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Oct 28, 2025
Though test scores in La Jolla public schools remain well above averages in the San Diego Unified School District, they are less so as students make the transition from elementary to middle and high school.
Oct 28, 2025
The independent monitor tasked with creating and enforcing the Black Parallel School Board action plan at Sacramento City Unified School District stepped down Monday, according to a joint news release from the school district.
Oct 28, 2025
California education officials are tasked with a difficult mission over the next few months — finding the best way to figure out which 4-year-olds need extra help learning English.
Oct 27, 2025
Often referred to as the first of a two-year-kindergarten program, transitional kindergarten is California’s newest grade level. It helps prepare youngsters for kindergarten through play-based learning.
Oct 27, 2025
As of last school year, roughly 18% of all Lodi Unified students are enrolled in special education — a level several percentage points above the statewide average.
Oct 27, 2025
At CART High near Fresno, there is no gum stuck to the floor. The saffron-yellow walls are unmarred by graffiti. Toting laptops, students file calmly down spacious, light-filled hallways to classes like biotechnology and digital marketing.
Oct 27, 2025
Sacramento City Unified School District canceled a Friday meeting requested by families of Phoebe Hearst Elementary School regarding the two teachers who were removed from their classrooms this school year.
Oct 27, 2025
Fewer San Diego County kindergarteners are getting their state-required childhood vaccinations each year, and their measles immunization rate places the county below herd immunity levels, county data for the last school year shows.
Oct 27, 2025
A White House decision to add $100,000 to the price of a work visa, allowing employers to hire from overseas for hard-to-fill positions, has California’s technology industry and other businesses reeling. But another group is also on edge: the state’s schools.
Oct 24, 2025
The Lodi Unified School District will be developing a five-year strategic plan in the near future, and will begin the planning process next spring.
Oct 24, 2025
Teachers in the St. Helena Unified School District earn an average of $155,546 per year, according to state data for 2023-24 — making it one of the highest-paying public school districts in California.
Oct 24, 2025
The Sacramento Police Department starting in January will no longer assign school resource officers to the Natomas Unified School District, which will end a three-year, $2.1 million contract five months after it began.
Oct 24, 2025
The former leader of Grossmont Union High School District, longtime district educator Mike Fowler, has died after a battle with brain cancer. Fowler was chosen in April of last year to lead the East County district of about 16,500 students after serving in the district for 28 years.
Oct 24, 2025
The Victor Valley Union High School District has agreed to pay $12.5 million to eight former students who alleged they were sexually abused more than 20 years ago by a former middle school guidance counselor.
Oct 24, 2025
McKinleyville Union School District has sued the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly discontinuing the district’s federal mental health grant illegally, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Oct 24, 2025
A public-interest law firm filed a lawsuit Thursday against the state of California, charging that its program to subsidize school construction perpetuates vast inequalities for students in low-wealth communities.
Oct 24, 2025
San Francisco State’s enrollment is in free fall — but the university is banking on a new agreement with the city’s school district and City College of San Francisco to help all three institutions.
Oct 22, 2025
The Tamalpais Union High School District board is not happy about another year of declining state test scores.
Oct 22, 2025
Santa Rosa City Schools officials are considering whether to float a proposed parcel tax to voters as early as next year as another way to help address the district’s severe budget crisis.
Oct 22, 2025
Alyssa Esquivel, an American Sign Language aide who sued the San Gabriel Unified School District for censorship, discrimination and retaliation because of her Christian faith and pro-Trump stance, has settled with the district, her attorneys announced Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Oct 21, 2025
The new law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading,” a method of literacy instruction focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out rather than learning words by sight.
Oct 21, 2025
According to recently released scores on the 2025 state Smarter Balanced Assessments, more than 46% of LAUSD students met or exceeded state standards in English, marking more than a 3% increase from the previous year.
Oct 21, 2025
Santa Rosa City Schools is turning to pay cuts for its top administrators and other district managers as another way to dig out of its financial crisis — and lay the groundwork for more campus staff layoffs that top officials say are inevitable to stave off the threat of a state takeover.
Oct 21, 2025
Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown, leaving many scrambling to figure out how to keep their doors open.
Oct 21, 2025
Schools often promote student sick day guidelines advising parents to send children to school with colds. Many parents resist, especially those with kindergartners, citing health concerns and fears of spreading illness to classmates and teachers.
Oct 20, 2025
Due to displays of unsportsmanlike conduct from spectators and players at a game held last Saturday against McKinleyville, Eureka High has determined the next boys soccer game will be played without fans.
