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Oct 14, 2026
The information-services-and-support manager does not have contact with district students when he is at work, and no Fontana student appears to be a victim, Fontana Unified spokeswoman Clarissa Trejo said on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
Oct 14, 2026
Colorful pride flags lined Broadway in front of Sonoma Valley High School Tuesday, Oct. 13, as hundreds of demonstrators — students and adults — rallied in Sonoma in protest of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District’s new flag policy that has forced the removal of the pride flag first raised on the school’s campus by students in 2019.
Oct 14, 2026
Matthew Harris, the former Petaluma City Schools chief, will serve as interim superintendent of Rincon Valley Union School District in eastern Santa Rosa. Harris, who led the Petaluma district for five years, is succeeding Mike Herfurth, who announced his resignation as Rincon Valley’s top administrator in September, effective Oct. 8.
Oct 14, 2026
The infighting between Temecula Valley school board continues as trustees were set Tuesday night, Oct. 13, to take up proposed censures of three members — as well as a call for two of them to resign.
Oct 14, 2026
It’s official: San Francisco will ditch its unpredictable, lottery-based enrollment system and instead assign elementary students to their neighborhood school, with limited ability to choose another option.
Oct 14, 2026
The Franklin High School community — its students, teachers and parents — are struggling to find a way forward as they mourn the death of senior Xavier Nungaray-Martinez, who was repeatedly hit by another student and then fell over a fourth-story railing on campus, a traumatic sequence of events that has sundered any sense of normalcy and prompted districtwide demands for safer schools.
Oct 14, 2026
Beginning this year, California is offering $10,000 stipends to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs as they complete their student teaching requirements.
Oct 14, 2026
Porterville Unified is not the only school district in the state trying to make its campuses more resilient to climate change. But students here have played an unusually active role in the process.
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