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Jan 27, 2026

Palisades Charter High School is reopening Tuesday a little more than a year after fire tore through campus and the surrounding community.

Jan 27, 2026

Los Gatos High School officials announced noticeable improvements following the launch of their e-bike program.

Jan 27, 2026

About 100 Santa Rosa City Schools employees could be laid off at the end of the school year, according to a newly released fiscal plan from Sonoma County’s largest district.

Jan 27, 2026

Sacramento City Unified could run out of cash as soon as this summer. One board member is turning to parents and the community for help.

Jan 27, 2026

Reilly, whose tenure as Elk Grove Unified School District’s superintendent began Jan. 1, worked as an associate superintendent in the district for 10 years before his promotion to superintendent.

Jan 27, 2026

Fresno Unified denied allegations made by some retirees in a complaint letter and said that the 2023 health insurance changes do not constitute a loss of benefits or a breach of the collective bargaining agreement.

Jan 27, 2026

Former Roosevelt Junior High School Principal Brian Chubon, convicted of crimes against a minor, remains a credentialed teacher and principal in California as of Jan. 26.

Jan 26, 2026

The Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees held a first reading on trustee-proposed revisions to its bylaws governing committee appointments, prompting confusion among board members and leading one trustee to ask to be removed from all committee assignments.

Jan 26, 2026

Voters in the Larkspur-Corte Madera School District could be asked to approve a $44 million bond measure to improve and maintain school facilities in the June 2 election.

Jan 26, 2026

California has taken steps the past few years to protect transgender young people on the playing field, in the classroom and in the doctor’s office. But a handful of federal court cases and new policies could threaten those protections.

Jan 26, 2026

Newark Memorial’s coaching community is in flux after coaches for all of the high school’s sports teams were told that they would be let go by the end of the school year.

Jan 26, 2026

Former interim Superintendent Judy White had indicated in November, just before her departure from the district, that the audit would be released publicly after witness names were redacted. Now, however, Rialto Unified has reversed its position, citing attorney-client privileged communications and work product.

Jan 26, 2026

The Anaheim Unified High School District board recently agreed to solicit redevelopment proposals for the Hope School site.

Jan 26, 2026

The Los Angeles Unified School District released a litany of test results for the fire-damaged Palisades Charter High School ahead of the planned return of students next week, showing the district’s remediation efforts have removed much of the post-fire contamination.

Jan 26, 2026

A former principal with Modesto City Schools was promoted after he’d already been charged for sexual acts with an underage student in Merced County.

Jan 26, 2026

The Board of Trustees voted, 6-1, to increase their monthly stipend from $2,111 to $4,500, or $54,000 annually, starting Feb. 1.

Jan 26, 2026

Some Fresno Unified retirees sent a complaint letter to the school district demanding an immediate resolution to their health insurance disruption, which has prevented retirees from continuing to receive services from Community Health System.

Jan 23, 2026

The Yuba City Unified School District settled with the state after a Black student alleged “severe” racial harassment at two of its elementary schools.

Jan 23, 2026

Brea Olinda Unified School District Trustee Christopher Becerra missed a second consecutive school board meeting Thursday night, Jan. 22, following his arrest in December.

Jan 23, 2026

East Side Union High School District’s board of education will vote on whether to layoff dozens of staff dedicated to protecting students’ mental health, wellbeing and safety Thursday night.

Jan 23, 2026

Oakland Unified School District’s projected $100 million budget deficit for the next school year could be halved to around $50 million, school leaders revealed this week while warning that significant changes must still be made.

Jan 23, 2026

East Side Union High School District’s board of education will vote on whether to layoff dozens of staff dedicated to protecting students’ mental health, wellbeing and safety Thursday night.

Jan 23, 2026

The union for a South County school district announced late Wednesday that teachers had authorized a strike. The strike vote comes after 20 months of negotiations, according to the union, which have resulted in an impasse with the South Bay Union School District.

