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Feb 11, 2026
The Redlands school board on Tuesday night, Feb. 10, discussed policy to give principals the power to pull explicit books off library shelves and require librarians to record who approved a book for the library and why.
Feb 11, 2026
The Temecula school board on Tuesday night, Feb. 10, approved layoff notices for more than 20 employees. Neither Temecula Valley Unified School District administrators nor board members explained the reasons for the tentative cuts, where were approved 5-0.
Feb 11, 2026
Hundreds of students, parents and community members rallied at the San Jose Unified School District district office Tuesday evening to protest the potential closure of up to a third of the district’s elementary schools.
Feb 11, 2026
San Francisco schools will remain closed Wednesday for the third day of a teachers strike as union leaders and district officials inched their way closer to an agreement.
Feb 11, 2026
The San Francisco teachers strike has left a trail of fiscal confusion in its wake as the union and district negotiate terms of the labor contract, a complicated document detailing the compensation and working conditions of nearly 6,000 teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, paraeducators, security workers and other members.
Feb 11, 2026
With its first-ever teachers strike behind it, West Contra Costa Unified School District is now racing against the clock to come up with a package of budget reductions and austerity measures in order to keep the 25,000-student Bay Area district solvent.
Feb 11, 2026
Elk Grove Unified School District’s new superintendent, David Reilly, has inherited one of the few school districts in California that is still growing.
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