Sep 14, 2026

The district’s Board of Trustees appointed a committee of 23 teachers, parents, students, business leaders and other Ventura residents to make recommendations to the board on which schools would be the best choices to close, and that committee has been holding public meetings every month since March.

Sep 14, 2026

Santa Rosa City Schools has made some progress in its financial recovery since slashing dozens of staff positions and narrowing some programs last spring, but it has yet to meet its goals for cash on hand.

Sep 14, 2026

After a nearly two-hour discussion at its meeting on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Sonoma City Chambers, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees did not take a vote on establishing a revised flag policy for district schools and instead requested staff members to flesh out three options for further discussion.

Sep 14, 2026

“Money from the state is based on how many students we have,” Joshua Braff told trustees at their board meeting on Sept. 1. “We have 600 students less now than at our peak in 2016-17, and 300 less than two years ago.”

Sep 14, 2026

Steven Richardson accepted a contract through June 2028 at $275,000 a year. District trustees unanimously approved the contract on Thursday. The contract starts on Oct. 1.

Sep 14, 2026

In 2013, San Francisco’s schools got their first monetary donation from Salesforce, a $2.7 million check that the company’s CEO and founder, Marc Benioff, said was the down payment on $100 million over 10 years.

Sep 14, 2026

Fourth-grader Landon Gonzalez and one of his classmates ran the 5K at the L.A. Chinatown Firecracker Run last year. They plan to do it again in the spring — only this time, they have a new place to train at their school in Westlake.

Sep 14, 2026

The race for California’s next superintendent of public instruction is meant to be nonpartisan. Still, the two candidates — both school board presidents — are pushing decidedly political campaigns.

Sep 14, 2026

Trent Nettles was a toddler on Sept. 11, 2001. Now 27, Nettles is an 11th-grade Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher — too young to remember the day but responsible for teaching it to students who weren’t yet born when it happened.

Sep 14, 2026

An Oakland Unified program offering mentorship and academic support to Latino male teenagers is the latest target of a conservative national parental rights group that has filed multiple complaints which led to civil rights investigations at schools across the country.

Sep 14, 2026

A month into the school year, teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are still adapting to the district’s new policy that bans screen time for its youngest kids and will soon place significant restrictions on older students.