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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.
Apr 30, 2025
It's no coincidence Kern nabbed a disproportionately large share of the 1,000-bus initiative: The program targeted school districts in rural areas serving poor or disadvantaged communities.
Apr 30, 2025
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has nudged parties at odds on how early literacy should be taught to agree to legislation that could significantly advance reading proficiency in California.
Apr 30, 2025
Anaheim Union High School District board members are looking to increase funding for public schools as they join the statewide “We Can’t Wait” campaign.
Apr 30, 2025
Monárrez was leading a Massachusetts school district, where she was involved in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Education Department.
Apr 30, 2025
The Oakland teachers union announced a one-day strike set for Thursday, saying the district has “refused to provide basic financial transparency” and keep cuts away from schools.
Apr 30, 2025
Last year, a Washington Post investigation identified more than 200 school police officers across the country “who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.”
Apr 30, 2025
Many California school districts’ contracts for policing services do not prohibit officers from involvement in routine student disciplinary matters, despite the federal government’s guidance that administrators are responsible for handling those issues, an EdSource investigation found.
Apr 30, 2025
A former Ventura County school counselor, who was arrested in November on suspicion of molesting eight young children, has been charged with 14 additional felony counts of lewd acts upon a child after five more victims came forward, authorities said.
Apr 30, 2025
A bill that could reshape literacy education in California elementary schools cleared a major hurdle in the Legislature this week after dueling sides reached a compromise that provides funding for phonics-based instruction but stops short of requiring it.
Apr 30, 2025
The Redland Unified School District Board approved a resolution to enforce “fairness in girls’ interscholastic sports,” placing the Inland Empire district in the middle of escalating conflicts over transgender students’ rights.
Apr 29, 2025
The north Santa Rosa campus drains significantly more money from the district than its other two charter schools because of transportation, property insurance and loan costs for the site, which has experienced declining enrollment.
Apr 29, 2025
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District board of trustees unanimously agreed to direct district staff members to explore options for closing Flowery Elementary School at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
Apr 29, 2025
We began by sending requests for contracts and memoranda of understanding with law enforcement agencies under the California Public Records Act to nearly 20% – 178 – school districts across the state, in urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Apr 29, 2025
The state of California has awarded a half-billion dollars to school districts and educational agencies across the state to help add 1,000 zero-emission school buses and chargers — with a portion of that money going to 12 districts in San Diego County.
Apr 29, 2025
Many California school districts pay cities and counties millions of dollars a year to put law enforcement officers on campuses, moving tax dollars allocated for education to policing with little oversight by elected school boards, an EdSource investigation found.
Apr 28, 2025
Among teachers, concern is mounting that for all of the disruption the junior/senior high configuration is causing, it will not elicit the needed budget savings, miring the district in a fiscal crisis that will ultimately require more painful measures, including additional school closures.
Apr 28, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education has put Marin school districts on notice that they risk losing federal funding if they use diversity, equity and inclusion programs to give advantages to one race over another.
Apr 28, 2025
California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses on the road as federal cuts and freezes paused efforts in other states to replace aging diesel-fueled fleets that are more polluting.
Apr 28, 2025
Long before Misty Her became superintendent of Fresno Unified, she was a kindergarten student struggling to learn how to read at Jefferson Elementary in the 1980s — about a mile from the school district’s downtown headquarters.
Apr 28, 2025
When Rialto Unified school board member Edgar Montes apologized recently for his “inadvertent” vote to hire his mother for a district job, in violation of board bylaws, he neglected to mention that he had done it before.
Apr 28, 2025
California issued 18% more teaching credentials last school year, compared with the previous year, but education experts remain only cautiously optimistic.
Apr 25, 2025
"With the C2C Student Pathways Dashboard now live, Californians can visualize their futures by seeing disconnected data from across sectors and previously unavailable insights, all in one place,” Newsom said in a statement.
Apr 25, 2025
The West Sonoma County Union High School District is planning an Academy of Innovative Arts for the former El Molino campus, as well as a $27 million career center at Analy High School.
Apr 25, 2025
Manieri cited personal health concerns and negative interactions with members of the public who objected to stances she has taken as a school board member.
Apr 25, 2025
The Oakland Unified School District elected-board officially fired the superintendent on Wednesday at a contentious meeting where they gave no reasoning for the dismissal.
Apr 25, 2025
The Trump administration has taken aim at a key assumption of federal civil rights enforcers and California’s school discipline strategy: that large racial disparities are a red flag for discrimination.
