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Oct 23, 2026

Sacramento City Unified School District said Thursday it made an error in its Proposition 28 spending report to the state and submitted a revised report showing it had spent its full allocation.

Oct 23, 2026

Stacey Randecker didn’t want to ship her kids across San Francisco every day for school, something many of the city’s public school parents chose to do in the early 2000s, and today.

Oct 23, 2026

Long before she emerged as a candidate for the state superintendent of public instruction, and before she served on her local school board, Sonja Shaw was a parent attending a Chino Valley Unified board meeting.

Oct 23, 2026

Before he heads out the door, Gov. Gavin Newsom must decide whether California will join 31 states in a new multibillion-dollar school choice program, funded by private donations, that President Donald Trump included last year in his One Big Beautiful Bill.

Oct 22, 2026

The Superintendent of the Santa Barbara Unified School District, Hilda Maldonado, announced on Wednesday that she is resigning at the end of the school year.

Oct 22, 2026

A San Luis Obispo County school district superintendent is being accused of making “inappropriate” comments about a high school principal’s age and appearance — and later placing that same principal suddenly on administrative leave with little explanation.

Oct 22, 2026

The results could be pivotal in the longstanding “culture wars” some say has been playing out on the dais, where conservative trustees hold the majority. Chino Valley students and parents who oppose what they call the board’s divisive politics say the Nov. 3 election is a much-needed opportunity for change.

Oct 22, 2026

Sacramento City Unified School District had three years to spend $6.3 million in Proposition 28 arts and music funding. It spent about $4.5 million, leaving $1.8 million unspent — more than any other California school district.

Oct 22, 2026

Twenty months after staffing cuts that prompted a long-running outcry, nine teacher librarians in East County learned Wednesday they will get their old jobs back.

Oct 22, 2026

One of the most comprehensive studies of California’s multibillion-dollar investment in early education programs offers evidence that the funding is paying off in academic achievement years later.

Oct 21, 2026

Seven students were arrested and several were injured Tuesday in an afternoon fight on the campus of Montgomery Junior Senior High School in Santa Rosa, where police said a 15-year-old student wielded a knife in the altercation before fleeing ahead of officers’ arrival.

Oct 21, 2026

Police launched an investigation into a school shooting plot on Oct. 6 when the FBI shared information about social media communications involving a potential threat at Corona High School, officials said. Working with the FBI, police arrested a 15-year-old student who attends Corona High School.

Oct 21, 2026

California voters will decide who will serve as the state's next superintendent of public instruction in the Nov. 3 general election. Democrat Richard Barrera is running against Republican Sonja Shaw.

Oct 21, 2026

If Proposition 3 looks familiar, it’s because this is the third time the income tax measure has appeared on California ballots. But this time might be the last.

Oct 21, 2026

At a team meeting at Silas Bartsch School last year, math teachers noted that many fifth graders missed a multistep multiplication problem, which required them to multiply, regroup, then add.

Oct 20, 2026

Potential closures of these campuses, Gompers Elementary School in Lakewood and Edison Elementary School in downtown Long Beach, would happen at the end of the 2026-27 academic year. The proposal to do so, however, has sparked opposition and several concerns from parents and the campus communities.

Oct 20, 2026

The Fontana Unified School District should soon have its its new superintendent. Ramiro Rubalcaba, an educator with 30 years of experience, is the finalist to serve as the district’s new leader, a news release states.

Oct 20, 2026

The school opened four years ago and is the district’s sole language immersion school that voters paid for through the $172 million school bond Measure L in 2018. But this year, the school district is asking for $300 million dollars more through school bond Measure D.

Oct 20, 2026

The Encinitas Union School District and the city of Encinitas have reached an agreement resolving “all outstanding issues” related to the Paul Ecke-Central Elementary School project and building construction may begin soon, the two parties announced last week.

Oct 20, 2026

For the second time this week a Vallejo City Unified School District site safety official was arrested, this time at Jesse Bethel High School, where Charles Fontenette was booked for allegedly committing battery with serious bodily injury.

Oct 20, 2026

For more than 20 years, Oakland Unified School District asked: How do we get out of state receivership? Now that full local authority is restored, I worry the question has simply become: How do we stay out of it? That’s the wrong question.

Oct 20, 2026

“As a superintendent, I continually ask myself: ‘What additional role can I play? What additional contribution can I make?’ And here is what I can pledge: Locally, and in the absence of meaningful change from seats of greater power, we will continue to prepare and protect our community in thoughtful and responsive ways."