Oct 20, 2025
The Novato Unified School District could lose up to 150 students because of immigration threats, jeopardizing the stability of its $130 million budget.
Oct 20, 2025
The Mill Valley School District released the latest soils test at Mill Valley Middle School that concluded the site does not present a health risk to students and staff.
Oct 20, 2025
While she didn’t do so intentionally, Ginny Fang picked a particularly tumultuous time to head up the San Francisco Unified School District’s nonprofit wing.
Oct 20, 2025
Standardized test scores in one Fresno area school district have made a triumphant comeback from the pandemic slump that sank results across the state’s public schools.
Oct 20, 2025
The Riverside school district now has an online form for parents to pull their children from lessons that don’t align with their religious beliefs.
Oct 20, 2025
Stuck in contentious negotiations over new contracts, two West Contra Costa Unified School District unions have overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking if district leadership cannot adequately meet their demands.
Oct 20, 2025
California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.
Oct 20, 2025
The tensions that had been building for months over a bill aiming to clamp down on antisemitism in California schools came to a head on a Friday morning last month.
Oct 20, 2025
When students walk into Gina Gray’s English classroom in Middle College High School on any given testing day, she greets them with encouragement: “Tap into your genius. You have it,” Gray reminds the 11th graders.
Oct 17, 2025
The Paso Robles school board will not consider a resolution restricting transgender students in the interest of protecting cisgender girls, it decided Tuesday night.
Oct 17, 2025
After 10 years of construction, the grand reopening of the east Salinas school, had finally arrived.
Oct 17, 2025
The buildings include space for arts and music programs, plus a multipurpose eating area and a flexible gathering space for students.
Oct 17, 2025
The superintendent of the Reed Union School District been chosen for a statewide panel with the California School Boards Association.
Oct 17, 2025
The new funding from the California Department of Education will let students take these college courses at Patterson High School instead of needing to drive to Modesto Junior College.
Oct 17, 2025
A small elementary district in northeast Santa Rosa has emerged as the latest Sonoma County school system to announce a multi-million dollar budget deficit that will require significant cuts.
Oct 17, 2025
Lawmakers’ attempts at enacting charter school and school accountability reforms in the wake of high-profile charter fraud cases have once again failed, after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have added a raft of oversight requirements.
Oct 17, 2025
Parents and students angry over the removal of two sixth-grade teachers from Phoebe Hearst Elementary School in East Sacramento voiced their frustration Thursday evening at the Sacramento City Unified School District board meeting.
Oct 16, 2025
Despite the fact that most schools haven’t surpassed their pre-COVID scores, SLO County is still out-performing statewide results.
Oct 16, 2025
After confusion and outrage over the future of a playing field in Marin City, school trustees have halted discussion about field use through the end of the year.
Oct 16, 2025
The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to fill the Trustee Area 5 seat by provisional appointment.
Oct 16, 2025
More than 100 teachers, aides and parents of special needs students in the district packed a board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Whittier.
Oct 16, 2025
The one-minute drill, which is designed to simulate the response to a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, was developed to teach people what to do when a large temblor strikes and ways to prepare for such a disaster.
Oct 16, 2025
A U.S. federal court judge has shut down a move by the Chino Valley school board to allow prayer at its board meetings.
Oct 16, 2025
The change trustees approved Tuesday evening is a scaled-back plan from the district, after community members voiced concerns at a September board meeting.
Oct 16, 2025
A divided Los Angeles school board has voted to shut down a popular charter school to make more space for its own program on the same Echo Park campus, pushing the boundaries of state law and school district authority over charters.
Oct 15, 2025
Sacramento students are underperforming in English language arts and mathematics assessments compared to their peers across the state, according to new data released by the California Department of Education.
Oct 15, 2025
For 50 years, families flooded into the East Bay’s Tri-Valley region for spacious homes and good schools. Districts scrambled to build school campuses fast enough to keep up.
Oct 15, 2025
The ranking and review site recently released its 2026 list of the Best Schools in America, evaluating schools based on academics, diversity, teachers and college preparation.
Oct 15, 2025
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board approved a new employment agreement for Superintendent Alberto Carvalho at Tuesday’s board meeting, weeks after unanimously reappointing him.
Oct 14, 2025
A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement and after-school programs.
Oct 14, 2025
The Hawthorne School District and Cal State Dominguez Hills recently inked an agreement to guarantee admission for graduates of the Hawthorne Math and Science Academy, the district’s only high school.