Jan 23, 2026

Los Angeles school officials warned this week of impending staff reductions — including likely layoffs — as they grapple with steadily falling enrollment and a three-year budget projection that ends with a deficit.

Jan 23, 2026

A lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District for allegedly discriminating against white students could move forward in the current political climate even though the argument lacks teeth, experts say.

Jan 23, 2026

The West Contra Costa Unified School District board narrowly approved tentative labor agreements hammered out at the bargaining table late last year with its teachers and other employees, but without a clear plan for how to pay for them.

Jan 22, 2026

Stockton Unified School District students made modest gains in graduation rates, English learner progress and several student subgroups, but they still lag behind state academic standards and face persistent opportunity gaps, according to the 2025 California School Dashboard.

Jan 22, 2026

Joe Koski, assistant superintendent of educational support services for the county office, announced his campaign for the role in an email on Tuesday, saying he aims to continue the vision of longtime superintendent Jim Brescia, who recently announced he will not be seeking reelection in November.

Jan 22, 2026

The Sacramento City Unified School District is navigating poor financial waters for the second time in less than a decade. The district was on the brink of insolvency in 2018 and facing the threat of state receivership.

Jan 22, 2026

The Elk Grove Unified School District is adding a new graduation requirement for students in the class of 2030 and beyond.The district will begin offering ninth graders the course “Introduction to Ethnic Studies” in the 2026-27 school year.

Jan 22, 2026

Several Modesto City Schools parents showed up to Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting to contest a first reading of the district’s proposed mental health policy.

Jan 22, 2026

Los Angeles school officials warned this week of impending staff reductions — including likely layoffs — as they grapple with steadily falling enrollment and a three-year budget projection that ends with a deficit.

Jan 22, 2026

The Trump administration has abandoned the legal defense of its campaign to strip federal funding from schools and colleges that promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Jan 21, 2026

Michael Specchierla, the executive director at the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education, announced on Tuesday his campaign for SLO County superintendent of schools.

Jan 21, 2026

The proposal would ask residents to renew the district’s current parcel tax and reauthorize a second tax that expired during the pandemic.

Jan 21, 2026

The Sausalito Marin City School District is seeking a new after-school provider following the announcement that its contractor, Bridge the Gap, will not continue with the program next year.

Jan 21, 2026

Special ed enrollment has been rising across the Lodi Unified district, as well as the state and country, for the past few decades. At a school board meeting last August, the district announced that 18% of Lodi’s 26,000 students receive special ed services — a figure several percentage points higher than the statewide average.

Jan 21, 2026

The Los Angeles County Office of Education has awarded the Pasadena Unified School District a positive certification on its recently submitted first interim report.

Jan 21, 2026

A new school on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians reservation will bring together on one campus younger tribal students who currently go to school at three sites on the reservation.

Jan 21, 2026

Amid a national and turbulent debate on how to boost lagging literacy skills, San Francisco is putting its money behind a simple effort that seems to be generating the kind of jaw-dropping results often promised with education reforms, but rarely seen.

Jan 21, 2026

A long-running effort to help disadvantaged students of color in Los Angeles schools is under legal challenge by a group that claims the nation’s second-largest school system is discriminating against white students.

Jan 20, 2026

The Paso Robles school district will officially discuss questions about transgender bathrooms and trans students’ participation in sports at a school board meeting in February.

Jan 20, 2026

Under the plan, the Marin County Office of Education would be the rental-income guarantor for all 74 apartments designated for K-12 education workers. The county office was originally assigned 20 apartments.

Jan 20, 2026

Bond-funded upgrades at two elementary schools in the Mill Valley School District are mostly complete, while work at three others is expected soon, according to a district consultant.

Jan 20, 2026

A vote by the Twin Rivers Unified School District board this week does not bode well for the future of Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, which has been under scrutiny since a state audit found it had received more than $180 million in K-12 funds it was not eligible to collect.