Oct 20, 2026

The board of education voted 5-0 Oct. 15 to approve the $6 million sale of the former Avenue School site. The district-owned property at 2647 N. Ventura Ave. closed in 1989 and was declared surplus property in 2023 after years of sitting vacant.

Oct 20, 2026

According to the report, Key and Morales "discouraged VCOE employees from using email to discuss or authorize certain decisions, as evidenced by the use of handwritten sticky notes by VCOE staff to document verbal directives from leadership."

Oct 20, 2026

Amid a groundswell of support in recent years for returning police officers to school campuses in Santa Rosa, and after a school board vote nearly three years ago to bring back the program in some form, the city and school district appear no closer to making that step happen.

Oct 20, 2026

Elsie Allen moved to the four-by-four schedule in 2026 amid the district’s wider efforts to stabilize its budget. “It’s very new,” Caston said. “The fact that there are more minutes in one semester for the course is a new thing, so when we introduce something new, there are bound to be misunderstandings.”

Oct 19, 2026

The principal of Atascadero High School was suddenly placed on an unspecified type of leave on Thursday, with little explanation as to why.

Oct 19, 2026

A proposal to remove accelerated classes to close academic achievement gaps and reduce student stress is moving through several Bay Area school districts, setting up a curriculum fight in many local school board races in November’s election.

Oct 19, 2026

Personal information about millions of California students was stolen in a hack of a non-profit organization that contracts with the state’s Department of Education, officials announced Friday.

Oct 19, 2026

Californians headed to the polls for the midterm elections will vote on 14 statewide ballot propositions, including four tax measures that would impact funding for California schools.

Oct 19, 2026

The number of new immigrant students attending California schools continues to decline, so much so that in some districts it’s resulted in shuttered programs and staff reassignments.

Oct 16, 2026

The Chico Unified School District board has yet to vote on a $2.5 million proposal aimed at implementing police officers on high school campuses. On Wednesday, the board held a special meeting to hear from community members and the Chico Police Department to gauge public interest and clarify concerns consequent from the previous Sept. 23 board meeting.

Oct 16, 2026

At the district board meeting on Tuesday, a group of parents called on Cynthia Roenisch, the board president, to step down. They faulted her for failing to publicly censure or discipline former trustee Kevin Saavedra for his conduct toward Ina Gotlieb, a resident with a child in the district.

Oct 16, 2026

Every morning right before 9 a.m., Jim Rifle calls about 300 students at Earl Warren Elementary to line up for the classroom. After 29 years at the school, the instructional aide still fills in wherever he’s needed from tech support and one-on-one student learning to yard duty.

Oct 16, 2026

A civil lawsuit alleging an Orange County Board of Education trustee attacked a 20-year-old driver, throwing him to the ground and choking him, has been dismissed after the driver’s lawyers moved to drop the case.

Oct 16, 2026

The California Department of Education this week released the annual California School Dashboard, the state’s multidimensional, multicolored look at student, school and district achievement.

Oct 16, 2026

California schools spent the vast majority of their roughly $1 billion allocation in Proposition 28 funds for the 2023-2024 school year on hiring new visual arts, music, dance and theater teachers and expanding arts programs, according to data obtained by EdSource.

Oct 15, 2026

Vandals who shattered windows, destroyed televisions and ransacked classrooms caused an estimated $200,000 in damages at the shuttered Brook Hill Elementary School in Santa Rosa, police said, and six teenagers have been arrested in connection with the break-in.

Oct 15, 2026

Four years after voters in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District voted for Measure C-22’s $359 million bond to upgrade a bevy of schools across the district, Baywood Elementary School in Los Osos is officially slated for demolition and replacement.

Oct 15, 2026

San Francisco school officials knew there was no way to make everyone happy with whichever student assignment system they picked.

Oct 15, 2026

This year’s state test scores provided a mixed send-off for the education legacy of Gov. Gavin Newsom, with incremental gains in English and math, but results that continue to fall short of prepandemic achievement levels.

Oct 15, 2026

California’s graduation rates reached a decade high last school year, while chronic absenteeism and suspensions continued to decline, according to the California School Dashboard released Thursday.

Oct 15, 2026

California students’ proficiency in math and English language arts follows the same trend in 2026 as the past few years: incremental improvement from the year prior, with the majority of students below grade-level standards.

