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May 22, 2026
A small group of San Luis Obispo parents and students are rallying to shore up staffing at school libraries, as budget cuts are expected to leave the district’s elementary schoolers without full-time librarians.
May 22, 2026
Hundreds of Modesto City Schools teachers packed the parking lot and streets outside the Monday night Board of Education meeting, holding signs and wearing Modesto Teachers Association shirts.
May 22, 2026
More than 1,000 Los Angeles school workers are expected to lose their jobs after the Board of Education on Thursday approved layoffs and, separately, after district management quietly terminated the employment of workers without tenure or other union job protections.
May 22, 2026
A San Francisco Bay Area school district has replaced a middle school math teacher for the remainder of the academic year following an investigation by KQED and ProPublica that showed he had been accused of inappropriately touching students at two previous jobs.
May 22, 2026
Backers of a lawsuit who claim that state funding to repair and update school facilities illegally favors wealthy school districts will ask a Superior Court judge Friday to expedite action in the case.
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