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Jun 04, 2026
While the situation played out in a building owned and partly occupied by the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, and employees of the agency were held hostage, Blakemore said it does not appear Searles-Harris was targeting KCSOS.
Jun 04, 2026
A shining night for Sem Yeto High seniors took a tragic turn Wednesday with a deadly shooting at Fairfield High School. One person was killed, and three others were injured in the shooting, which took place in the Schafer Stadium parking lot about an hour after the graduation ceremony began.
Jun 04, 2026
In Wednesday morning’s report from the County of Monterey Elections Department, Burns had 57% of the 42,894 votes counted, with all precincts reported, in the race for the Monterey County Superintendent of Schools. Ralph Porras, the deputy superintendent, was 14 percentage points behind.
Jun 04, 2026
The Paso Robles school district announced on Saturday that, after receiving complaints from the community, it was reviewing how the photos displaying profanity were allowed to be published in the school yearbook.
Jun 04, 2026
Despite indications the time was right for voters to approve a Novato Unified School District parcel tax increase, Measure G appears to be going down in flames. The measure, which proposed a supplemental tax of $249 per parcel annually for eight years — with no annual increase — was seen by many observers and supporters as a moderate request.
Jun 04, 2026
The San Francisco Unified School District and the San Francisco County Office of Education will expand special education services in the next academic year with a new program serving students in the fifth through 12th grades who have extensive support needs.
Jun 04, 2026
Oceanside Unified has decided to change the name of Cesar Chavez Middle School to Senda Middle School, months after the late labor leader for whom it was named was accused of sexual abuse.
Jun 03, 2026
Dan Burns, the former Superintendent for the Salinas Union High School District, the largest in Monterey County, has held onto his significant lead over challenger Monterey County Superintendent Ralph Porras in the contest to become the next Monterey County Superintendent of Schools.
Jun 03, 2026
In the Ventura County Superintendent of Schools race, school board member Karen Sher took an early lead in the June 2 primary, earning significantly more votes than incumbent César Morales. In early results released as of before 2 a.m. on June 3, Sher had 39.47%, or 45,845 of the votes counted so far, while educator Maggie Marschner had 33.57%, or 38,993 of the votes. Morales had 26.96%, or 31,315, of the votes.
Jun 03, 2026
With all precincts reporting, 3.411, or 70.37%, of voters backed Measure E, which would set an annual parcel tax of $1,754. The measure, which would raise $14.9 million and has a 5% annual escalator, requires two-thirds or 67.7% support to pass.
Jun 03, 2026
Measure H is the district’s second attempt for a parcel tax renewal and increase after the first try in May 2025 failed to win two-thirds approval. Graff said a “big part” of the apparent change in dynamics so far from last year’s race could be the switch from a per-square-foot parcel tax last year back to the standard flat-rate parcel tax system.
Jun 03, 2026
The tax would generate $5.9 million a year to maintain core academic programs such as math, science, reading and writing. It also would go toward attracting and retaining exceptional teachers and preventing class size increases, said Raquel Rose, the district superintendent.
Jun 03, 2026
Measure I, a $12.5 million bond measure in the Sausalito Marin City School District, was heading toward passage in preliminary returns on election night. With all precincts reporting, the measure had 775 yes votes, or 65.79% approval, compared to 403 no votes, or 34.21%.
Jun 03, 2026
Early returns in California’s primary election showed California Republican Party-endorsed Sonja Shaw and California Teachers Association-endorsed Richard Barrera leading the race to make it onto the November general election ballot for the position of state superintendent of schools.
Jun 03, 2026
Early returns Tuesday night showed a majority of the more than $688 million in school bonds and tax measures on Bay Area ballots trailing the threshold needed to pass.
Jun 02, 2026
The school closure is one of six over the span of two years in the Santa Rosa City School District and is part of a sweeping slate of cuts, closures and reconfigurations happening as district officials contend with the greatest financial crisis in the district’s more than 100-year history.
Jun 02, 2026
A San Rafael High School teacher accused of a relationship with a minor pleaded not guilty to a criminal charge. Kevin Eric Allen, 35, of San Rafael entered the plea on Friday to a misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a child under age 18.
Jun 02, 2026
The SLO County Behavioral Health Department’s “Pathways to Student Wellness” grant initiative will disperse $300,000 to help SLO County high schools expand their on-campus wellness centers, according to a Monday news release.
Jun 02, 2026
When it comes to campaign finance filings by candidates for the state superintendent of public instruction, the big movement in recent weeks has been in independent expenditures.
Jun 02, 2026
California’s next governor will inherit school district budget shortfalls, declining school enrollment and pressure to preserve education programs championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Jun 01, 2026
Don Arax, the former Bullard High School football coach, filed a lawsuit against the district and Trustee Keshia Thomas in 2022, alleging Thomas defamed him in an interview. During an interview on the GV Wire “Unfiltered” program, Thomas said the coach used the N-word against her son at a practice.
Jun 01, 2026
A teen girl who was repeatedly stabbed in class at San Ysidro High School last year is suing the school district and her ex-boyfriend — a fellow student who she accuses of stabbing her— and reveals new details of the attack, including that the assailant’s face was apparently wrapped in bandages.
Jun 01, 2026
With the school year ending, the Pasadena Unified School District is embarking on a major toxic-soil-removal project over the summer, which will include removing nearly 200 trees, district officials announced Friday.
Jun 01, 2026
Lillian Ansari’s daughter, Atrina, endured two years of hourslong commutes from Oakland to Marin to attend her nonpublic school.
