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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.
Jun 15, 2026
Ellwood School just became the latest from Goleta Union to go solar.
Jun 15, 2026
The Lucia Mar Unified School District board of trustees approved pay raises for the district superintendent, assistant superintendents and other management positions Tuesday night despite objections from some staff who argued the raises weren’t fair.
Jun 15, 2026
Again and again, the world’s leading social media companies have targeted students, even as complaints have mounted that they are hurting teenagers’ mental health and academic performance, according to a New York Times review of internal documents that lay bare for the first time these tactics to hook young users.
Jun 15, 2026
Two Santa Paula Unified School District students were expelled for taking photos and creating sexually-explicit images of female classmates using artificial intelligence.
Jun 15, 2026
The mother of two Redlands Unified students alleges in a lawsuit that district officials failed to protect her sons from months of racial harassment despite repeated complaints, substantiated investigations and community concerns about racism in district schools.
Jun 15, 2026
Successes and challenges went hand in hand during her first year as Modesto City Schools superintendent, Vanessa Buitrago told The Bee during a broad-ranging interview.
Jun 15, 2026
As California seeks to leave fewer financial aid dollars on the table for high school graduates, schools in San Diego County are combining persistence with persuasion to get more students to apply for aid.
Jun 15, 2026
A superintendent from a tiny school district in Kern County, working with only a dozen volunteers over three months, garnered at least 670,000 votes in her bid for California superintendent of public instruction, despite taking no campaign contributions.
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