Apr 25, 2025
California K-12 schools got a reprieve today when a judge blocked President Donald Trump’s order to eliminate diversity programs or risk losing federal funding.
Apr 24, 2025
The embattled superintendent, who had only been on the job 10 months, had been under fire for her handling of a district-wide restructuring and was the subject of an overwhelming no-confidence vote by teachers.
Apr 24, 2025
As the federal government threatens funding cuts over school diversity programs, California says it already complies with federal law and that the Trump administration’s actions are illegal.
Apr 24, 2025
Daisy Morales, who was the subject of a recent no-confidence vote by 97% of the district's teachers and staff, has made a number of controversial administrative moves over the past year.
Apr 24, 2025
The board voted 4 to 1, with trustee Mark Koerner voting no, to approve a resolution asking staff to weigh the benefits and risks of guaranteeing income for up to 27 apartments at the planned Oak Hill Apartments complex near San Quentin.
Apr 24, 2025
The Redlands Unified School District, which is located in Southern California (roughly 63 miles east of Los Angeles in San Bernardino County) approved a motion to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls sports.
Apr 24, 2025
Fresno Unified trustees selected interim Superintendent Misty Her as the full-time leader, making her the first woman to lead the state’s third-largest district since its inception in 1873.
Apr 24, 2025
The Oakland school board voted Wednesday to replace the district’s longtime superintendent, giving her a payout to step aside at the end of this school year, officials confirmed, rather than wait until the end of her contract in the summer of 2027.
Apr 24, 2025
On a recent Monday morning in Wendell Norris Marquez’s classroom in Austin, Texas, students were getting ready to read a story in Spanish by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But first, they discussed the differences between a story and a novel, and between a story and a legend.
Apr 24, 2025
Trump’s U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into the California Interscholastic Federation, which oversees sports at more than 1,500 high schools, explicitly threatening California funding, but has not yet moved to cut off those dollars.
Apr 23, 2025
Contention brewed at a packed Lucia Mar school board meeting last week as dozens of people showed up in either support or against transgender students’ use of the bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identities.
Apr 23, 2025
Board of Education Trustees appointed David M. Toston on Wednesday after five months of political instability and division following the controversial firing of former superintendent Mary Ann Dewan in October. He will begin his new role May 1.
Apr 23, 2025
Heartland Charter School in Kern County has several dream field trips on the calendar this spring, including tours of In-N-Out Burger, an Amtrak train ride along the Central Coast and a matinee performance of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at the Hollywood Pantages.
Apr 23, 2025
Jake, a 17-year-old junior, is beginning to think about life after he graduates from Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego County. This is a daunting task for any teen, but his mother, Angela, says it’s been especially thorny for Jake, who is on the autism spectrum, has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and struggles with anxiety.
Apr 23, 2025
The proposal by state Sen. Susan Rubio, a Democrat from West Covina, has stirred up broad opposition as well as support from dozens of organizations. It pits police, prosecutors and school employee groups against youth and disability advocates and the ACLU.
Apr 22, 2025
President Donald Trump has promised to keep special education intact, even as he dismantles the federal department that has overseen it for nearly a half century. But some experts and parents in California fear Trump’s policies will imperil the program on multiple fronts.
Apr 22, 2025
San Francisco school officials are within reach of a balanced budget after whittling down a $114 million deficit predicted in the upcoming academic year, a fiscal crisis so severe they faced insolvency and a state takeover.
Apr 21, 2025
According to a news release posted to DPD's Facebook page Thursday, school staff at Morningside Elementary, 2100 Summer Drive, received an anonymous call about a potential shooting at the school at 4 p.m. March 21 — 27 days before the news release.
Apr 21, 2025
Sonoma Valley Unified School District’s board of trustees has established four goals to address the district’s financial woes and has directed staff members to provide information to help achieve its objectives.
Apr 21, 2025
Most students at Pope Valley Elementary stayed home this week as parents launched a boycott over teacher firings, midyear staffing changes and what they call a hostile environment for Latino families.
Apr 21, 2025
The mother of Rialto Unified school board member Edgar Montes has resigned her position as a Nutrition Services worker for the district following a Southern California News Group inquiry about Montes’ vote to hire her more than two years ago.
Apr 21, 2025
Californians’ confidence in their public schools and approval of how Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature are handling public education have fallen sharply since the Covid pandemic, according to an annual survey on K-12 education released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).
Apr 21, 2025
In January, the Palo Alto school board met to discuss requiring high schoolers to take courses covering the displacement of Native Americans and the Black Panthers’ role in the Civil Rights Movement. For one school board member, the day ended with death threats.
