeals court ruled Monday.

May 20, 2025

After a decade-long push from reading advocates, California schools are on the verge of requiring every student in kindergarten through second grade to get a quick screening test to detect challenges that could get in the way of them becoming proficient in reading.

May 20, 2025

California law since 1993 has allowed children with learning disabilities to attend private schools at state expense, but only if the schools are non-religious. That is apparently about to change under a court settlement Monday between state education officials and a group of Orthodox Jewish parents.