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Sep 02, 2025
Passed by Lodi voters in 2016, the $281 million in Measure U funds repair and reconstruction projects at the district’s various buildings. Over the last decade, the district has undertaken parking lot improvements, classroom reconstruction, and replacing portable classrooms older than 30 years.
Sep 02, 2025
Some Ventura County schools are picking up a new job as classes get back in session this fall: medical billing. Roughly half of the county's K-12 public school districts will get the ability to charge students' insurance providers for the mental health care services schools offer on campus.
Sep 02, 2025
The Board of Education voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of a three-year, $140,718 contract with Oakland-based insurance firm Keenan & Associates to revamp security and emergency operations training and equipment throughout the district’s schools, offices and classrooms.
Sep 02, 2025
Students in Fresno Unified went back to school earlier this month amid concerns that fears of mass deportations would keep several pupils of immigrant families from attending class.
Sep 02, 2025
Woods announced his retirement, effective Dec. 31, to the school board during closed session Tuesday, Aug. 26, according to a Wednesday, Aug. 27, email to Temecula Valley Unified School District employees sent by the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent Lena Anicobar.
Sep 02, 2025
Citing safety concerns, the superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District froze a plan Thursday to fly the Israeli flag at school campuses for one month every year.
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