Apr 17, 2025
Gilroy Unified School District has reached a new contract with its teachers after negotiations finished late Tuesday.
Apr 17, 2025
Only 38% of third graders in Sacramento County are reading at grade level, according to a report from the nonprofit Sacramento Literacy Foundation. These rates, researchers said, is a “crisis.”
Apr 17, 2025
The Santa Clara County Office of Education and the Santa Clara County Board of Education are co-sponsoring a California bill that would establish school campuses as safe havens from immigration enforcement activity, as fears around deportations and arrests ramp up in Bay Area communities amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on noncitizens.
Apr 16, 2025
Furthermore, data shows that some of California’s rural students, as well as males and students of color, don’t enroll in and complete these courses at the same rate as others.
Apr 16, 2025
After several broad discussions yielding little, the three main opponents — the California Teachers Association, the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), and Californians Together — released statements within the past month opposing the latest version of the legislation.
Apr 16, 2025
Of the 47 classified and classified management positions initially set to be eliminated at Modesto City Schools, only three employees were unable to secure new roles within the district.
Apr 16, 2025
Pasadena Unified School District officials updated the community on the impact of the Eaton fire, financial struggles and future renovations to district infrastructure Tuesday, April 15, during the annual State of Schools event.
Apr 16, 2025
Six former Mountain View School District students molested by a teacher won their lawsuit against the district and their ex teacher and were awarded $48 million by a jury on Monday, April 14.
Apr 16, 2025
A security guard at a Riverside high school was arrested on suspicion of arranging to meet a minor for sex and committing other crimes on Tuesday, April 15, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office and the Riverside Unified School District.
Apr 16, 2025
While the state does require students to receive certain vaccines, some students can claim medical exemptions, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Apr 16, 2025
Preliminary test results from soil, soil vapor and water samples taken at Mill Valley Middle School indicate a minute health or cancer risk from long-term exposure to a potential contaminant.
Apr 15, 2025
A petition circling San Luis Obispo County is calling on local school districts to roll back policies that allow transgender students to participate in sports and use the bathrooms and locker rooms aligned with their gender identities.
Apr 15, 2025
The Pasadena Unified School District will work with the Pasadena Public Health Department to test lead levels in the soil near area schools, in the wake of recent findings that areas downwind of the Eaton fire had levels of lead exceeding public health thresholds, Superintendent Elizabeth Blanco said Sunday night.
Apr 15, 2025
The Marin County Civil Grand Jury is calling on Novato Unified School District to delve deeper into discipline and discourse to keep campuses safe.
Apr 15, 2025
The tide of uncertainty that's roiled financial markets is raising new concerns about California's underfunded retirement systems for millions of teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public sector employees.
Apr 15, 2025
The proposed lease of an 11.36-acre site in Newport Beach is gaining the attention of local environmental groups, who are claiming an Orange County school district violated state law during the search for developers.
Apr 15, 2025
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) and other House Democrats are demanding that Department of Homeland Security officials justify their attempts last week to speak with students at two Los Angeles elementary schools.
Apr 14, 2025
Marin Transit, which manages the Measure AA fund for the county’s yellow school bus programs, has approved a three-year funding cycle amounting to about $1.1 million annually.
Apr 14, 2025
Concerned about the rebranding costs that would be needed if Altimira Middle School is renamed, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District board of trustees voted unanimously to postpone a decision on the matter for one year.
Apr 14, 2025
Superintendent Daisy Morales said the district is making progress on its massive restructuring and also addressed the fallout that has led to questions about her leadership.
Apr 14, 2025
The Trump administration has sent a letter to all states asking them to certify that DEI initiatives will not be implemented at schools or risk losing federal funding.
Apr 14, 2025
Parents say instability, uncertainty, feeling unheard top reasons they’re pulling students from Sonoma County’s biggest district.
Apr 14, 2025
Proponents of Measure E, the property tax proposal in the Ross Valley School District, are defending the plan against critics who say it would be too costly for some owners.
Apr 14, 2025
In separate decisions, the department ordered both the Campbell Union High School District and Santa Clara Unified to provide anti-discrimination training, and in the case of Santa Clara Unified, training in students’ rights against retaliation.
Apr 14, 2025
In 1971 California’s Supreme Court issued one of its most important and far-reaching decisions, declaring that the state’s system of financing public schools — primarily via locally levied property taxes — was unconstitutionally unfair.
Apr 14, 2025
California on Friday defied a Trump administration order to certify that the state’s 1,000 school districts have ended all diversity, equity and inclusion programs despite federal threats to cut billions of dollars in education funding if the state does not comply.