Jan 20, 2026

Educational administrator Jason Sutter, a resident of Sonoma Valley for 30 years, has been selected as the new superintendent of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District.

Jan 20, 2026

Democrats and Republicans largely agree California’s schools are struggling — but they offer starkly different explanations for why, and competing visions for how much power, money and control the state should exert over classrooms, teachers and parents.

Jan 20, 2026

“Randolph the Bow-Legged Cowboy had a very shiny gun, and if you ever saw it, you would turn around and run.” — San Jose Unified School District Board Vice President Brian Wheatley, singing a version of a spoof of “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” in a video he posted to his social media after a principal had stopped him from singing the full song at an elementary school concert last month and he apologized. Some teachers at last week’s board meeting called it tone deaf.

Jan 20, 2026

The layoffs have slowed work at the Office for Civil Rights across the board, but it has an outsize impact on cases of sexual violence. Students who are mistreated by their schools — including victims and accused students alike — have few other venues to pursue justice.

Jan 20, 2026

The Sacramento City Unified School District will end its screening exams for admission to two desirable elementary schools after California Attorney General Rob Bonta found the tool discriminated against students with disabilities.

Jan 16, 2026

Jill Baker, the Long Beach Unified School District’s first woman superintendent, will retire from her leadership role at the close of the 2025-26 academic year.

Jan 16, 2026

Investigations have dwindled. Before the layoffs last March, the office opened dozens of sexual violence investigations a year. Since then, it’s opened fewer than 10 nationwide, according to internal data obtained by The Associated Press.

Jan 16, 2026

The Fresno Unified board that oversees the district’s employee health benefits voted on Thursday to offer retirees an additional health care option amid continued uncertainty over their access to services.

Jan 16, 2026

New interim chief business officer Lisa-Grant Dawson told a frustrated board of trustees at a meeting Thursday night that the Sacramento City Unified School District is still at risk of running out of money by summer.

Jan 16, 2026

The fight over “Grading for Equity” now is popping in the East Bay’s Tri-Valley school districts, where education officials have a plan to counter potential opposition: remove the word “equity” from their policies.

Jan 16, 2026

Days after a San Jose school board member apologized for singing a song with references to a gun at an elementary school winter concert, he sang it again—this time in a video he posted to social media.

Jan 16, 2026

Federal officials have launched an investigation into the California Community Colleges Athletic Assn. and four other state colleges and school districts, alleging that their policies allowing sports participation based on gender identity violate the civil rights of female athletes, U.S. Education Department officials announced this week.

Jan 16, 2026

California communities and environmental justice groups worked for years to win a law to prevent new oil and gas wells from being drilled near where people live, work and gather. Now, the Trump administration is suing to overturn it.

Jan 16, 2026

A growing number of parents, teachers and neighbors have banded together in districts across the state, including Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego, to watch for ICE agents outside schools, walk students to school, and bring groceries for families who are afraid to leave their homes.

Jan 15, 2026

New buildings stand tall at the site of what will soon be the reconstructed Paradise High School on Clark Road.

Jan 15, 2026

Community Health System has agreed to restore certain services for thousands of Fresno Unified’s retirees who abruptly lost health care access on New Year’s Day due to an insurance network dispute.

Jan 15, 2026

Whole milk is heading back to school cafeterias across the country after President Donald Trump signed a bill Wednesday overturning Obama-era limits on higher-fat milk options.

Jan 15, 2026

A month after a contentious meeting at which the Temecula school board couldn’t agree on a new clerk, the topic returned — along with the proposed censure of a board member and a policy stating that trustees don’t have individual authority.

Jan 15, 2026

Dozens of frustrated parents, teachers and residents packed the Livermore Valley Unified School District Board meeting Tuesday night, rallying against a proposal to shutter two elementary schools to help close a $16 million budget deficit.

Jan 15, 2026

The Los Angeles school district is falling short of meeting school board-approved academic goals set four years ago, but students continue to improve faster on key academic measurements than the state as a whole, based on data released Tuesday.

