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FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.

Mar 25, 2025

The Alvord school board has temporarily replaced outgoing Superintendent Resma Byrne with a retired school administrator. In a closed session meeting Monday morning, March 24, the Alvord Unified School District board unanimously approved the hiring of Lisa Simon as interim superintendent.

Mar 25, 2025

For more than a century, Congress has given extra money to counties with large tracts of federal land to help pay for schools, roads and other critical services. Now that financial lifeline appears to be dead after Congress didn’t include it in the budget passed this month.

Mar 25, 2025

The cash-strapped Pasadena Unified School District is suing Southern California Edison, seeking compensation for the loss of multiple buildings that burned in the Eaton fire and the ensuing disruption of its operations.

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