Apr 11, 2025
The Petaluma City Schools district has released and adopted an annual plan that outlines its transportation services – offering a look at the costs the district shoulders in transporting students and how it may try to solve the thorny issue of extracurricular trips in the coming year.
Apr 11, 2025
Nine Marin teachers and classified staff unions have formed a new coalition to push for better wages and greater staff retention in the county.
Apr 11, 2025
Clovis Unified plans to use funds from a state grant intended to raise student attendance and achievement toward investing in professional development in early literacy for teachers and behavioral counseling for students.
Apr 11, 2025
Sacramento-area school districts said it’s too early to know which school programs might be affected by Trump administration threats to cut federal education funding as it seeks to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Apr 11, 2025
After the Palisades Fire destroyed her son's high school, Shoshanha Essakhar found herself among the thousands of Los Angeles County parents wondering what to do. A potential solution came by way of an executive order California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Jan. 14.
Apr 11, 2025
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto Carvalho confirmed Thursday morning that the district denied campus entry earlier this week to Department of Homeland Security officials seeking information about five students in first through sixth grades.
Apr 11, 2025
The Trump administration overstepped its authority when it cut short pandemic relief grants for K-12 schools, a move that cost them hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit filed today by California and a dozen other states.
Apr 10, 2025
The Oakland school board is considering whether to push out the district’s longtime superintendent, a board member told the Chronicle, a move that would create more upheaval amid a fiscal crisis, possible school closures and threats of a wildcat teacher strike.
Apr 10, 2025
Federal officials arrived and were denied entry at two L..A. Unified elementary schools this week, district officials confirmed Wednesday, the first reported instance of an attempt by U.S. authorities to enter a Los Angeles public school amid concerns of immigration enforcement.
Apr 10, 2025
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced Wednesday that 19 school attendance review boards (SARBs) statewide have been designated as model programs for exemplary practices in improving student attendance.
Apr 10, 2025
The spate of jarring incidents at schools in Sonoma County’s largest school district over the last two years — and the district’s response to them — has prompted some parents to call for stricter security, more transparency from district officials and additional resources for students.
Apr 09, 2025
Shasta County schools stand to lose millions of dollars if the Trump administration follows through on its efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, local officials said.
Apr 09, 2025
The Fremont Unified District Teachers Association and Fremont Unified School District officials met Monday in a fact-finding session that stretched until 2 a.m. Tuesday, the union said. After hours of discussion, the two sides failed to reach an agreement.
Apr 09, 2025
In spite of statewide initiatives to increase access to and participation in computer science classes, California lags behind the national average of 60% and trails about three dozen other states in the percentage of high schools offering at least one computer science course.
Apr 08, 2025
A high court on Friday overturned the dismissal of a 2023 lawsuit involving gender expression at Chico Unified School District, opening the case of an alleged “parental secrecy policy” by the district for further analysis.
Apr 08, 2025
California’s foster care students have improved their high school graduation rates since 2013, but have barely improved, or even lost ground, in rates of suspension, attendance and prompt college enrollment, according to a new report.
Apr 08, 2025
California education officials have signaled they could defy a Trump administration order intended to end all diversity, equity and inclusion programs — even as federal officials threaten to cut off billions of dollars per year in federal education funding.
Apr 08, 2025
Alum Rock Union Elementary District in East San Jose was out of time. By last fall, it had spent down most of its savings; enrollment, more than 16,000 K-8 students in the early 2000s, had dropped to 7,300 and was headed to under 6,000. The state was threatening to take it over.
Apr 07, 2025
Courtney Goode, an assistant superintendent at the Escondido Union High School District, was chosen from a pool of candidates. His contract and salary amount are still pending approval later this month.
Apr 07, 2025
Roughly a week after Coachella Valley Unified apologized for "inadvertently" turning away a U.S. Border Patrol recruiter from a career fair at Coachella Valley High School, a few school board members briefly addressed the incident at its latest meeting last week.
Apr 07, 2025
With two months left before summer break, San Francisco schools’ superintendent disclosed what led to the special education fiasco at the start of the school year, which left nearly 200 vulnerable students without their legally mandated teachers and other support staff.
Apr 07, 2025
As Bay Area schools face multimillion dollar budget deficits and the Trump administration has threatened to withhold federal education dollars, a new bill from a South Bay Democrat aims to level the playing field and stabilize school funding in California.
Apr 07, 2025
The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading curriculum.
