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Apr 22, 2024
Oak Park Unified School District trustees voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Anais Wenn, a longtime La Cañada Unified School District administrator, as the district's next superintendent.
Apr 22, 2024
In a statement, Verber Salazar said that Flores served notices to the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office, the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, and Stockton Unified School District last week. She intends to sue all three.
Apr 22, 2024
Stockton Unified School District Trustee AngelAnn Flores was arrested on Friday following a months-long investigation into insurance fraud and theft of public funds, authorities said.
Apr 22, 2024
In return for the “historic” 9% across-the-board raise that Monterey Peninsula Unified School District announced earlier this year, the district said it would have to cut programming and layoff staff to account for that extra $10 million in expenditures.
Apr 22, 2024
The board voted unanimously on Wednesday to hire Godbe Research Inc. on a contract of up to $36,425 to conduct telephone polling of 400 district voters to gauge their appetite for an additional parcel tax.
Apr 22, 2024
After nearly 10 months without a permanent superintendent, the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education unanimously voted Thursday to appoint Lisa Allen to the position.
Apr 22, 2024
Teachers can fly Pride flags and students can change their pronouns at school without parental notification, according to a union statement detailing a new agreement between school psychologists and Clovis Unified School District.
Apr 22, 2024
The last time Superintendent Al Mijares was present at an Orange County Department of Education meeting was in December 2022. He’s been on medical leave since August — and says he is hoping to make a return in full capacity to the department this August.
Apr 22, 2024
The term “school lunches” often elicits a memory of half-frozen pizzas and bags of limp carrots, but not for students in the Los Gatos Union School District. The district has been working with the Los Gatos-based nonprofit Plant-Based Advocates to incorporate more plant-based options into the district’s meal plans this academic year.
Apr 22, 2024
Last year, a district-hired inspector discovered dangerous levels of toxic vapors percolating in the soil at the proposed construction site, a parking lot on the northeast end of campus. Since then, state regulators have concluded the contaminants likely migrated underground from a dry cleaner across the street.
Apr 22, 2024
Now, advocates are charging that the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and its oversight body, the Committee on Accreditation, have failed their first test to stand behind those new standards.
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