Jan 15, 2026

A vote by the Twin Rivers Unified School District board this week does not bode well for the future of Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, which has been under scrutiny since a state audit found it had received more than $180 million in K-12 funds it was not eligible to collect.

Jan 14, 2026

The Monterey County Board of Education will meet Wednesday to decide whether to approve a new charter school, a controversial decision that has drawn reaction from educators, parents and district leaders across the county.

Jan 14, 2026

Voters in the Lagunitas School District will decide this month whether to renew its longstanding parcel tax.

Jan 14, 2026

The region’s largest hospital system said it remained at an impasse with Fresno Unified’s for-profit health insurer on reimbursement rates amid negotiations to restore the health care services district retirees abruptly lost on New Year’s Day.

Jan 13, 2026

Los Angeles Unified School District officials on Monday celebrated the first day of the second semester of the 2025-26 school year, saying that classrooms will remain a safe haven for students and parents.

Jan 13, 2026

Some retired Fresno Unified employees say their simmering frustration with their health care benefits, which remain in limbo, stems back to the district’s 2023 decision to outsource retiree coverage to a profit-driven private insurer.

Jan 13, 2026

Across San Diego County, school district leaders have been bolstering their systems for how to deal with immigration enforcement, spurred by rising arrests in local communities and by new state laws and legal guidance.

Jan 13, 2026

Months before a San Jose high school attracted national attention when an image of students forming a human swastika on a football field went viral, a Jewish student in the Santa Cruz Mountains was targeted in a way that left no ambiguity, according to state records.

Jan 13, 2026

With a new grade called transitional kindergarten, there are younger kids in elementary school this year than ever before in California — and with that comes its own set of challenges for schools who are trying to implement it.

Jan 13, 2026

The Sacramento City Unified School District will reform its enrollment processes after an investigation by the state showed that the district’s practices violated state laws and discriminated against students of color, students with disabilities, English learning students and homeless students.

Jan 12, 2026

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration unveiled a proposed $349 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year starting July 1, projecting a $2.9 billion deficit — far smaller than the $18 billion shortfall forecast by the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) in November.

Jan 12, 2026

The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District and Monterey Peninsula College are launching two new dual-enrollment programs for high school students, slated to begin in fall 2026.

Jan 12, 2026

Voters in the Sausalito Marin City School District could soon be asked to support a $10 million bond measure to rebuild an athletic field.

Jan 12, 2026

Schools and community colleges can expect billions of dollars in new funding, thanks to robust tax receipts tied to wealth from artificial intelligence companies, according to the governor’s 2026-27 state budget.

Jan 12, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a decision in his last year as governor similar to one former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faced in his first year two decades ago: How to deal with a lawsuit demanding that the state fix unhealthy and inadequate school facilities?

Jan 09, 2026

The state Public Employment Relations Board has been summoned to conduct a fact-finding inquiry into the stalled contract talks between the district and the teachers’ union.

Jan 09, 2026

San Rafael City Schools will need to make about $5.5 million in cuts to keep its budgets balanced over the three-year fiscal reporting period, officials said.

Jan 09, 2026

John Roach has been hired as the new superintendent of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.

Jan 09, 2026

Sacramento-area educators are poised to strike if their demands for higher compensation and improved working conditions are not met soon.

Jan 09, 2026

San Diego Unified says it will close schools Feb. 26 for one day after teachers authorized what would be their first strike in decades over special education workloads — part of a statewide union push for schools to boost staffing.

Jan 09, 2026

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said he was blindsided by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal Thursday to curtail the superintendent’s duties and he disagrees with it, although it’s unclear what he can do to stop it.

Jan 09, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday previewed a major education system overhaul that would give the next governor more authority over state school policies and redefine — and almost certainly diminish — the role of the elected state superintendent of public instruction.

Jan 08, 2026

In November, the board approved tripling monthly compensation from $750 to $3,000 following the passage of Assembly Bill 1390, which raised the maximum pay for school board members in large districts.