Apr 07, 2025
The Supreme Court ruled for the Trump administration on Friday and lifted a judge’s order that had blocked the canceling of $148 million in grants for recruiting and training new teachers in California and millions more nationwide.
Apr 07, 2025
A dozen teachers in Pasadena, Calif., whose homes burned were told they’ll lose their jobs at the end of the school year, a crisis for educators and students alike.
Apr 04, 2025
Carissa Plains Elementary School families are hoping to get a new teacher in their remote schoolhouse to help middle school students avoid long and exhausting bus rides to and from Atascadero each day.
Apr 04, 2025
The petition was launched in opposition to the union’s pending state Public Employees Relations Board complaint over the district’s hiring practices last summer for a new food service coordinator.
Apr 04, 2025
The First District Court of Appeal on March 12 ruled that because Kuo was working in a volunteer capacity that day she is only “entitled to workers’ compensation benefits” for “any injury sustained.”
Apr 04, 2025
Staring down millions of dollars in liability claims involving teachers accused of sexual abuse, school districts across California fear that a change in state law that revived hundreds of old cases could push them into bankruptcy.
Apr 04, 2025
The Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on K-12 schools in California and across the nation to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices by giving districts and states a deadline of 10 days to certify their compliance or risk losing all federal funding.
Apr 03, 2025
Senate Bill 48, authored by State Senate Lena Gonzalez (D- Long Beach) and sponsored by Thurmond, will “address safety concerns of immigrant families and protect school funding that is projected to decline in some parts of the state as attendance is suppressed as undocumented individuals fear deportation consequences at school,” a news release said.
Apr 03, 2025
More than 80% of L.A. Unified students qualify for a free or reduced-price school meal. But this food aid appears to have become be another chess piece in the joust between California and the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure state and local officials to follow its edicts.
Apr 02, 2025
Parents say the single-school district in northern Napa County has been plagued for months by instability, racial discrimination and a lack of transparency.
Apr 02, 2025
A strike could begin as early as next week, when the Fremont Unified District Teachers Association and Fremont Unified School District officials will meet for a fact-finding session, in what the union is calling a final chance to avoid a walk out.
Apr 02, 2025
California Democrats on an Assembly committee blocked two bills Tuesday that would have banned transgender athletes from girls’ sports, locker rooms, bathrooms and dorms, after an emotional three-hour hearing that underscored the political divide in both the country and state.
Apr 02, 2025
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has regularly taken side jobs running Bay Area nonprofits during his tenure as California’s elected schools chief, earning tens of thousands of dollars to supplement his income, financial disclosures show.
Apr 01, 2025
The battle over transgender athletes’ participation in youth sports will come to California on Tuesday as state lawmakers debate two bills aimed at keeping trans kids and teens off sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
Apr 01, 2025
In the immediate aftermath, Trejo alleged that school officials failed to contact him or the boy’s mother, despite both of them being listed in the student’s emergency contact information along with two adult family friends.
Apr 01, 2025
After public backlash led the Atascadero Unified School District to withdraw its selection for its next superintendent, the district is coming back with a new candidate for the role tomorrow.
Apr 01, 2025
PK Diffenbaugh, the superintendent for the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, has changed his mind and won’t be leaving at the end of the school year he announced in a letter sent out Monday.
Apr 01, 2025
Anaheim Union High School District officials are installing sensors in Cypress and Loara high schools in an effort to stop students from smoking and vaping. It comes after a drop in vaping among young people across the country.
Apr 01, 2025
The city council expressed concern over the health of West Contra Costa Unified School District and is looking for a possible partnership amid a budget crisis that is impacting the district.
Apr 01, 2025
A quiet place to complete homework, free and stable transportation options, and not immediately being penalized for missed work are among the things that Te’yana Brown said could have helped her as she faced homelessness at different points between elementary and high school.
Apr 01, 2025
A substitute security officer in Pasadena has been accused of duct-taping an 11-year-old girl's mouth shut at school because she "was talking too much."
Apr 01, 2025
California must submit its sex education curriculums to the Trump administration by Tuesday for an unusual “medical accuracy review” that some LGBTQ advocates fear is a move by the administration to find new ways to limit gender-affirming care.
Mar 31, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cut over $660 million in funding for the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, an initiative that helped schools get local foods, Politico reported.
Mar 31, 2025
Officials of the Bolinas-Stinson Union School District have taken the first step toward eliminating a free public preschool program for 3-year-olds.
Mar 31, 2025
Fresno Unified is taking a novel approach to address chronic absenteeism among its neediest students, some of whom don’t show up to school because they lack stable housing.
