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FCMAT provides links to California K-12 news stories as a service to the industry. However, some stories may not be accessible because of newspapers' subscription policies.
Dec 10, 2019
The parents of a 12-year-old girl who died by suicide last spring are suing her school district, school principal and counselor after they “failed and refused" to act when the girl expressed suicidal thoughts.
Dec 10, 2019
San Ysidro School District, which educates the region’s largest share of homeless students, now requires some families to submit paperwork every 30 days confirming they’re homeless. When a sixth grade student failed to comply, the district unenrolled her.
Dec 10, 2019
County officials have pulled back plans to award Census outreach money to the city of Santa Ana and Santa Ana Unified School District, prompting protests from city and school district officials that it’s retaliation for raising public concerns about a proposed county homeless shelter in their city.
Dec 10, 2019
A lawsuit by a girl who was sexually abused by an educator says San Diego Unified School district officials should have intervened sooner.
Dec 09, 2019
State officials overseeing the anti-bias settlement in the Sausalito Marin City School District have agreed to allow district funds to go to its charter school in Sausalito to stabilize operations there during the current unification process.
Dec 09, 2019
Over the course of several months, Folsom Cordova Unified School District considered shifting hundreds of students who were set to attend Vista del Lago to Folsom High. Some parents are not happy.
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