Jan 08, 2026

After more than two years of construction, the new campus of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy was introduced Wednesday to great celebration in Sausalito.

Jan 08, 2026

Sacramento City Unified School District is investigating one of its top financial officers following allegations of fiscal mismanagement made by an anonymous group within her department.

Jan 08, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed paring down the responsibilities of California’s elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction and shifting more power to the State Board of Education.

Jan 08, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce Thursday that he will ask the Legislature to shift the operation and control of the California Department of Education from the state superintendent of public instruction to the governor and the State Board of Education.

Jan 07, 2026

One year after the Palisades fire destroyed or damaged three school campuses, Los Angeles Unified School District officials said Tuesday that Palisades Charter High School will reopen its campus in two weeks, while permanent rebuilding of two elementary schools is expected to be completed by fall of 2028.

Jan 07, 2026

California is failing to meet its promises to children — especially in students’ well-being and education — according to a new report released Wednesday.

Jan 07, 2026

Thousands of retired Fresno Unified employees abruptly lost access to health care services from Community Medical Centers on New Year’s Day, and it’s unclear when the situation will be resolved.

Jan 07, 2026

Of the 54 teachers employed at St. Hope schools in November 2024, only 16 remain in their roles one year later (another three came back as administrators). An additional five hired in 2025 were gone before Thanksgiving break.

Jan 07, 2026

A court order giving California teachers full freedom to tell parents about their child’s gender identity at school is on hold after an appellate panel blocked it from going into immediate effect.

Jan 07, 2026

If a school principal in San Diego County demands to look through a student’s backpack and doesn’t find anything against the rules, in most cases, no record will be made about the search. Civil rights advocates in Southern California say that’s a problem.

Jan 07, 2026

You can never lose money by catastrophizing about what President Donald Trump might do. My last year’s predictions about his impact on education, treating the Department of Education like Venezuela with shock and awe, were, within a fenster or so, spot-on (go here for last year’s predictions).

Jan 07, 2026

For years, California schools have pushed to change the way the state pays for K-12 education: by basing funding on enrollment, instead of attendance. That’s the way 45 other states do it, and it would mean an extra $6 billion annually in school coffers.

Jan 06, 2026

The 2025 fires cut a wide swath of destruction that the region is still grappling with. Thirty-one people died. Over 100,000 people were displaced.

Jan 06, 2026

In 2019, first-year Gov. Gavin Newsom inherited a state flush with cash. With a $21.4 billion budget surplus to play with, an ambitious Newsom invested billions in affordable housing, child care and health care expansion while paying down the state’s debt and shoring up reserves. The next governor won’t be that lucky.

Jan 06, 2026

Peer-to-peer mental health support programs show early signs of improving student mental health, enhancing student engagement and reducing stigma in California high schools, according to a report by the Children’s Partnership.

Jan 06, 2026

A coalition representing California charter authorizers has asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to take the lead in shaping the next anti-fraud charter school bill, urging him to include key oversight provisions in his January budget proposal.

Jan 05, 2026

A federal judge in Southern California ruled this week the state may no longer bar teachers from informing parents when their children socially transition to a different gender at school.

Jan 05, 2026

Facing a mountain of lawsuits, California K-12 schools will have a system in place beginning this year to prevent teachers and other staff from sexually abusing students.

Jan 05, 2026

Visitors to San Rafael City Schools campuses in coming months will need to complete a new electronic visitor check-in and badging process.

Jan 05, 2026

The most recent version of the Novato Unified School District budget has been downgraded from “positive” to “qualified” status because of a projected reserves level below the mandated state minimum amount.

Jan 05, 2026

California students are likely to see fewer cell phones and more gender-neutral bathrooms next year as new state education laws go into effect.

Jan 05, 2026

At the beginning of 2025 Sacramento schools worked to steady themselves ahead of the uncertainty that came with a new presidential administration which sought to eradicate the Department of Education, but the biggest local education stories of the year were a matter of homegrown issues, some of them years in the making.