Mar 31, 2025
The Coachella Valley Unified School District has apologized to the U.S. Border Patrol after one of its recruiters was barred from attending a high school career fair earlier this week.
Mar 31, 2025
During Covid school closures, teachers, accustomed to using overhead projectors and pencil and paper in classrooms, had to learn to use new technology so their students could learn from home.
Mar 31, 2025
Last year California passed a law that prohibits schools from requiring staff to notify parents if a student identifies as transgender. The U.S. Department of Education alleges the law violates parents’ rights.
Mar 31, 2025
As President Donald Trump pursues the dissolution of the Department of Education, local leaders are scrambling to understand how staffing cuts and the potential loss of federal funding will affect schools.
Mar 31, 2025
Trump administration officials have zeroed in on a California law passed last year that bans schools from forcing teachers and staff to notify parents if children come out as transgender, citing the law as a potential reason to withhold federal education funds.
Mar 28, 2025
Roseland Collegiate Prep’s principal suffered minor injuries Wednesday during a confrontation on campus. It’s the latest in a series of violent incidents and police activity at Sonoma County schools during the current academic year.
Mar 28, 2025
Superintendent Daisy Morales made a public plea for collaboration after the no-confidence vote by teachers, who signaled they are not backing down. ‘She is wrecking the place,’ said one union member.
Mar 28, 2025
Sacramento State, Elk Grove Unified School District and Los Rios Community College District signed a data sharing agreement Thursday that educators say will help route students toward success in college and career programs.
Mar 28, 2025
Ousted Santa Clara County Superintendent of Schools Mary Ann Dewan dismissed her lawsuit Thursday against the Board of Education that fired her last fall, concluding a months-long battle in an office plagued by controversy and turmoil.
Mar 28, 2025
Jennifer Vietz’s transgender daughter came out to a teacher and friends at her school’s Gay Straight Alliance group. “If my daughter didn’t get the kind of support that she did,” Vietz said, “she wouldn’t be here now.”
Mar 28, 2025
Federal officials are probing the California Department of Education claiming school districts are withholding information from parents about their child’s gender identity.
Mar 27, 2025
After years of debate, Sonoma County’s largest school district approved an agreement with the city to return police officers to campus. City officials must now advance the deal.
Mar 27, 2025
Indeed, students spoke furtively of the dark arts of circumvention. Some have simply told school officials they don’t have a mobile phone. Others find decoys to place in their pouches, pocketing their real devices for surreptitious use throughout the school day.
Mar 27, 2025
Around 9:40 a.m., the school resource officer was advised of a subject down in the boys’ locker room, the Gridley Police Department said. The SRO located the juvenile, who was found to have sustained a stab wound. Additional resources were called to render aid to the victim.
Mar 27, 2025
A 17-year-old former student is accused of attacking Roseland Collegiate Prep Principal Casey Thornhill Wednesday morning just outside the public charter school northeast of Santa Rosa, police said.
Mar 27, 2025
Jewish parents in the Tamalpais Union High School District are calling for greater transparency after being denied online access to the new ethnic studies curriculum.
Mar 27, 2025
The district’s board voted unanimously on Tuesday night to appoint Eimear O’Brien, former superintendent of Clovis Unified School District, to serve as interim superintendent, effective immediately.
Mar 27, 2025
The San Diego Unified School District board has passed a sweeping plan to develop affordable homes around the district in an attempt to ease a regionwide housing crisis — part of its ongoing effort to provide relief to its workforce, shore up enrollment and support its operations with revenue from its vast real estate portfolio.
Mar 27, 2025
The seven largest school districts in California are joining forces and sending a letter to the governor with recommendations for the upcoming year’s budget.
Mar 27, 2025
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed how students and teachers spend their time in the classroom. Now, instead of writing with paper and pencil, students use computers for most assignments.
Mar 26, 2025
97% of respondents said they have no confidence in Superintendent Daisy Morales, who is in her first year leading Sonoma County’s largest school district as it struggles to address a budget crisis.
Mar 26, 2025
The Central Academy of Arts and Technology announced Tuesday it will start the 2025-26 school year with a second class at every grade level, as well as a ninth grade to supplement its kindergarten-through-eighth grade curriculum.
Mar 26, 2025
Though the district’s financial woes have been mounting for years, with declining enrollment and rising personnel and facilities costs driving factors, many parents say they felt blindsided — and stung by the remarkable overhaul that is now underway in an attempt to right the books.