Oct 14, 2026

The information-services-and-support manager does not have contact with district students when he is at work, and no Fontana student appears to be a victim, Fontana Unified spokeswoman Clarissa Trejo said on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Oct 14, 2026

Colorful pride flags lined Broadway in front of Sonoma Valley High School Tuesday, Oct. 13, as hundreds of demonstrators — students and adults — rallied in Sonoma in protest of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District’s new flag policy that has forced the removal of the pride flag first raised on the school’s campus by students in 2019.

Oct 14, 2026

Matthew Harris, the former Petaluma City Schools chief, will serve as interim superintendent of Rincon Valley Union School District in eastern Santa Rosa. Harris, who led the Petaluma district for five years, is succeeding Mike Herfurth, who announced his resignation as Rincon Valley’s top administrator in September, effective Oct. 8.

Oct 14, 2026

The infighting between Temecula Valley school board continues as trustees were set Tuesday night, Oct. 13, to take up proposed censures of three members — as well as a call for two of them to resign.

Oct 14, 2026

It’s official: San Francisco will ditch its unpredictable, lottery-based enrollment system and instead assign elementary students to their neighborhood school, with limited ability to choose another option.

Oct 14, 2026

The Franklin High School community — its students, teachers and parents — are struggling to find a way forward as they mourn the death of senior Xavier Nungaray-Martinez, who was repeatedly hit by another student and then fell over a fourth-story railing on campus, a traumatic sequence of events that has sundered any sense of normalcy and prompted districtwide demands for safer schools.

Oct 14, 2026

Beginning this year, California is offering $10,000 stipends to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs as they complete their student teaching requirements.

Oct 14, 2026

Porterville Unified is not the only school district in the state trying to make its campuses more resilient to climate change. But students here have played an unusually active role in the process.

Oct 13, 2026

New safety features are in place to ensure drivers slow down for pedestrians on the street where a 9-year-old boy was hit by a car outside a Santa Rosa elementary school in August. Road markings, traffic delineators and yield signs were installed Saturday, Oct. 10, on Yulupa Avenue outside Village Elementary School.

Oct 13, 2026

As Santa Rosa City Schools settles into a second year following an unprecedented combination of school closures and workforce cuts, preliminary data showed the district saved more than $11.1 million through the fiscal year that ended this past June.

Oct 13, 2026

Saavedra, 55, resigned on Friday, the day after a Marin Superior Court judge issued a three-year restraining order against him. It prohibits Saavedra from electronic or physical contact with Ina Gotlieb, the parent of a student in the district.

Oct 13, 2026

Plumas is the most recent of 10 California districts to go through the process known as receivership. Sacramento City Unified School District, 100 miles down the hill, is trying hard not to become the next.

Oct 13, 2026

In 2009, a group of 25 students at Eagle Rock Elementary were asked by students at Cal Poly Pomona to draw their dream campus. Nearly all sketched schools with trees, farms and ponds.

Oct 12, 2026

As conversations continue on the use of technology in schools, Petaluma City Schools district leaders are considering scaling back on district-issued devices for younger students while updating the district’s policy on which devices older students can use to complete their classwork.

Oct 12, 2026

Voters in the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District are being asked to consider a multimillion-dollar bond measure this election that would fund a myriad of campus facilities projects — and the district is at odds with one school board member over his characterization of the ballot measure.

Oct 12, 2026

After weeks of protests and community meetings, Novato Unified School District officials agreed to discontinue sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Hamilton School by next fall because of sharply declining enrollment.

Oct 12, 2026

Kevin Saavedra is barred from any form of electronic, written, oral or physical contact with Ina Gotlieb or her child, who attends one of the two alternative schools in the district. Gotlieb sought a restraining order against Saavedra over a series of alleged email and video attacks, threats and profane remarks over the last 10 months.

Oct 12, 2026

Fitch Ratings analysts grew more skeptical about Sacramento City Unified’s ability to pay its bills, lowering its overall credit rating this week to a “highly speculative” level in which an economic downturn could make it harder for the district to meet its future financial obligations.

Oct 12, 2026

A Rialto Unified School District educator has denounced the district for releasing private disciplinary records about his demotion, potentially sabotaging his election bid for San Bernardino County superintendent of schools.

Oct 12, 2026

At a rowdy Thursday night board meeting, the board of the Grossmont Union High School District voted down a formal censure of a longtime trustee over behavior revealed by The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Oct 12, 2026

More than 800 public schools face a triple burden: little tree cover, high concentrations of low-income students and elevated heat risk.

Oct 12, 2026

At Parkway Elementary School in Sacramento, students climb on logs beneath 58 new trees, explore flowering plants and use outdoor spaces as an extension of their regular classrooms.