Jan 05, 2026

Former Bullard High School football coach Don Arax’s lawsuit against Fresno Unified School District and trustee Keshia Thomas is still ongoing, and the matter won’t make it to trial for another year.

Jan 05, 2026

A year ago, Tanya Reyes watched in disbelief as the Eaton fire incinerated her Altadena home. As her three daughters listed everything they had lost in the days that followed, Reyes kept reminding them that what mattered most was that they still had each other.

Jan 05, 2026

A federal court ruling has affirmed the free speech and religious rights of California teachers who want to tell parents about how their child is expressing gender identity at school, a victory for conservatives and parent-rights advocates that stands to rewrite state school policies if upheld.

Jan 05, 2026

The past few years, California has been all about the ABCs, 1-2-3s and the wheels on the bus, investing more than $5 billion in early childhood education. But kindergarten, a staple of elementary schools for more than a century, remains optional.

Jan 05, 2026

A federal court judge in San Jose has denied a preliminary injunction that four teachers and others sought to stop a new state law intended to blunt rising antisemitism in California public schools.

Jan 05, 2026

California classrooms will look and feel different in 2026 — with new limits on cellphones, expanded protections for immigrant families, gender-neutral bathrooms and healthier school meals rolling out statewide as a slate of new education laws takes effect for the state’s 5.8 million K-12 students.

Dec 23, 2025

The Fresno Unified School Board approved early retirement for 573 employees, aiming to save the district over $56 million over the next five years.

Dec 23, 2025

A San Jose elementary school is issuing an apology after a board trustee’s performance at the school’s winter concert in which he sang a song that had “references that were not appropriate for a young audience.”

Dec 23, 2025

Facing a mountain of lawsuits, California K-12 schools will have a system in place beginning this year to prevent teachers and other staff from sexually abusing students.

Dec 22, 2025

After months of delay and negotiations, Sacramento City Unified School District reached an operating agreement with St. Hope Public Schools Thursday night that will guide their relationship through 2030.

Dec 22, 2025

So-called “ICE free zones,” a policy prohibiting federal agents from staging on publicly owned property, have expanded across the Bay Area after recent adoptions of the restrictions by Pinole and the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Dec 22, 2025

The Vallejo City school board voted unanimously this week to close three schools, marking the second year in a row the Bay Area district will shut down campuses to help close a gaping deficit and address the vast number of empty seats in its classrooms.

Dec 22, 2025

When Altadena’s Eliot Arts Magnet Academy burned in the Eaton fire, its theater program’s substantial collection of largely handmade costumes was destroyed.

Dec 22, 2025

Clovis Unified’s new board president Tiffany Stoker Madsen said the state should amend its school funding formula to allow districts such as Clovis to receive more funding.

Dec 22, 2025

When Heather Povinelli was in teacher training while in college, there was a moment she believed her dwarfism would thwart her dream of becoming a teacher — a kindergartner grabbed her on the playground.

Dec 19, 2025

After years of controversy and environmental testing, Mill Valley trustees unanimously approved a plan to use about $95 million in Measure G bond money to renovate the middle school.

Dec 19, 2025

The Chico Unified School District board voted unanimously to increase its monthly stipend from $400 to $1,250 at its Wednesday night meeting.

Dec 19, 2025

St. Hope Public Schools and its charter authorizer, Sacramento City Unified School District, have been on rocky terms for more than a year.

Dec 19, 2025

Facing a budget deficit and declining enrollment, South Bay Union School District says it might close two more elementary schools in the next six years, months after deciding to shutter another.

Dec 19, 2025

In the diverse Inland Empire, more students are finding that school meals can be delicious, nutritious and authentic to their culture.

Dec 19, 2025

The Visalia Unified School District’s public board meeting in March was a festive and upbeat affair with a performance by a student chamber music group and a commendation for a high school cheer squad.

