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Jun 09, 2025
Rena Seifts, the associate superintendent of business services for Sonoma Valley Unified School District, has been selected as its acting superintendent, effective Monday, June 9, and the Sonoma County Office of Education will begin assisting the district’s board of trustees with the process of finding a new superintendent and other compelling matters.
Jun 09, 2025
Ross Valley School District trustees have accepted a preliminary budget with $700,000 in cuts over two years. The reductions to the $32 million budget come in response to the district’s loss in its May 6 parcel tax special election.
Jun 09, 2025
If ratified by the union and approved by trustees, the California School Employees Association agreement would offer 2% increases in salaries effective July 1. In addition, the pact would offer a 2.5% increase in the district’s contribution toward medical benefits.
Jun 09, 2025
Tensions in the longstanding feud between Fresno Unified and the teachers union escalated after the district’s new superintendent confronted the union’s president about its public critiques using a document containing quotes fabricated by artificial intelligence.
Jun 09, 2025
Grossmont Union High School District expects to hire a new superintendent this week, following months of tumult, public outcry over school layoffs and scrutiny of the short-lived hiring of a high-level official with a checkered history.
Jun 09, 2025
Jolene Daly spoke at two recent gatherings, arguing that fifth-graders aren’t psychologically prepared for the content about gender identity and sexual activity. Daly gave a scathing critique of the curriculum Saturday at Celebration Center, a church in Modesto
Jun 09, 2025
In its “State of the States” report on math instruction published last week, the National Council on Teacher Quality sharply criticized California and many of its teacher certification programs for ineffectively preparing new elementary teachers to teach math and for failing to support and guide them once they reach the classroom.
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