May 29, 2026
The Santa Paula Unified School District has suspended several Isbell Middle School students for allegedly using smart glasses to take photos and create sexually explicit images of female classmates using artificial intelligence.
May 29, 2026
The Marin County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against a San Rafael High School teacher accused of having an illegal relationship with a minor. Kevin Eric Allen, 35, of San Rafael is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a child under age 18. The girl was 17 at the time of the offense, according to the criminal complaint.
May 29, 2026
On the one hand, Sonoma County’s largest district continues to take actions geared to digging out of a multimillion dollar deficit that earlier this calendar year raised the real threat of insolvency and state takeover. On the other, a majority of trustees voted Wednesday, May 27, to approve a $76,000 raise for the district’s top fiscal administrator, whose yearlong interim contract is up at the end of next month.
May 29, 2026
The Central Unified School District in Fresno amended board policies this week to close loopholes that allowed a district official to moonlight for a political action committee that he cofounded and that has been donating to local campaigns, raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
May 29, 2026
Modesto City Schools Superintendent Vanessa Buitrago has written a letter to local education and policy leaders asking to collaborate on solutions for the cost of healthcare for employees.
May 29, 2026
Oakland’s top education officials insisted this week that the district’s finances have improved so significantly in the past few months — or weeks — that the city should celebrate what is a moment of “real pride.”
May 28, 2026
Zarah Wyly, a program manager at Learning Among the Oaks, told the board she received an email from administrator notifying her that the district would no longer support the program, which has provided nature education to Atascadero elementary schoolers for over 20 years.
May 28, 2026
The Ventura County Board of Education will investigate and audit its own agency after Superintendent of Schools César Morales admitted twice to granting himself and his top deputies pay and benefits that weren’t authorized by the board.
May 28, 2026
The spokesperson for a Fresno-area school district said his off-hours work as cofounder of a $1.5 million political action committee does not conflict with his day job.
May 28, 2026
Modesto City Schools broke ground Tuesday on a shared school facility, funded by Measure X, that is part cafeteria and part multipurpose room.
May 27, 2026
After two decades of partnering with Santa Rosa City Schools for use of baseball fields across three high school campuses, the Redwood Empire Baseball League may be cutting ties with the school district that is now requiring the league to pay thousands to play ball.
May 27, 2026
A consultant’s report on potential Pasadena Unified School District school mergers said no student groups would be disproportionately harmed by any of the proposed campus closure scenarios. Instead, it formally echoed a theme long held by the district’s consultants at local meetings: That controversial proposals to merge certain schools into others would actually expand school programs.
May 27, 2026
Just a few years ago, America’s public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it well: “The idea was that technology is the future, so we need to put tech in every child’s hands.”
May 27, 2026
California’s top education associations and labor organizations across the state gathered in Sacramento last week to denounce a controversial plan by Gov. Gavin Newsom to suspend billions in state school funding.
May 27, 2026
California began screening all students in kindergarten through second grade this school year to determine whether they are at risk of developing reading difficulties, such as dyslexia, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark bill into law in 2023.
May 26, 2026
Thursday night marked the final open house of Whited Elementary. Rincon Valley Union School District trustees voted 5-0 in January to close the district’s oldest school in an effort to address an $8.5 million deficit.
May 26, 2026
Pomona school board members voted 4-1 at their Wednesday, May 13, meeting, to close Armstrong and blend the smaller campus with Golden Springs to address what administrators called “declining enrollment” at Armstrong over the past several years.
May 26, 2026
The staff report stated this has been a long-term agreement, and the current contract is expiring. The new contract would cover the next two school years. “CUHS will pay $131,500 in year one and $135,450 in year two to have a SRO on campus 210 days of the year."
May 26, 2026
Ventura County Superintendent of Schools César Morales handed his top deputies lifetime health benefits, a perk that’s become rare in the county's government agencies due to its high potential cost to taxpayers. The benefit was awarded without the knowledge of the Ventura County Board of Education, two board members told The Star.
May 26, 2026
The Lincoln Unified School District Board of Trustees approved a school reconfiguration plan May 20 that will convert Brookside School from a TK-8 campus into a TK-6 elementary school as the district prepares to open a second comprehensive middle school at Don Riggio School in the 2027-28 school year.
May 26, 2026
Davina Goldwasser, a Marin County resident, will be the new superintendent of Petaluma City Schools starting July 1, according to the announcement. The appointment was set to be finalized Tuesday night by the Board of Education during its regular meeting.
May 26, 2026
Petaluma City Schools district leaders are considering different options for a proposed $40 million project adjacent to Casa Grande High School that could result in a new performing arts center as well as potential housing for district employees, another school facility and more.
May 26, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District approved the layoffs of over 90 more employees Thursday night despite a decision from an administrative law judge that these employees should be reinstated for the 2026-27 school year.
May 26, 2026
Clovis Unified School District has raised the development impact fee by 8.9% on new residential construction, citing increased demand for school facilities due to prospective growth in enrollment.
May 26, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget could provide Sacramento City Unified with roughly $29 million in ongoing new funding, though it remains uncertain how much the money will alleviate pressure from the district’s unprecedented budget crisis.
May 26, 2026
San Diego County’s two highest-paid superintendents made well above half a million dollars a year each in total pay in 2024, data show.
May 26, 2026
The Modesto City Schools Board of Education held its final meeting of the school year Monday night, tackling teacher contract negotiations, a potential bond measure, physical education policies and student representation.