Oct 09, 2026

District enrollment is down almost 20% over the past decade, according to statistics kept by the California Department of Education. Some of the district’s schools have about half as many students as they did 10 years ago.

Oct 09, 2026

Sutter also said he expects “most of the expenses associated with the incident to be covered by the district’s insurance.” Administrators plan to use a “designated emergency closure day” to make up for the missed instructional day on Monday.

Oct 09, 2026

The San Luis Coastal school board approved a more than $323,000 annual contract Tuesday night, confirming its choice for the candidate slated to take over as the district’s next superintendent in July.

Oct 09, 2026

As Central Valley residents see increased ICE activity, some school districts around the Fresno area are communicating with families who may be concerned.

Oct 09, 2026

Sacramento City Unified School District’s multiyear projections to address its fiscal crisis relied on revenue assumptions that alarmed fiscal overseers. One of those assumptions counted on about $31 million a year from a state grant, which the district received this school year.

Oct 09, 2026

Superintendent Darnise Williams, who was placed on administrative leave in August, has sued the Antioch Unified School District and a Board of Trustees member for allegations including race, gender and age discrimination, harassment and a hostile work environment.

Oct 09, 2026

California superintendent of public instruction candidates Sonja Shaw and Richard Barrera offered sharply different visions for the state’s top elected education post during a Wednesday evening debate hosted by EdSource, clashing over testing, parental rights, LGBTQ+ students and the role of politics in schools.

Oct 09, 2026

A Marin County Superior Court judge on Thursday granted a restraining order against Tamalpais Union High School District trustee Kevin Saavedra, barring him from contacting or approaching a district parent who said he had harassed her for nearly a year.

Oct 09, 2026

The Los Angeles Unified School District’s restrictions on generative artificial intelligence have drawn mixed reactions from education experts and students.

Oct 09, 2026

With more than $3 billion in Proposition 28 funds distributed since 2023, school districts across California have hired hundreds more for visual arts, music, dance and theater classes in schools.

Oct 08, 2026

Though the position is an elected one, the last five county superintendents were appointed to the job at first, to replace a predecessor who retired midway through the term. And when those superintendents stood for re-election, they almost never faced opposition.

Oct 08, 2026

One of the longest-serving members of the troubled Grossmont Union High School District’s board has been flouting official guidance to share legally sensitive information with his friends, while also airing grievances privately and plotting to exert control over the superintendent and other trustees, emails obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune show.

Oct 08, 2026

Reigniting a long-simmering debate about police patrols at Los Angeles Unified schools, a group of parents on Wednesday called for officers to be returned to campuses after a student was attacked at Franklin High School and died after falling over a fourth-floor railing.

Oct 08, 2026

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has not laid out a detailed plan for improving California schools, leaving education leaders to piece together what his administration might mean for the state’s nearly 6 million public school students.

Oct 07, 2026

Parents of Gompers Elementary School, in Lakewood, say they are concerned about their children’s education as the Long Beach Unified School District considers closing the campus at the end of the 2026-27 academic year.

Oct 07, 2026

A Petaluma janitor and the union that represents her are fighting Petaluma City Schools over an alleged district bookkeeping error that resulted in her being docked $2,318 in pay over the course of three months, jeopardizing her ability to pay rent.

Oct 07, 2026

Natomas Unified School District continues to face scrutiny over how it treats Black students and students with disabilities, as local and state investigators have raised concerns about the district’s discipline practices and student protections.

Oct 07, 2026

The Pasadena Unified School District’s chief executive this week called for a “shared vision” on the heels of past mistakes over the district’s efforts to stem the impact of major enrollment declines that threaten the closure of schools.

Oct 07, 2026

In efforts to make more housing available for staff and teachers, San Jose Unified School District filed plans to develop more than 200 apartments in the city as they continue an analysis of the purchase of an existing apartment tower near San Pedro Square.

Oct 07, 2026

The Trump administration has launched an “enforcement action” against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing it of hiding sensitive student information from parents in relation to a student’s gender identity.

Oct 07, 2026

During warm-ups at Selma High School football games, players lift their jerseys to show equipment with religious messages or pictures in tribute to loved ones. This past month, 17-year-old starting quarterback Adam Soria had his own message.

Oct 06, 2026

Enrollment in the Goleta Union School District has dropped four percent in the past year, and the District has seen steady decline since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Oct 06, 2026

Despite years of remedial efforts, low grades among African American students at Tamalpais Union High School District rose significantly in 2025-26 and were the highest rate among all student ethnic groups, the district reported.

