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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 02, 2026

The Paso Robles school district will construct new, private changing spaces in one of its locker rooms as a hopeful solution to community division over the inclusion of transgender girls in girls facilities.

Mar 02, 2026

Trustees of the Tamalpais Union High School District, faced with declining enrollment and a budget deficit, have approved $2.2 million worth of staff cuts.

Mar 02, 2026

Voters in the Novato Unified School District will decide this spring whether to approve an additional parcel tax that will double the annual payments.

Mar 02, 2026

A Los Angeles Police Department investigation is underway into the death of a 12-year-old girl who succumbed to injuries sustained when she was hit in the head with a metal water bottle during an alleged bullying incident at Reseda Charter High School.

Mar 02, 2026

Los Angeles schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho was put on paid leave Friday while he is part of a federal investigation, two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district’s headquarters.

Mar 02, 2026

The Oakland Unified School District teachers union announced a tentative new contract Friday morning, less than 48 hours after the Board of Education voted to eliminate hundreds of positions to reduce a $102 million budget deficit, avoiding another state takeover.

Mar 02, 2026

Jeremy Taylor had just finished dinner at home in Oakland after a day of teaching when his phone rang, his principal’s name lighting up the screen. The words he heard next, he recalled, barely registered: Allegations of misconduct.

Mar 02, 2026

San Jose Unified School District’s proposed school closures echo elements of a 2022 Oakland Unified plan that state officials later said would have disproportionately affected Black and low-income students.

Mar 02, 2026

Teachers unions are demanding better pay and health benefits. Districts are pleading tight budgets. And students and parents are wondering: How will the tough choices ahead shape their schools’ futures?

Mar 02, 2026

Los Angeles schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho has been placed on indefinite administrative leave, officials announced Friday — two days after FBI agents raided his home and office related to an undisclosed criminal investigation.

Mar 02, 2026

California schools lost more than $2.2 million in state funding over two years because some students did not have all the vaccinations required by state law, according to data obtained by EdSource from the California State Controller’s Office.

Mar 02, 2026

When a mother in the small city of Greenfield in the Salinas Valley received a call that her middle school daughter had been in a fight, she had a lot of questions. But she couldn’t get answers, because no one at the school could speak Triqui.

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