May 26, 2026
Pasadena Unified School Board President Tina Fredericks, under fire for her alleged role in a controversial proposal to merge campuses in the district, said on Friday, May 22, the school board is “evaluating” allegations that trustees violated the state law that governs public access to meetings.
May 26, 2026
It’s been nearly three months since Oakland teachers celebrated a decisive victory at the bargaining table after district officials gave in to nearly all their demands to avoid a strike.
May 26, 2026
California voters will soon choose the state’s next schools chief. But by the time the winner takes office, the job may no longer control the state Department of Education.
May 26, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision takes a significant step toward addressing California’s long-underfunded special education system.
May 26, 2026
Twin Rivers Unified School District teachers in Sacramento spent 12 days on strike in March, in part, because healthcare premiums for some teachers and their families had reached $1,600 a month — a growing burden now fueling labor battles in school districts across California.
May 22, 2026
A small group of San Luis Obispo parents and students are rallying to shore up staffing at school libraries, as budget cuts are expected to leave the district’s elementary schoolers without full-time librarians.
May 22, 2026
Hundreds of Modesto City Schools teachers packed the parking lot and streets outside the Monday night Board of Education meeting, holding signs and wearing Modesto Teachers Association shirts.
May 22, 2026
More than 1,000 Los Angeles school workers are expected to lose their jobs after the Board of Education on Thursday approved layoffs and, separately, after district management quietly terminated the employment of workers without tenure or other union job protections.
May 22, 2026
A San Francisco Bay Area school district has replaced a middle school math teacher for the remainder of the academic year following an investigation by KQED and ProPublica that showed he had been accused of inappropriately touching students at two previous jobs.
May 22, 2026
Backers of a lawsuit who claim that state funding to repair and update school facilities illegally favors wealthy school districts will ask a Superior Court judge Friday to expedite action in the case.
May 21, 2026
The middle school renovation is expected to cost approximately $95 million. Funding comes from the district’s $194 million Measure G bond, approved by voters in 2022.
May 21, 2026
Khimberly’s family in March filed a damages claim — a possible precursor to a lawsuit — against the Los Angeles Unified School District, contending the girl died because the district had failed to protect her despite previous warnings that she was being bullied.
May 21, 2026
After sending 37 preliminary layoff notices in March, the San Bernardino school district cut 12 non-teaching positions, but a district official said no employees lost their jobs.
May 21, 2026
The Ventura Unified School District has picked a company to begin negotiations on developing the property of the district office, one of four surplus properties that the district is trying to sell as it faces financial challenges.
May 21, 2026
The proposed legislation, which was introduced in March, aims to fill a gap in funding that has left SLO County schools and public agencies reeling after PG&E doled out its final mitigation payments in 2025.
May 21, 2026
The school placed Allen, a drama teacher, on administrative leave and worked with police on the investigation, Graham said. Detectives reviewed communications between Allen and the minor and obtained statements from the minor and witnesses.
May 21, 2026
Modesto City Schools heard a draft resolution Monday night for a bond measure that could appear on the November ballot.
May 21, 2026
A controversial adult charter school in Sacramento will remain open after the county Board of Education reversed a decision by Twin Rivers Unified School District to close the school.
May 21, 2026
When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children’s school, she’d always check Latino and Native American. After all, the family is proud of both its heritages.
May 20, 2026
The Pasadena Unified School District will conduct a year-long environmental impact report on the beloved tower at Eliot Arts Magnet Academy to determine whether the structure is safe to remain or will need to be demolished, its superintendent said.
May 20, 2026
The initial message was reported to the district, and Paso Robles High School administration and law enforcement determined there was no credible threat to the school, spokesperson Melissa Godsey told The Tribune on Tuesday.
May 20, 2026
San Rafael City Schools should make it easier for district employees to enroll their children at the school where they work, according to a group of parents. The group collected petitions with 182 signatures and presented them to the San Rafael Board of Education at its meeting on May 12.
May 20, 2026
A six-year-old boy died last week after a table fell on him during an afterschool program at a school in Burlingame, according to several reports.
May 20, 2026
The hearing room broke into emotional cheers Tuesday evening when the Sacramento County Board of Education voted to overturn Twin Rivers Unified School District’s decision to revoke the charter for Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, preventing the schools from being forcibly closed.
May 20, 2026
The ban would start at the beginning of the school year this fall. Older students would see screen-time limitations phased in over the 2026-27 school year.
May 19, 2026
Many Sonoma County elementary and middle school students are lagging far behind their California public school peers in making up for academic losses from online instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new national study shows.
May 19, 2026
César Morales, Ventura County’s superintendent of education, paid himself a $15,575 bonus in 2024 that was not approved by the Ventura County Board of Education, then repaid the money after people began to ask his office about it.
May 19, 2026
Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education President Tina Fredericks created her own consolidation plan that proposed closing six schools, public records show.
May 19, 2026
The top two Los Angeles school district administrators in charge of instruction during the recent rise in test scores are leaving as the school board moves on with major budget and student technology issues without its nationally acclaimed and now entirely silenced leader, Supt. Alberto Carvalho.
May 18, 2026
Since 1993, Inland Empire Community Foundation has managed a fund for Riverside Educational Enrichment Foundation, a nonprofit serving the students and teachers of Riverside United School District. REEF funding has become a valuable lifeline, providing grants to teachers and scholarships to students.
