Oct 20, 2026

Potential closures of these campuses, Gompers Elementary School in Lakewood and Edison Elementary School in downtown Long Beach, would happen at the end of the 2026-27 academic year. The proposal to do so, however, has sparked opposition and several concerns from parents and the campus communities.

Oct 20, 2026

The Fontana Unified School District should soon have its its new superintendent. Ramiro Rubalcaba, an educator with 30 years of experience, is the finalist to serve as the district’s new leader, a news release states.

Oct 20, 2026

The school opened four years ago and is the district’s sole language immersion school that voters paid for through the $172 million school bond Measure L in 2018. But this year, the school district is asking for $300 million dollars more through school bond Measure D.

Oct 20, 2026

The Encinitas Union School District and the city of Encinitas have reached an agreement resolving “all outstanding issues” related to the Paul Ecke-Central Elementary School project and building construction may begin soon, the two parties announced last week.

Oct 20, 2026

For the second time this week a Vallejo City Unified School District site safety official was arrested, this time at Jesse Bethel High School, where Charles Fontenette was booked for allegedly committing battery with serious bodily injury.

Oct 20, 2026

For more than 20 years, Oakland Unified School District asked: How do we get out of state receivership? Now that full local authority is restored, I worry the question has simply become: How do we stay out of it? That’s the wrong question.

Oct 20, 2026

“As a superintendent, I continually ask myself: ‘What additional role can I play? What additional contribution can I make?’ And here is what I can pledge: Locally, and in the absence of meaningful change from seats of greater power, we will continue to prepare and protect our community in thoughtful and responsive ways."

Oct 20, 2026

The board of education voted 5-0 Oct. 15 to approve the $6 million sale of the former Avenue School site. The district-owned property at 2647 N. Ventura Ave. closed in 1989 and was declared surplus property in 2023 after years of sitting vacant.

Oct 20, 2026

According to the report, Key and Morales "discouraged VCOE employees from using email to discuss or authorize certain decisions, as evidenced by the use of handwritten sticky notes by VCOE staff to document verbal directives from leadership."

Oct 20, 2026

Amid a groundswell of support in recent years for returning police officers to school campuses in Santa Rosa, and after a school board vote nearly three years ago to bring back the program in some form, the city and school district appear no closer to making that step happen.

Oct 20, 2026

Elsie Allen moved to the four-by-four schedule in 2026 amid the district’s wider efforts to stabilize its budget. “It’s very new,” Caston said. “The fact that there are more minutes in one semester for the course is a new thing, so when we introduce something new, there are bound to be misunderstandings.”