Oct 06, 2026

Elementary and middle school students will soon have access to expanded language learning in San Francisco after the San Francisco Unified School District announced this month it will open a Mandarin-language immersion school in the next academic year at the Mission Education Center.

Oct 06, 2026

The financial picture for Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools deepened Sunday as it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, amid a dispute over a state audit finding and uncertainty about whether its schools can continue operating under their current charters.

Oct 06, 2026

Pressure has intensified on Los Angeles Unified to follow through with emergency budget cuts after a California fiscal crisis oversight team concluded that the school district is at “high risk” for insolvency — and must move quickly to avoid losing control over budget decisions.

Oct 06, 2026

It’s clear what the next state superintendent will no longer do upon assuming office in January: run the California Department of Education. What’s unclear is what the next state superintendent will actually do.

Oct 05, 2026

The $130,000 field was funded through a donation to Novato Unified School District from the MetLife Foundation as part of the “Safe Places to Play” program in partnership with the U.S. Soccer Foundation.

Oct 05, 2026

Police are investigating after videos show a Temecula school board member placing an unknown device under a desk shared by two fellow trustees, leading to accusations that she illegally recorded them.

Oct 05, 2026

This November, Alum Rock Union Elementary School District is asking Santa Clara County voters to approve a parcel tax and school bond that officials say will prevent budget cuts, protect academic programs and repair aging facilities — and will total more than $215 million by the time it ends in 2054.

Oct 05, 2026

More college-bound California high school students took the SAT exam than in previous years — a 12.6% increase, the College Board said.

Oct 05, 2026

As California officially recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ Day — celebrated annually on the second Monday in October — Native American students continue to lag behind other racial and ethnic groups in test scores, absenteeism and graduation rates across the state’s public schools.

Oct 02, 2026

On Thursday, the Sacramento City Unified School District board reapproved its agreement with the teachers’ union after the fiscal adviser suspended the initial approval in September, saying the district had not met state requirements for public disclosure and county office review.

Oct 02, 2026

Two bond measures for Modesto school districts are on the November ballot, one for Modesto City Schools and one for Sylvan Union.

Oct 02, 2026

A winter of potentially devastating weather driven by what scientists predict to be a massive El Niño event could strain many of California’s TK-12 public schools, experts say, likely damaging aging structures and forcing school closures.

Oct 01, 2026

A student, reported by multiple media outlets to be a boy, is believed to have fallen from the balcony and sustained fatal injuries at about 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Oct 01, 2026

The $62,800 program will be a series of three, three-hour sessions led by staff from Edapt, a California company specializing in AI implementation training for educators.

Oct 01, 2026

Needles, feces and trash litter the blocks around Marshall Elementary, a predominantly Latino public school in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District.

Oct 01, 2026

A bill simplifying the reclassification of English-learning students was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday. For the almost 25,000 English-learning students in Stanislaus County, the reclassification process now requires only that they score a 4 on the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California test.

Oct 01, 2026

The office of state superintendent of public instruction is classified as nonpartisan, but that’s not how the candidates line up.

Oct 01, 2026

All kindergartners, first- and second-graders in California will take a basic math skills test under a law signed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Oct 01, 2026

Schools seeking to spend their windfall of Proposition 28 arts education money will have more clarity and guidelines under a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed over the weekend.

Oct 01, 2026

Last year, San Diego parent Mayra Alvarez enrolled her 4-year-old daughter in transitional kindergarten, or TK, so she could attend the public school in their neighborhood alongside children of all backgrounds in lieu of private preschool.

Oct 01, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills into law last month that will impact California schools and students. Some changes will take effect immediately, while others won’t affect schools until next school year.

Sep 30, 2026

Indeed, of the total cash prize, $30,000 will go to the skilled trades educator and $70,000 will be set aside to benefit the school’s program. Lizarraga was one of just five public high school skilled trades teachers across the United States who were surprised with the news Tuesday that they had won.

Sep 30, 2026

The committee studying which public schools in Ventura to close will hold its final two meetings in the coming weeks before it hands its recommendations over for a decision by the school board.

Sep 30, 2026

As the growing power of artificial intelligence continues to be a worldwide concern, district leaders and parents within Petaluma City Schools are discussing how local students may use it in education while remaining protected from its dangers.

