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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.
Jan 21, 2026
Michael Specchierla, the executive director at the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education, announced on Tuesday his campaign for SLO County superintendent of schools.
Jan 21, 2026
The proposal would ask residents to renew the district’s current parcel tax and reauthorize a second tax that expired during the pandemic.
Jan 21, 2026
The Sausalito Marin City School District is seeking a new after-school provider following the announcement that its contractor, Bridge the Gap, will not continue with the program next year.
Jan 21, 2026
Special ed enrollment has been rising across the Lodi Unified district, as well as the state and country, for the past few decades. At a school board meeting last August, the district announced that 18% of Lodi’s 26,000 students receive special ed services — a figure several percentage points higher than the statewide average.
Jan 21, 2026
The Los Angeles County Office of Education has awarded the Pasadena Unified School District a positive certification on its recently submitted first interim report.
Jan 21, 2026
A new school on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians reservation will bring together on one campus younger tribal students who currently go to school at three sites on the reservation.
Jan 21, 2026
Amid a national and turbulent debate on how to boost lagging literacy skills, San Francisco is putting its money behind a simple effort that seems to be generating the kind of jaw-dropping results often promised with education reforms, but rarely seen.
Jan 21, 2026
A long-running effort to help disadvantaged students of color in Los Angeles schools is under legal challenge by a group that claims the nation’s second-largest school system is discriminating against white students.
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