May 18, 2026
Temecula’s first student school board member closed her final meeting with fiery remarks calling out the board for what she called its unprofessional behavior. The Temecula school board has been criticized in recent months and accused of personal attacks and poor behavior on the dais.
May 18, 2026
Attorneys for the state of California have been accused of violating two court orders by withholding thousands of pages of evidence in a sexual abuse lawsuit involving a former student at California School for the Deaf-Riverside.
May 18, 2026
The Sausalito Marin City School District has appointed Jamal Graham, a former employee for 10 years, to the board of trustees. Graham, who retired last June as executive assistant in the superintendent’s office, was appointed unanimously to the provisional seat on Thursday.
May 18, 2026
Trustee Kevin Saavedra was accused by an unnamed complainant of violating financial disclosure rules for failing to disclose reportable investments. The case was dismissed on April 20 due to lack of evidence, said Christopher Burton, assistant chief of the FPPC’s enforcement division.
May 18, 2026
School districts across the Bay Area are asking voters to approve more than $688 million in school bonds and parcel tax measures in a last-ditch effort to avoid deep budget cuts to programs and teacher layoffs.
May 18, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed spending plan this week includes $2.4 billion in new ongoing investments for special education and paid pregnancy leave for teachers — issues teachers have brought front and center in the face of high living costs and staff retention struggles.
May 18, 2026
By the time California’s next superintendent of public instruction takes office early next year, the job could look very different. Until then, though, the 10 people running insist they’re committed to whatever it may look like — as they compete to make it past a crowded June 2 primary.
May 18, 2026
When a patient at Los Angeles General Medical Center experienced a medical emergency, Brandon Maldonado grabbed an intercom and called a “code blue” to bring immediate help from emergency hospital staff.
May 15, 2026
Until last month, California was poised to join nearly a dozen other states that ban cell phones in K-12 schools. But under pressure from school boards and administrators, lawmakers scaled back a bill that would have required such a blanket ban.
May 15, 2026
The Fresno Unified School Board voted to oppose the Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan on Wednesday by a narrow margin, reasoning that project could pull away students and funding.
May 15, 2026
The Murrieta Valley school board was met with a standing ovation after it unanimously agreed to send the $359 million measure to fund repairs and renovations to voters — just two years after a potential bond was stopped by two board members.
May 15, 2026
San Francisco’s superintendent of schools has agreed to testify before Congress in June at the request of a Republican-led committee that is pressing into the culture wars, targeting what they call an erosion of parental rights and the indoctrination and the sexualization of children in public education.
May 15, 2026
Public school districts were winners in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget proposal for next year, with boosted funding that includes $2.4 billion in ongoing increases for services to students with disabilities, money that education officials have said is badly needed as the number of children who need extra help grows.
May 15, 2026
During the presentation for his final budget proposal, Gov. Gavin Newsom said leaving a $0 deficit for the next few years was in the “spirit” of his predecessor, Jerry Brown, who left him an $8.9 billion surplus and a bolstered rainy day fund.
May 15, 2026
With one contentious exception, school districts can check off most items on their wish list for 2026-27 with the release on Thursday of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised state budget.
May 14, 2026
Conflicting over the district’s contribution to employees’ healthcare benefits, Ventura Unified, Ventura Unified Education Association and Ventura Education Support Professionals Association declared an impasse May 7.
May 14, 2026
One of the nation’s three major credit rating agencies has downgraded Sacramento City Unified School District’s bond rating, citing the district’s poor budget management and uncertainty over its plans to rebuild reserves.
May 14, 2026
The Board of Trustees of the San Diego Unified School District on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve agreements that will allow all staff members who would otherwise be laid off an opportunity to accept new positions within the district.
May 14, 2026
The Alvord school board has reduced the number of layoff notices it gave to administrators, but it’s not clear how many teachers, if any, will be laid off for next school year.
May 14, 2026
An Inland Empire high school water polo player’s mother is calling on two school board members to resign after accusing them of “sexualizing” members of the boys water polo team who were photographed wearing Speedos at a school baseball game.
May 14, 2026
A California law designed to help survivors of childhood sexual abuse seek justice is now creating difficult financial and legal challenges for school districts across the state.
May 14, 2026
Nearly a dozen school districts across California are being recognized for their significant improvements in both reading and math compared to their peers. It comes as the state lags behind others in its academic growth, according to newly released findings.
May 14, 2026
Facing a growing budget deficit, Fresno Unified School District, California’s third-largest, finalized hundreds of layoff notices this week, eliminating positions tied to mental health, foster youth services and chronic absenteeism interventions.
May 13, 2026
Fresno Unified trustees have given the green light to move forward with the school district’s proposed layoffs and “bumps” ahead of the 2026-27 school year. The board approved two resolutions to reduce or eliminate certain certificated and classified roles during a special meeting Monday afternoon.
May 13, 2026
A Pasadena Unified School District committee has recommended that no schools merge into others, a big victory for parents and other stakeholders who for months have decried a “consolidation” process they said would negatively impact students and neighborhoods and which itself they said was tainted.
May 13, 2026
Across the country, the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession — a slide in the reading skills of students that predates pandemic school disruption, but there are several relative bright spots in California that include the Modesto, Compton and Los Angeles school districts, researchers say.
May 13, 2026
Look for three key numbers affecting TK-12 funding when Gov. Gavin Newsom releases a much-anticipated revision of 2026-27 state budget on Thursday, known as the “May revision.” One big, one small and one huge.