Sep 30, 2026

The California School Employees Association filed an unfair practice charge last month, alleging that San Juan Unified School District refused to negotiate how the recent layoffs and related staffing changes would affect employees and failed to provide information needed to represent them.

Sep 30, 2026

A watchdog group that publishes compensation data for California public officials has sued the state education department in San Diego court for refusing to provide key school officials’ contact information in a spreadsheet it needs to request pay details from districts and charter schools.

Sep 30, 2026

When Joel Francik became principal of Central Elementary School in 2019, all of his prior education experience had been in middle school — first as a teacher, then as an assistant principal.

Sep 30, 2026

The California Federation of Teachers, a statewide labor union representing over 120,000 educational employees, announced Tuesday it had joined a lawsuit filed by the California Teacher’s Association earlier this month to recover the $1.9 billion in education funds withheld by Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2024-25 school year, as well as $3.9 billion withheld in the revised state budget the legislature approved in July.

Sep 29, 2026

For generations, kids have learned how to ride a bike — a quintessential childhood milestone — in driveways, on sidewalks and in neighborhood streets. Now, they’re learning in school gyms and playgrounds.

Sep 29, 2026

More state money to pay for arts teachers will reach local schools if legislation signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom works out as intended, but the new law will not resolve a lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles school district of misspending as much as $77 million in its share of the funding.

Sep 29, 2026

Vicky Chon started canvassing on a recent Saturday morning in the Glenmoor neighborhood of Fremont, where the 1950s to ‘70s ranch homes line streets evoking names from that era: Mildred, Gertrude, Bonnie, Helen.

Sep 28, 2026

As an initiative to enforce illicit cannabis use at Chico high schools, the Chico Unified School District board was asked to consider co-funding $2.5 million to employ school resource officers.

Sep 28, 2026

Thursday’s Pasadena Unified School District Board meeting saw more fervent support for its consolidation efforts – a move that some say could financially relieve the district at the cost of school closures.

Sep 28, 2026

Hoover has now closed — with students largely attending Bancroft Middle School, as well as other campuses — and LBUSD has also made several layoffs before approving its $1.26 billion operating budget this year, because of its ongoing deficit.

Sep 28, 2026

Nearly five months after declaring an impasse in contract negotiations, Ventura Unified School District and its two unions have yet to reach an agreement.

Sep 28, 2026

The elementary school district of San Rafael City Schools needs to continue “critical” monitoring of its budget, the Marin County Office of Education said in a warning letter.

Sep 28, 2026

A Sacramento charter school that the state auditor blasted last year for allegedly wrongfully receiving $180 million is seeking a new home — and a new name — in Sutter County.

Sep 28, 2026

In the state’s largest school district, making meals available to all students — breakfast, lunch and sometimes, dinner — is a massive operation. From Pepperoni Pizza to Birria Bowls, to vegetarian and vegan offerings, students have a range of options to choose from.

Sep 28, 2026

On day eight of the school year, Casey Ramirez’s ninth-grade Ethnic Studies class quietly discussed in pairs the parts of their identity they especially valued, that they would stand up and advocate for.

Sep 28, 2026

With school in session, students across California are adjusting to new cellphone use policies during class time. This summer, a new California law required all school districts in the state to have policies in place either limiting or prohibiting the use of cellphones in school.

Sep 28, 2026

In a major overhaul of a decades-old practice, nearly 1 million California students designated as English learners will no longer have to pass a battery of tests and benchmarks to move out of a program that advocates say has long been holding back their education, under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday.

Sep 28, 2026

In November, California voters will choose between two candidates vying to be the next state superintendent of public instruction. But this election comes with a plot twist: The job has changed.

Sep 25, 2026

Data compiled and made publicly available by The Washington Post show that, in the 2023-24 school year, 64 public, charter and elementary schools in the Valley had fewer than 95% of kindergarten students who were fully vaccinated – receiving at least two doses of measles vaccine by the time they entered school.

Sep 25, 2026

A Stockton culinary arts teacher at Lincoln High School was arrested on suspicion of possessing more than 65,000 images of child abuse sexual material, the California Highway Patrol said Wednesday.

Sep 25, 2026

Immigration arrests of parents and students have been reported feet away from schools and a community college. Teachers and school leaders say the arrests are increasing fear among parents and students, and in some cases affecting attendance.

Sep 25, 2026

Two local school board presidents, Richard Barrera and Sonja Shaw, will face off in the November election for the position of state superintendent of public instruction — a role that has transformed significantly since the candidates first launched their campaigns.

