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Apr 27, 2026
The San Francisco Board of Education on Tuesday will vote whether or not to approve Superintendent Maria Su’s proposed effort to overhaul classroom instruction and replace outdated curricula with learning materials that reflect more recent 21st century developments.
Apr 27, 2026
Meanwhile, members of SEIU Local 99 will start voting today through early May. That union represents bus drivers, cafeteria workers, classroom aides and other school support staff. The tentative deal promises to bring their 30,000 members a 24% pay increase and expanded healthcare access.
Apr 27, 2026
Union officials said the contract includes a 12.15% wage increase over two years, “along with landmark workload protections, including a defined 8-hour workday, a reasonable 40-hour workweek, and flex time with notice and no pre-approval.”
Apr 27, 2026
On the California Department of Justice’s website, which is designed to help families know their rights, schools reported 2,700 incidents of sexual assault, 17,000 allegations of sexual harassment and 350 incidents of rape or attempted rape in a single academic year.
Apr 27, 2026
Despite protections in a 1977 landmark state law, the Student Free Expression Act, which prohibits administrators from interfering with the gathering and publication of news, student reporters and their journalism advisers have encountered censorship attempts in recent years, including efforts to punish advisers for students’ stories and to remove content.
Apr 27, 2026
Administrators at an affluent Marin County high school district appear to have twice recently violated a state law that protects the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists at an award-winning newspaper, the Redwood Bark.
Apr 27, 2026
The Fresno Unified school board approved an $80,000 expenditure to renew its board leadership coaching contract for the next two years.
Apr 27, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District’s former Chief Business Officer Janea Marking alleges in documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee that the board of trustees knowingly approved an “unaffordable” teachers union contract despite repeated warnings about its fiscal consequences.
Apr 27, 2026
As concerns loom for school funding amid an uncertain state budget, the candidates also debated how education is funded now — and how it should be.
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