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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.
Mar 03, 2026
An elementary school in Atascadero was briefly placed on lockdown Monday morning after a student reportedly witnessed an individual carrying a gun on campus.
Mar 03, 2026
A former Charter Oak High School teacher faces five years in prison for committing unlawful sexual acts with two female students, authorities said.
Mar 03, 2026
Thirty-one classified employees in the Elk Grove Unified School District will lose their jobs next school year as the district eliminates positions funded by a COVID-19 recovery grant, district officials and the union confirmed.
Mar 03, 2026
A San Francisco math teacher was on indefinite leave Monday after administrators learned he required his students to solve quiz problems about a “fat kid” punted in the air and the monetary cost of dating girls based on their weight or “sexy points.”
Mar 03, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District is officially on the hook for providing high-dosage tutoring to students after a judge approved a settlement reached last fall.
Mar 03, 2026
The investigation that led to last week’s FBI raid at the home and office of schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho stemmed from a referral more than a year ago from New York prosecutors working a criminal fraud case involving a technology company with a Los Angeles Unified School District contract that went bust, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
Mar 03, 2026
California must allow teachers in its public schools to notify parents that their child identifies as transgender, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting a state policy that a lower court had upheld.
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