Sep 24, 2026

Next month, Fortuna Union High School District’s board will vote on a plan to compensate families from Bridgeville for travel expenses accrued during the community’s loss of bus service.

Sep 24, 2026

A nearly $11 million federal grant announced Tuesday will pay for construction of a hangar and educational facility in eastern Kern County to support local training in aviation maintenance and related careers.

Sep 24, 2026

Resolution 2627-06, proposed by trustee Caitlin Quinn and discussed at the board’s Sept. 15 meeting, would prohibit “new wireless telecommunication installations on the district’s school grounds” as well as “any extension or renewal of existing ground leases for the maintenance of wireless telecommunication installations on district property.”

Sep 24, 2026

Former California Secretary of Education David Long is seeking a court order to unseal records from a state audit into Val Verde Unified’s partnership with a Chinese boarding school, alleging Riverside County education officials suppressed records and sought to blame him for suspected misconduct.

Sep 24, 2026

When young students miss school, the days absent can quickly add up and impact student learning. About 24% of California’s youngest students were chronically absent in 2024-25, higher than the 19% chronic absenteeism rate for all students.

Sep 24, 2026

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton views California’s low third grade reading and math scores as a crisis and an indictment of the state’s “catastrophically failing system.”

Sep 24, 2026

Steve Hilton’s education reforms are a trip back to the future. The Republican candidate for California governor has called for abolishing teacher tenure, reviving an issue that has been taboo for a decade in the state after bruising battles in court and the Legislature.

Sep 22, 2026

Sacramento City Unified’s budget tells two very different stories about what happens next. By the numbers in the budget the district adopted in June, the district is headed toward a $228.9 million deficit by the end of 2026-27 school year.

Sep 22, 2026

After putting the potential discipline or firing of its schools chief on an agenda, the Val Verde school board decided to try to work things out with Superintendent Gordon Amerson.

Sep 22, 2026

Logan Fanene uses ChatGPT to fix his car, but homework is a different story. The Bay Area high school senior tries to avoid using artificial intelligence to help with school work, he says.

Sep 21, 2026

Superintendent Mike Herfurth of Rincon Valley Union School District is stepping down from the district’s top job, which he held on interim basis for two years before his full appointment four months ago.

Sep 21, 2026

Santa Rosa Language Academy, formerly known as Cesar Chavez Language Academy, is poised to get a new official name this year, joining one of many institutions and placenames to formally move on from any association with the legacy of the disgraced late farm labor leader.

Sep 21, 2026

Attendance at Marin public schools is down 2% overall from about the same time last year, according to a new report from the county education office. The report reflects attendance from transitional kindergarten to 12th grade at 17 school districts and two charter schools.

Sep 21, 2026

The Encinitas Union School District settled a lawsuit filed by the parents of two students who said a class activity involving a book about gender identity infringed on the students’ religious beliefs.

Sep 21, 2026

In some California schools, physical education now includes a milestone most children could only reach with an adult available and a safe place to practice. Kindergartners at Rancho Cucamonga's Terra Vista Elementary School are already learning to bike as part of the curriculum.

Sep 21, 2026

One year after California made transitional kindergarten available to every 4-year-old, educators and early childhood experts say the new grade still looks different from one school to another.

Sep 18, 2026

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a 2025 order from the Trump administration that cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money.

Sep 18, 2026

The board approved changes to its 2026-27 budget, which include more than $70 million in revenue adjustments from sources such as professional development block grants and retiree reimbursements.

Sep 18, 2026

The Twin Rivers Unified School District board on Tuesday formally opposed a proposed crematorium near D.W. Babcock Elementary in Sacramento that has been the subject of community concerns over potential emissions for months.

Sep 18, 2026

The Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into allegations that the Etiwanda School District failed to protect a Jewish seventh grade student from persistent antisemitic taunting and harassment by other middle school students.

Sep 17, 2026

A 14-year-old student at Casa Grande High School was arrested Wednesday following reports that she had brought a handgun to school, police said.

Sep 17, 2026

Elk Grove Unified School District lacks clear procedures to ensure students with disabilities consistently receive the services outlined in their education plans, an outside review found, prompting district officials to pledge systemwide changes.

Sep 17, 2026

Sacramento County Office of Education-appointed fiscal adviser has temporarily suspended Sacramento City Unified’s approval of a new teachers union agreement, saying the district did not comply with state law in the process.

Sep 17, 2026

Roseland School District rang in the new academic year celebrating extensive renovations at its flagship campus, Roseland Elementary, which now has a new array of transitional kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms, an updated parking area and playgrounds.

