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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.
May 08, 2026
Becoming a new public school teacher in California means facing an impossible choice: work for a high-need school, making a full-time salary but with little support or training; or get the proper education and training but lose a year or more of wages.
May 08, 2026
Two Temecula school board members are facing backlash after their social media comments comparing a photo of uniformed high school water polo players to Chippendales exotic dancers and what’s seen on an adult content platform.
May 08, 2026
California K-12 schools have come a long way over the past 20 years, but according to an exhaustive overview of the state’s school system, further progress may require tinkering with a long-entrenched form of school governance: local control.
May 08, 2026
The mood in the Serna Center was decidedly grim Thursday night as the leader of a state financial agency told the Sacramento City Unified School District board that a state takeover is inevitable.
May 08, 2026
A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams.
May 08, 2026
More than a dozen American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in Clovis Unified have left for better-paying jobs in neighboring districts amid stalled negotiations over their first collective bargaining agreement.
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