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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.
Jul 26, 2024
Local LGBTQ+ activist groups are supportive of a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that would bar school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change.
Jul 26, 2024
Students at a few Lodi Unified School District campuses will see some new faces greeting them for the first day of instruction next week.
Jul 26, 2024
Riding on one of San Juan Unified School District’s six new school buses is certainly a departure from most people’s childhood experience of riding the bus, but in subtle ways. The vehicles are nearly indistinguishable from buses of the past on both the outside and the inside, featuring the same
Jul 26, 2024
San Jose Unified School District’s board of education called for a special board meeting Thursday night to determine the fate of a $1.2 billion school facilities bond measure. If the board approves the resolution, the measure will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot, where it will need support from 55% of local voters to pass.
Jul 26, 2024
The panel at EdSource’s roundtable, “Adult education: Overlooked and underfunded,” discussed how adults and their families can benefit from adult education, the common barriers to access and ways to overcome them.
Jul 26, 2024
The former senior director of fiscal services at a school district in Orange County who pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $17 million over several years from the schools he was hired to serve was sentenced Thursday to five years and eight months in federal prison, officials announced.
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