Sep 17, 2026

Enrollment in Los Angeles schools has taken another steep dive — about 4% this year — as officials press ahead with a multibillion-dollar modernization and rebuilding plan, raising questions about investing in campuses that may soon be shuttered.

Sep 16, 2026

The email to district parents said people in the area have been creating and sharing unsettling or threatening AI-generated or digitally altered images of the character. In some cases, the images and videos have referenced specific schools, locations, communities or individuals.

Sep 16, 2026

Four shuttered Santa Rosa City Schools sites have been declared surplus and are now formally ready to go through the disposition process, where the district has been advised to favor long-term leases.

Sep 16, 2026

California’s largest teachers union sued state officials Tuesday over nearly $6 billion in withheld school funding, alleging that budget actions approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature violated the state’s constitutional education funding guarantee.

Sep 16, 2026

A Bay Area school district being sued in federal court for denying parents their request to opt out of LGBTQ+ curriculum on religious grounds has now agreed to allow students to skip such lessons, federal court records show.

Sep 16, 2026

It remains illegal in California for a school district to force teachers and other staff to alert parents about their child’s gender identity, but parents must be told when they ask about it, a judge ruled Tuesday in a widely watched case dealing with parental rights.

Sep 16, 2026

A group of Jewish parents and teachers are celebrating a recent court ruling that will allow them to refile a lawsuit against the United Teachers Los Angeles union and creators of the controversial “liberated” ethnic studies curriculum that some Los Angeles Unified teachers use.

Sep 15, 2026

Amid yet another record heatwave across Southern California last week, local parents are demanding the Torrance Unified School District find a way to cool down classrooms.

Sep 15, 2026

The committee studying which schools to close in Ventura is nearing the end of its work and will meet again on Sept. 17 to discuss its list of potential closures.

Sep 15, 2026

Police forces at California’s K-12 schools have quietly been purchasing and using military equipment for decades — and some have yet to comply with a state law requiring them to disclose that to the public.

Sep 15, 2026

Months after community members in Escondido Union School District began raising concerns about the circumstances surrounding a board trustee’s departure, a new replacement has been named — but with his appointment, tensions in the district have boiled over.

Sep 15, 2026

Los Angeles Unified School District recently announced it will bar student use of generative artificial intelligence on school devices for the 2026-27 academic year, joining New York City Public Schools in limiting children’s access to a technology no one yet knows how to safely manage.

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

At Summerville Elementary, the $150,000 gift is expected to provide long-term financial support for instruments, sheet music and other needs while allowing the district to expand its performing arts offerings.

Sep 11, 2026

Six teenagers were arrested Tuesday, Sept. 8, after a fight among students at a Redlands high school that injured staff members and resulted in several students being pepper sprayed, police said.

Sep 11, 2026

A handful of students in the Paso Robles school district protested the district’s dress code at a school board meeting Tuesday night, saying the enforcement of the code has unfairly targeted female students and caused more disruptions than it has solved.

Sep 11, 2026

As it works to address its ongoing fiscal crisis, the Sacramento City Unified School District has revised its fiscal plan and asked the Sacramento County Office of Education to withdraw its rescission of a teachers’ agreement by Sept. 17, arguing that it has satisfied state and county demands for solvency.

Sep 11, 2026

Parents are frustrated and concerned after discovering many classrooms in the Torrance Unified School District do not have air conditioning, leaving students to endure hot temperatures amid a record heatwave in the region.

Sep 11, 2026

From a longtime elementary teacher in San Mateo County to a principal in Costa Mesa, several California school employees have been arrested for child sexual misconduct charges just in the past month.

Sep 11, 2026

California schools will test all kindergartners, first- and second-graders in basic math skills and provide them tutoring if they need it, under a bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

Sep 10, 2026

New UCLA research finds schools in San Diego County and statewide need to do more to support homeless students, calling homelessness an educational crisis that requires regional investment, dedicated funding, more federal protections and integrated cross-system support.

Sep 10, 2026

As the school year begins, there is a new law that affects all school districts in California known as Assembly Bill 715, which was co-authored by Central Coast Assemblymember Dawn Addis.

Sep 10, 2026

The salary for a newly credentialed San Francisco teacher starts at around $80,000 a year(opens in new tab). A one-bedroom apartment in the city rents for (opens in new tab)more than $4,000 a month(opens in new tab) — or 60% of that salary before taxes.

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.