Dec 19, 2025

Starting in 2020, survivors of childhood sex abuse in California were given a powerful tool to confront their abusers and the institutions that employed them.

Dec 19, 2025

A Lake Tahoe school district is caught between California and Nevada's competing policies on transgender student athletes, a dispute that's poised to reorder where the district's students compete.

Dec 19, 2025

A former teacher-turned-principal-turned-researcher, José Medina spreads his message about validating and acknowledging a student’s native language and expression on social media and in schools across the country.

Dec 18, 2025

The Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District is trying to navigate a high-stakes sports dilemma as it faces pressure to follow California law while maintaining long-standing athletic competition in Nevada.

Dec 18, 2025

A federal judge on Wednesday sharply questioned the attorney seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the enactment of an antisemitism law that the Legislature passed in October.

Dec 17, 2025

Despite protests and pleas, Tamalpais Union High School District officials this week approved a plan to co-locate its two alternative schools in Larkspur to one campus as part of a move expected to save the district $2.2 million.

Dec 17, 2025

A school board meeting in Placer County became the latest battleground in the national culture war surrounding slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as hundreds of students and parents packed a high school auditorium to debate whether a conservative club in the district represents free speech or hate speech.

Dec 17, 2025

After a multi-day strike in early December and days after landing a tentative agreement with West Contra Costa Unified School District, education and support staff are still left with uncertainty as they wait for district trustees to vote on a new contract.

Dec 17, 2025

The Oakland Unified School District approved a $103 million budget plan that includes vague cuts and hopes to boost attendance rates to generate additional revenue, in an effort to repair its bleak budget hole.

Dec 17, 2025

California’s school funding law hasn’t proven as equitable or effective as legislators envisioned when they passed the Local Control Funding Formula in 2013. So lawmakers and education advocates have been discussing several ideas to fix it.

Dec 16, 2025

Marguerita Elementary School teacher Claudia Ralston spends most of her day on the floor, guiding her transitional kindergarten students through play. She said if it weren’t for TK, the Alhambra educator would be considering retirement.

Dec 16, 2025

Clark Intermediate School will retain its beloved mascot, the chieftain, with the support of the largest local tribe North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians.

Dec 16, 2025

For Sacramento City Unified School District, bad news got worse. The school district is facing a larger budget shortfall than previously projected, now amounting to as much as $125 million in the 2027-28 school year.

Dec 16, 2025

San Dieguito Union High School District has approved a new agreement with its four high schools’ foundations to take back control of facilities rentals and require more transparency for their donors, after months of scrutiny from students and a recent rental to what officials called a “highly inappropriate” live game show production.

Dec 16, 2025

Jacob Trentini still has a worn copy of “Python for Dummies,” a gift from his father when he was about 6 and interested in learning the coding language.

Dec 16, 2025

On a 40-degree December day in the Central Valley, two dozen high school students in firefighter gear steady themselves before carrying and climbing a 24-foot, 100-pound ladder.

Dec 16, 2025

Oakland’s school district has been mired for months in political infighting over how to pull out of a financial tailspin, but late last week, the situation took a turn for the worse with the sudden departure of two key officials — the chief of staff and the chief business officer.

Dec 15, 2025

A San Diego charter school has the green light from San Diego Unified trustees to remove its German immersion program, despite parents’ request for more oversight of the school.

Dec 15, 2025

Less than 20 minutes into the Sept. 17 Vallejo City Unified School District board meeting, Superintendent Rubén Aurelio publicly shared for the first time his preliminary list of schools recommended for closure at the end of this academic calendar.

Dec 15, 2025

There is a new cost to hiring an international worker to fill a vital but otherwise vacant position in a California classroom: $100,000.

Dec 15, 2025

From Los Angeles to Sacramento, teachers unions, many fueled by the “We Can’t Wait” campaign organized by the California Teachers Association and a slew of contract renewals, are rallying for higher pay, better benefits, smaller class sizes and other classroom improvements. Some are threatening to strike.

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.