May 13, 2026
State leaders’ recent attention to early literacy has led to funding and new programs to help close the literacy achievement gap. But math? The state hasn’t focused on it. And that neglect shows.
May 13, 2026
Students attending Compton Unified School District and Modesto City Schools are improving in reading faster than students in demographically similar districts amid what a team of researchers has identified as a national “reading recession.”
May 12, 2026
District leaders say the cuts are, in part, a result of lower projected revenue due to a new, controversial Santa Rosa City Schools policy that puts tighter limits on Santa Rosa students seeking to transfer out of the district and into neighboring systems including West Sonoma County Union High School District.
May 12, 2026
In the midst of strong public backlash, the Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s School Consolidation Advisory Committee voted Monday, May 11, on what, if any, school closure scenarios to recommend to the Board of Education for consideration.
May 12, 2026
The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals.
May 12, 2026
The $1 million project, slated to be completed this summer, is intended to improve the central outdoor gathering area of the Bantam Way campus, resulting in “a more functional and inviting outdoor space for students and staff,” said PCS Chief Business Officer Amanda Bonivert in an email to the Argus-Courier.
May 12, 2026
The Davis Joint Unified School District is preparing to tighten campus cellphone restrictions next school year, with junior high and high school students facing significantly stricter limits on when they can use their phones.
May 12, 2026
Over four-years, a Los Angeles school district manager enriched herself with $3 million in kickbacks by working with a tech company executive to deliver $22 million in work, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by the school district.
May 12, 2026
Educators, advocates and the state’s largest teachers’ union warn that a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom could delay help for students struggling to learn English.
May 12, 2026
The primary for the state’s top K-12 schools job is in less than a month, but judging from the polls, it’s debatable whether anyone is paying attention.
May 12, 2026
Jason Agan was impossible to miss at Angelo Rodriguez High School. The San Francisco Bay Area teacher was loud and gregarious, a fixture on campus since the Fairfield school opened in 2001.
May 12, 2026
Andrea Gillanders’ son, a third grader, attributes his testing anxiety to Fresno Unified School District’s implementation of i-Ready, a digital learning platform designed to help teachers identify learning gaps and personalize instruction.
May 11, 2026
Even with the money saved by layoffs, the board may need to decide on whether or not to enter a receivership or risk 5,000 employees not being paid come next school year.
May 11, 2026
Goodman, who is spearheading the fundraising, said the partnership is seeking to raise $1.675 million to fund the program over the next three years.
May 11, 2026
On Monday, May 11, the Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s School Consolidation Advisory Committee will be holding its seventh and final meeting, where it is scheduled to vote on sending school merger recommendations to the Board of Education.
May 11, 2026
Press advocacy groups are calling on the Tamalpais Union High School District to drop inquiries into coverage and cease censorship of the Redwood Bark, Redwood High School’s student newspaper.
May 11, 2026
The program has been contending with the declining availability of grand funding and trying to figure out, with the help of volunteers, a path to sustainability.
May 11, 2026
Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages. That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected.
May 11, 2026
The order of new elementary schools built in Folsom will change. On Thursday, the Folsom Cordova Unified School District school board approved shifting the building order of two elementary schools.
May 08, 2026
Becoming a new public school teacher in California means facing an impossible choice: work for a high-need school, making a full-time salary but with little support or training; or get the proper education and training but lose a year or more of wages.
May 08, 2026
Two Temecula school board members are facing backlash after their social media comments comparing a photo of uniformed high school water polo players to Chippendales exotic dancers and what’s seen on an adult content platform.
May 08, 2026
California K-12 schools have come a long way over the past 20 years, but according to an exhaustive overview of the state’s school system, further progress may require tinkering with a long-entrenched form of school governance: local control.
May 08, 2026
The mood in the Serna Center was decidedly grim Thursday night as the leader of a state financial agency told the Sacramento City Unified School District board that a state takeover is inevitable.
May 08, 2026
A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams.
May 08, 2026
More than a dozen American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in Clovis Unified have left for better-paying jobs in neighboring districts amid stalled negotiations over their first collective bargaining agreement.
May 07, 2026
Education officials across California are calling on the governor and state Legislature to scrap a plan to withhold billions in education funding that they say means more cuts for students and continues a harmful trend of underfunding.
May 07, 2026
Stanford University on Thursday released a sweeping research project that takes a 360-degree, immersive look at all aspects and operations of public education in California, from preschool through high school, from special education to teacher certification, enrollment decline to high school redesign.
May 06, 2026
Layoffs consist of the full-time equivalent of 12.8 certificated positions (including 10.8 teaching jobs), 21.6 classified jobs and 4.6 vacant classified posts. The reductions will save the district an estimated $3.25 million annually in employee salaries and benefits.
May 05, 2026
An anonymous Facebook post claimed that students in the Paso Robles school district were “found drugged in the bathrooms” — but the school district said the allegation is untrue.
May 06, 2026
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education on Thursday, May 7, is scheduled to vote on more than 280 layoffs as part of an ongoing budget reduction process.
May 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the Los Angeles school district for allegedly reassigning — rather than removing — teachers who have been accused of sexual misconduct, including those who have had “romantic relationships” with students.
May 06, 2026
When Tania Rivera’s son with autism ran out of school and into the street, no one noticed he was gone. Not the teacher or any school official. Rivera said she found out from another parent who saw him.
May 05, 2026
District administrators, including Abbasi, Superintendent Monica Anzo and former Superintendent Jim Koenig first presented the idea to the Board of Trustees in June 2023. The project is estimated to cost approximately $8 million, utilizing money from the District’s general funds, construction funds and a music and arts block grant.