Mar 26, 2025
Five years after the decades-old program was paused, Santa Rosa City Schools and city officials have a draft agreement that would return police officers to campuses in Sonoma County’s largest school district.
Mar 26, 2025
After months of debate and a fundraising drive by parents, the Mill Valley School District has approved a one-year extension for the transitional kindergarten program that was slated for elimination.
Mar 26, 2025
At a time when President Trump has threatened to cut education funding to institutions that cross him, the Los Angeles teachers union is having a throwback moment: It’s pushing an aggressive social justice and diversity agenda — and demanding a big raise from the L.A Unified School District.
Mar 26, 2025
When schools shuttered five years ago, many students like Benjamin Olaniyi turned to their phones to find connection during a profoundly unsettling and isolating time. “Social media made us feel more connected with the world,” said Olaniyi, who is now a junior at King/Drew Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles.
Mar 25, 2025
The Alvord school board has temporarily replaced outgoing Superintendent Resma Byrne with a retired school administrator. In a closed session meeting Monday morning, March 24, the Alvord Unified School District board unanimously approved the hiring of Lisa Simon as interim superintendent.
Mar 25, 2025
For more than a century, Congress has given extra money to counties with large tracts of federal land to help pay for schools, roads and other critical services. Now that financial lifeline appears to be dead after Congress didn’t include it in the budget passed this month.
Mar 25, 2025
The cash-strapped Pasadena Unified School District is suing Southern California Edison, seeking compensation for the loss of multiple buildings that burned in the Eaton fire and the ensuing disruption of its operations.
Mar 24, 2025
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday instructing U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the Department of Education, the Humboldt County Office of Education said federal funds are essential to support vulnerable student populations, while noting most school funding comes from the state.
Mar 24, 2025
The Atascadero school board plans to announce a new candidate for district superintendent in April, acting board president Denise McGrew-Kane wrote in a statement Thursday.
Mar 24, 2025
A group of parents raising money to preserve transitional kindergarten in the Mill Valley School District has received a $500,000 contribution from Kiddo, the schools foundation.
Mar 24, 2025
The Novato Unified School District has agreed to consider reserving 27 apartments in a workforce housing complex in Larkspur.
Mar 24, 2025
The Pasadena Unified School District on Friday, March 21, sued Southern California Edison seeking compensation for “devastating” damages to district properties in the Eaton fire.
Mar 24, 2025
President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education was met with uncertainty Friday at some Southern California school districts, where educators and activists worry any federal funding cuts could impact already cash-strapped budgets and threaten programs for disadvantaged students. .
Mar 24, 2025
The March harvest of the month is kumquats. Next month, it’s Persian cucumber. That’s what’s on the menu at San Diego Unified’s “Cali-Qs” — farm-to-school barbecues the school district hosts for families at different elementary schools twice a week throughout the school year.
Mar 24, 2025
The bell dinged and the University Charter High School students gathered their things and headed for the door. As students flooded from classrooms, a strange, new sound filled the long hallway: the din of hundreds of students talking. To each other.
Mar 24, 2025
The Tulare County city of Porterville would mandate its public schools to notify parents if their child requests to be identified by a gender different from their biological sex under a new proposal.
Mar 21, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. Since the U.S. Education Department was created by Congress, however, legal experts say the federal agency can only be dismantled with congressional approval.
Mar 21, 2025
A few years ago, when Julian Ramos first started teaching drama, he was hoping to explore Greek tragedy with his sixth graders. Then he realized only three out of his 30 students were reading at grade level. So, Sophocles was off the table.
Mar 21, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to work toward eliminating the Department of Education, pushing forward a campaign promise to dismantle an agency that has long been maligned by conservatives.
Mar 21, 2025
President Donald Trump’s efforts to abolish the federal Department of Education are coming as California schools face a unique crisis caused by a state law that allowed a wave of lawsuits over decades-old sexual abuse allegations.
Mar 21, 2025
In 2019, his first year in office, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the Cradle-to-Career Data System, a new state entity that aims to track students’ progress from preschool through employment. The data system was supposed to release its first public dashboard last spring.
Mar 21, 2025
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, a long-anticipated action that will affect how billions of dollars in federal funding for California will be distributed to millions of students, educators and institutions.
Mar 20, 2025
In an email sent out to parents last week, the district said it was exploring an expansion of the school as early as the 2025-26 school year.
Mar 20, 2025
The moves affect elementary, middle and high school campuses. The reassignments were aimed at creating “safe campuses,” according to the district.
Mar 20, 2025
Alisal Union School District Deputy Superintendent Monica Anzo will succeed Jim Koenig as superintendent beginning this summer.