May 05, 2026
It may come as a surprise to Californians who know the state has consistently ranked low in how much it spends on students compared to other states: California’s ranking has soared to the 13th-highest in the nation for how much it funds education per student.
May 04, 2026
Declining enrollment, standardized test scores and campus safety were the topics of conversation April 30 as the three candidates for Ventura County Superintendent of Schools engaged in their first debate. Incumbent César Morales, appointed in 2021 and elected for his first full term in 2022, faced off educator Maggie Marschner and school board member Karen Sher.
May 04, 2026
Tuolumne County voters will decide in the June 2 primary election between sticking with incumbent Superintendent of Schools Zack Abernathy for the next four years, or going in a different direction with challenger Gabe Wingo, marking only the second competitive bid for the county’s top education position in recent memory.
May 04, 2026
Sausalito Marin City School District teachers are seeking answers after a draft document surfaced offering the superintendent a new contract in exchange for dropping allegations of a hostile work environment.
May 04, 2026
Criminal charges filed against a teaching assistant at Sunset Elementary School accused of molesting a 4-year-old girl on the campus were dismissed Thursday due to insufficient evidence, officials said.
May 04, 2026
Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD) last month celebrated the groundbreaking for the final phase of its Innovation Campus.
May 01, 2026
Voters in La Verne and San Dimas will decide on Measure A, which would add $59 per $100,000 of assessed value of properties to tax bills. For the bond to pass, 55% of voters would have to be in favor.
May 01, 2026
A water polo coach with the Redlands Unified School District who is suspected of sexual crimes with a 15-year-old student was arrested Wednesday, April 29, Redlands police and school district officials said.
May 01, 2026
A 26-year-old school employee has been arrested on suspicion of child molestation and possession of child pornography, the Bakersfield Police Department reported Thursday.
May 01, 2026
The Napa Valley Unified School District isn’t seeing the rapid pace of enrollment drop-off it saw in prior years, and a recent report predicts those declines will continue at a slower pace.
May 01, 2026
A Napa County judge this week rejected claims the Napa Valley Unified School District made in a 2024 lawsuit that sought to effectively close a downtown Napa charter school.
May 01, 2026
Longtime Sacramento City Unified School District employee Cancy McArn was named the district’s permanent superintendent following a unanimous vote Thursday evening.
May 01, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $30.5 million to 19 more students who said they were victims of Mark Berndt, a convicted serial child molester, bringing the amount the district has paid out in connection with his crimes to more than $200 million, attorneys said Thursday.
May 01, 2026
San Francisco schools will revamp its loathed student assignment lottery system and consider closures by fall 2030 under a new plan to address two of the district’s most contentious issues.
Apr 30, 2026
They said 13 of the victims were students at Santa Paula Unified School District’s McKevett Elementary School, where Braff worked as a counselor from 2015 through 2019. He resigned seven months after the district placed him on paid administrative leave, according to previous reporting.
Apr 30, 2026
Del Norte Water Company, founded over a century ago, has provided the Mesa Union School District with water since its campus was built in 1939, officials said. While the school was not within Del Norte's service area, it reportedly started providing water to the campus on an emergency basis and later continued to do so.
Apr 30, 2026
Valladares, 41, was arrested in March after an investigation by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office. He allegedly entered an office on campus, got the PTA checkbook from a safe and wrote a check to himself for $7,000, sheriff’s Lt. Brennan Collins said.
Apr 30, 2026
To offset the rising costs, the program has been infused with new funds, including additional tax revenue — pending final approval of an expenditure plan — and some buy-in from schools to help maintain the service.
Apr 30, 2026
Voters in La Verne and San Dimas will decide on Measure A, which would add $59 per $100,000 of assessed value of properties to tax bills. For the bond to pass, 55% of voters would have to be in favor.
Apr 30, 2026
Valley of the Moon Teachers Association members have approved a tentative contract agreement with Sonoma Valley Unified School District that would provide certificated employees with a salary increase of 1%, retroactive to July 1, 2025, and an additional 1% increase, retroactive to Jan. 1.
Apr 30, 2026
The Central Unified school board voted Tuesday to oppose the Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan backed by Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, making it the school district in the area to take a public stance on the mega-development plan.
Apr 30, 2026
The Little Lake school district in southeast Los Angeles County and its teachers union reached a tentative agreement Monday night, ending one of the longest teacher strikes in state history after its 200-member union walked out over significant issues straining districts throughout California.
Apr 30, 2026
Nearly two years after California voters approved billions of dollars in bond money to repair aging schools, demand has outstripped the available funds.
Apr 30, 2026
Education is not a central issue in California’s crowded governor’s race, but the candidates addressing it offer sharply different visions, from expanding school funding and free college, to stricter teacher accountability and restrictions on transgender students in sports.
Apr 29, 2026
Monterey County Office of Education breaks ground on a $42 million conference center on April 28, 2026, in Salinas, Calif. The state-of-the-art center will replace aging portables and be a hub for professional development and house preschool and migrant services.
Apr 29, 2026
Tehachapi school officials face legal accusations they failed to properly screen or duly report the misdeeds of a physical education teacher who has been criminally charged with sexually inappropriate activity with several of his students.
Apr 27, 2026
A Westlake High School teacher is suing Conejo Valley Unified School District, alleging she was placed on leave after raising concerns about how the administration handled students’ reports of sexual assault.