Mar 20, 2025
The effects of the coronavirus-related shutdown linger five years later, as measured in test scores and student engagement, especially among the Golden State’s most vulnerable children.
Mar 20, 2025
SB 64 would have created “flex accounts” for California school children, making $8,000 available for their parents to spend on charter, private or magnet schools if they decided to not go to a public school.
Mar 20, 2025
Some of California’s most acclaimed schools right now aren’t in elite suburbs or wealthy urban enclaves. They’re in a small city in the San Joaquin Valley, an outpost on Highway 99 surrounded by almond trees and orange groves.
Mar 19, 2025
The Atascadero school board won’t hire a controversial candidate to replace its outgoing superintendent after community backlash. During its meeting Tuesday night, school board member Denise McGrew-Kane announced the district would not hire E.J. Rossi, its former top pick for the job.
Mar 19, 2025
The Mill Valley School District is exploring other possible locations for its new middle school. The expanded scope, prompted by community comments, means delaying the draft environmental impact report on the project, district officials said.
Mar 19, 2025
Cabrillo High School in Long Beach has issued an apology after students posed for a racist photo that went viral on social media. The photo, which was apparently taken during a school assembly in the gym, shows students wearing t-shirts that spell out a racial slur.
Mar 19, 2025
A California legislator plans to unveil a first-of-its-kind bill Wednesday that would phase out certain ultra-processed foods from meals served in public schools statewide.
Mar 18, 2025
One of the two owners of a metal salvage and recycling yard adjacent to Jordan High School in Watts was ordered Monday to remain jailed in lieu of $1 million bail in connection with charges that they illegally disposed of hazardous waste — some of which was allegedly deposited on the grounds of the school.
Mar 18, 2025
The district is under a five-year agreement with the state Department of Justice to monitor how it handles sexual harassment claims.
Mar 18, 2025
Union members began casting ballots Friday and will continue to do so through spring break, with nearly two-thirds of the potential vote already in.
Mar 18, 2025
Becky Rosales, 64, has worked in the education field for 40 years, including the past six years as the district’s top administrator. Her salary is $261,000.
Mar 18, 2025
Congressman Jim Costa held a virtual press conference Monday along with other local leaders to discuss recent cuts to federal food programs and how the cuts will affect local school districts and food banks.
Mar 18, 2025
A South L.A. recycling plant accused of spewing toxic waste and lead onto the grounds of a nearby high school was ordered shut down on Monday, a major victory for community activists and student groups who have been fighting against the facility for two decades.
Mar 17, 2025
Teachers at Friday’s protest said the recent moves have broken their trust in the district’s ability to manage the overhaul of its schools.
Mar 17, 2025
At least 56 staff members at Maria Carrillo High School were reported absent Friday, forcing officials to have students gather in the gym. At Slater, district officials were brought in to manage classrooms.
Mar 17, 2025
The board voted Thursday to eliminate 10 full-time certificated roles and 24 classified jobs by the end of the school year.
Mar 17, 2025
The removal of a number of administrators last week sparked a petition for the removal of new Santa Rosa schools Superintendent Daisy Morales, who says she values ‘the concerns and perspectives’ of the SRCS community in a time of transition.
Mar 17, 2025
A South Orange County school board member’s use of the N-word at a recent public meeting – while supporting approval of a book about an enslaved man – has triggered concerns and debate across one of Orange County’s largest school districts.
Mar 17, 2025
Modesto City Schools is the only district in the nation incorporating tai chi into its after-school program, helping elementary students sharpen focus, reduce stress and enhance overall well-being, instructor Naser Ataee said.
Mar 17, 2025
When the Trump administration announced last week that about half the staff of the U.S. Department of Education were to be laid off, the slashing closed down the San Francisco regional branch of the Office for Civil Rights responsible for providing the state’s students protection from discrimination.
Mar 17, 2025
Five years ago, California's roughly 10 million K-12 and college students, along with parents, educators and school leaders, were thrust into an uncertain world of remote learning, followed a year later by a return to in-person schooling punctuated by social distancing, mask mandates, learning loss and chronic absenteeism.
Mar 17, 2025
As California gets closer to its 2030 goal of having 1,600 dual language immersion programs in the state’s public schools and advocates call for a more ambitious vision, legislators have pumped the brakes on funding.
Mar 17, 2025
Educators and classified professionals rallied in protest against the Trump administration in downtown San Diego on Friday during their union’s twice-yearly convention, warning of possible effects on schools and students.
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.