Apr 29, 2026
In the wake of a deadly shooting at Natomas High school in mid April, parents, students and local officials in the North Sacramento community are mourning the death of a Black teenage boy and looking for solutions surrounding campus safety.
Apr 29, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District’s sustainability manager is pushing to make electric buses 80% of the district’s fleet within five years — a goal she says will save money and cut emissions.
Apr 29, 2026
Dozens of Oakland school principals, warning of dire conditions in classrooms, urged district leaders this week to stop stalling and do what has to be done: Close schools and pick a permanent superintendent.
Apr 29, 2026
Student enrollment in the Clovis Unified School District has reached a record high, making it the 11th largest school district in California, according to enrollment data released by the California Department of Education.
Apr 29, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to shift control of the Department of Education from the state superintendent of public instruction to a new education commissioner under future governors’ authority passed its first test in the Legislature last week — but probably not the way Newsom expected.
Apr 28, 2026
For the first time in 20 years, the San Francisco Unified School District will update its history and social-studies textbooks for elementary and high school students.
Apr 28, 2026
Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial.
Apr 28, 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 28, 2026
A draft of the 2026-27 Local Control and Accountability Plan will be the focus of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees during its study session on Tuesday, April 28.
Apr 27, 2026
The Little Lake City School District governing board on Sunday unanimously approved Monica Johnson as the district’s interim superintendent, just days after the district’s top administrator announced his retirement amid a teachers strike now heading into its third week.
Apr 27, 2026
That process comes as the district faces serious enrollment declines, rising costs, economic uncertainty and a $30 million structural deficit that have already led to staff cuts and stark warnings from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, an oversight agency.
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.
Apr 24, 2026
But the new, positive budget certification that came in the wake of the latest round of deep job cuts, sweeping program changes and loss of key student support services was met with a show of force and sharp criticism from the district’s teachers and other unionized school staff.
Apr 24, 2026
A federal judge has ordered two former Patterson school district officials to repay a combined $750,000 following their convictions in a $1.5 million embezzlement scheme, according to court records filed this week.
Apr 24, 2026
The policy adheres to state legislation, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, requiring districts to ban or limit smartphone use on campus during school hours. The Phone-Free School Act mandates that school districts, charter schools and county education offices develop a policy by July 1.
Apr 24, 2026
The top candidates vying to be California’s next superintendent of public instruction took the stage for two virtual forums this week, detailing how they would handle achievement gaps, artificial intelligence concerns, LGBTQ+ protections and more.
Apr 24, 2026
While Muratsuchi wanted a bell-to-bell ban for students from kindergarten through high school, arguing that kids’ focus will slip if they’re allowed to whip out phones between classes or during lunch, he “reluctantly” agreed during the hearing to exempt high schools from the ban.
Apr 24, 2026
Wednesday evening’s board discussion came weeks before the board is expected to vote again whether to take a public stance on SEDA, a 9,000-acre mega-development project in southeast Fresno that district officials fear could worsen Fresno Unified’s declining enrollment.
Apr 24, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District’s former top financial officer alleges that the board of trustees knowingly made financial decisions that worsened the financial crisis, according to documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee.
Apr 24, 2026
When asked how the district would prepare for maintenance, Ralston said the district already spends approximately $25,000 per year districtwide to maintain and test its existing artificial turf fields, and that the cost of adding Crocker/Riverside to that contract would be “minimal.”
Apr 24, 2026
A special board meeting Thursday night marked the first official discussion about the future of the district’s schools. The conversation is complicated but necessary as the district faces a budget crisis that projects a $390 million deficit by the end of the 2027-28 school year.
Apr 24, 2026
More than half the nation’s public preschool enrollment gain — some 25,000 students — came in California, which this year made every 4-year-old eligible for its “transitional kindergarten” program, or “TK.”
Apr 24, 2026
Santa Rosa City Schools, a former instructional aide at its continuation campus and his estranged spouse, who is a principal at a different high school, are named in a negligence lawsuit filed by a 20-year-old woman whom the aide sexually touched while assisting her in a program for adults with disabilities.
Apr 23, 2026
Antonio-Leon was arrested without incident and transported to the Northern Branch Jail, where he was booked on felony possession of a firearm on school grounds, according to the release.
Apr 23, 2026
A lawsuit filed last week on behalf of a student at Del Oro High accuses the school’s district, principal and music teacher of failing to protect her from a band coach who faces criminal charges of having sex with her when she was just 15 years old.
Apr 23, 2026
The Napa Valley Unified School District board voted to censure Trustee Julianna Villegas Hart on Wednesday, April 22, for alleged violations of board policies and norms in recent months.
Apr 23, 2026
An East Bay Jewish teenager sued her principal, two former teachers and her school district this week, alleging “pervasive and unrelenting” antisemitic harassment and discrimination over two years leading to panic attacks and a precipitous drop in her GPA.
Apr 23, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District board this week approved a six-figure salary for Acting Superintendent Andres Chait while Superintendent Alberto Carvalho remains on paid leave.
Apr 23, 2026
Voters are set to decide on two Oakley Union Elementary School District bond measures totaling $123 million that are intended to repair and upgrade schools, and enhance student safety.
Apr 23, 2026
An early education teacher in California’s Central Valley may soon be forced out of the classroom as delays in renewing her immigration status and work authorization stretch far beyond the usual timeline. Her renewal is still “processing.”
Apr 22, 2026
The Napa Valley Unified School District board is scheduled to consider censuring Trustee Julianna Villegas Hart at a special meeting Wednesday night, April 22, for allegedly violating board policies and governance norms over the past few months.
Apr 22, 2026
Striking Little Lake City School District teachers on Tuesday continued their push to overhaul the district’s school board, mailing notices of intent to recall all five trustees, a day after contract negotiations ended with no progress.
Apr 22, 2026
The rescinded layoffs come a month after the board approved potential moves to save the district more than $2 million as it looks to ultimately cut over $4 million from the 2026-27 budget.
Apr 22, 2026
To help mitigate a growing budget deficit, Fresno Unified is considering making cuts to its number of mental health specialists, which saw significant growth following the pandemic.
Apr 22, 2026
In 2016, more than 41,000 kids attended one of the 71 sites in Sacramento City Unified School District. Today that enrollment number has dwindled to around 36,000. Despite hemorrhaging 10% of its students in under a decade, the district still operates the same number of schools.
Apr 22, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously voted to curb classroom screen time, directing staff to develop a policy by June ahead of the upcoming school year.
Apr 22, 2026
LAUSD is seeking to double its infant care centers and expand early education programs for toddlers, a plan that aims to push the district deeper into the child-care industry, provide affordable day care and eventually bolster dwindling district enrollment.
Apr 21, 2026
The Fairfax School District agreed Monday to pay $5 million to an anonymous victim of sexual abuse by a teacher more than a decade ago.
Apr 21, 2026
The Petaluma City Schools Board of Education has approved a resolution directing all district campuses to fly the pride flag throughout the school year.
Apr 21, 2026
Fresno Unified’s projected budget deficit for the upcoming school year has grown to $88 million, the district said, a 49 percent increase from just February.
Apr 21, 2026
The Palo Verde school board will consider censuring one of its members at the Tuesday, April 21, meeting, after he reportedly spoke with with Riverside County District Attorney’s office investigators.
Apr 21, 2026
Student classroom screen time would be cut way back under a proposal expected to win approval Tuesday from the Los Angeles Board of Education, a remarkable reversal of years-long initiatives to equip students with computers and internet access — and a move that comes amid growing parental pushback on devices.
Apr 21, 2026
In a report released this week, Auditors with Crowe LLP, an accounting and consulting firm, said unsustainable expenses, declining enrollment and leadership turnover have created “substantial doubt” that the district will be able to pay its bills and stay afloat in the near future.
Apr 21, 2026
Over the past year, at the Stanislaus County education office in Modesto, about a dozen parents have met monthly for two-hour sessions to learn computer skills.
Apr 20, 2026
Citing faulty materials and well before the expiration of a 10-year warranty, Santa Rosa City Schools officials have OK’d the removal and replacement of synthetic turf athletic fields at all five of their junior senior high school campuses.
Apr 20, 2026
The Sonoma County Office of Education has signed off on Santa Rosa City School’s positive budget certification, signaling it thinks the district may be on its way to fiscal solvency.
Apr 20, 2026
Jennifer Moe, who serves as a school board member for the Shandon Joint Unified School District, is accused of stealing property from Target on Dec. 20 of last year, according to a court complaint filed in January.
Apr 20, 2026
When the heads of three Los Angeles Unified School District unions stood side by side at City Hall to announce their new contracts after nearly going on strike hours earlier, one of them looked out of place.
Apr 20, 2026
For the third straight year, environmental activists and California lawmakers are locked in a tug-of-war over a pool of state funds created to upgrade heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in schools to curb disruptions and closures attributed to extreme weather.
Apr 20, 2026
School closures are an incendiary issue in nearly every corner of California, as enrollment declines and expenses climb. The topic has sparked parent revolts, teacher strikes and school boards’ desperate attempts to keep districts financially afloat.
Apr 20, 2026
The latest student enrollment figures have sent a shock wave through California’s education system. True, the downward trend of enrollment in the state’s transitional kindergarten to 12th grade is no longer a surprise.
Increasingly organized groups of parents advocating for an immediate return to class are emerging as a potent political counterweight to teachers unions.
The teachers union in Sacramento City Unified School District released its framework for reopening for in-person learning on Tuesday, and the plan prioritizes offering the COVID-19 vaccine to all of its 4,500 district employees.
Experts have found that remote instruction falls far short of classroom learning. But surveys have shown that a majority of Black and Latino parents in Los Angeles are still hesitant about sending their children back into schools.
Some teachers are reluctant to return to classroom settings as Orange County students resume at least some in-person learning. So substitute teachers might be in demand more than ever before.
Santa Clara County schools have the green light starting Wednesday to usher in a phased return to real face-to-face lessons. But the vast majority are opting instead to stay the course through the rest of the semester.
At Lucerne Valley Elementary in Southern California’s high desert, hundreds of students have returned to in-person learning and a dramatically different school day.
Pleasanton is the latest city to take a hard look at the role of police in the community and schools — and how to respond to mental health calls. The city agreed to revise its police use of force policies and possibly remove school resource officers.
Rescue Union School District, home to 3,700 students at its five elementary schools and two middle schools, is able to open since the county has remained off of the state’s monitoring list and complied with the long list of requirements to reopen.
Masks will be required at every level. In elementary schools, half of students will end their day at lunchtime, before the other half arrives. Middle and high school kids will trade off and spend two days a week on campus.
At the June 23 Oceanside Unified School Board meeting, Trustee Mike Blessing asked staff to present an option for “100 percent return” in the fall, District Communications Director Matthew Jennings said.