Oct 14, 2025
Each pod can be unlocked via the Mamava app and the space includes a seat, mirror, fan for white noise, shelves, outlets and coat hooks. The pods are open to breastfeeding teachers and staff, as well as any students who may need access.
Oct 14, 2025
Nearly 250 Phoebe Hearst Elementary School students stayed home from class Monday to protest the removal of two beloved sixth-grade teachers.
Oct 14, 2025
As local news outlets rapidly disappear, high school and college journalists are increasingly stepping beyond their campuses to report on their communities, helping to fill the news deserts left behind.
Oct 14, 2025
California legislators and representatives of education advocacy organizations and unions spent hundreds of hours negotiating education bills this legislative session.
Oct 13, 2025
On Monday, Oct. 6, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 268 into law, making California the third state to designate Diwali — the Hindu festival of lights — as an official statewide holiday.
Oct 13, 2025
Former Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner is running for the mayor of Los Angeles, becoming the most high-profile candidate to officially enter the 2026 race so far.
Oct 10, 2025
A discussion of transgender athletes in local sports turned tense this week as a resolution on federal Title IX protections for girls divided the Kern High School District Board of Trustees.
Oct 10, 2025
Los Angeles County Office of Education officials on Thursday, Oct. 9, painted a grim picture for the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education, warning that years of inaction by the district amid fiscal warning signs had left it at a crossroads that requires immediate and swift action to avoid county intervention and possibly receivership.
Oct 10, 2025
In a major education announcement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed that California’s K-12 students achieved significant gains in statewide test scores and signed a new literacy bill aimed to further bolster reading achievement across the state.
Oct 10, 2025
Selma Unified School District and its trustees have been accused of creating an “uneven playing field” for companies interested in placing bids on a recent roofing project, according to a lawsuit.
Oct 10, 2025
California K-12 students are faring slightly better than the year before, but more than half are still not meeting state standards, according to recently released annual standardized test results.
Oct 10, 2025
The superintendent of Julian Union Elementary School District is retiring at the end of the school year after more than a decade leading the tiny rural district in San Diego County’s mountainous east.
Oct 10, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval of Assembly Bill 1454 on Thursday marks the culmination of a five-year campaign to change how California children are taught to read.
Oct 10, 2025
Teachers across California are rushing to learn how to test students on vocabulary, how well they know their letters and the sounds they make, and how quickly they can name objects or letters in a row.
Oct 10, 2025
Five years after the Covid pandemic closed schools and pushed students into a year of distance learning, California test scores show that — despite increases — students are still struggling with learning loss.
Oct 09, 2025
The Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees plans to fill the vacant Area 2 trustee seat by provisional appointment in November, following a vote at a special board meeting Oct. 4 to appoint a new member rather than hold a special election.
Oct 09, 2025
The Pasadena Unified School District has announced its plans to implement $30-35 million in reductions for the 2026-27 school as part of a multi-year effort to address a financial crisis.
Oct 09, 2025
California will phase out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals over the next decade under a first-in-the-nation law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Oct 09, 2025
California’s K-12 schools will take far-ranging steps to prevent sexual abuse on campus — including building a database of teachers under investigation for misconduct — under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Oct 09, 2025
California will ban schools from selling ultra-processed foods, 10 months after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies to probe the health effects of certain food dyes and draft regulations for selling soda, candy and other foods that are additive-heavy.
Oct 08, 2025
The district, with its collaboration with the Hermosa Beach Police Department, was honored by the California School Boards Association’s Golden Bell Award for its “Be Safe, Be SMART” e-bike safety campaign, it was announced on Tuesday, Oct. 7.
Oct 08, 2025
Innovation High School and county officials are warning of possible tuberculosis exposures at the charter school’s Chula Vista learning center this summer.
Oct 08, 2025
The family of a Coronado Middle School seventh-grader who died by suicide has sued Coronado Unified School District, saying the school failed to protect him from “persistent and severe bullying” and ignored the serious impacts on his mental health.
Oct 08, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill that sets up a state Office for Civil Rights to combat antisemitism and other forms of discrimination in California schools.
Oct 07, 2025
Sonora Elementary School has brought back its Open Air Farmers’ Markets for students and has hosted three so far this year.
Oct 07, 2025
Mark Henrikson, a sixth-grade teacher at Phoebe Hearst Elementary School, was placed on administrative leave Monday. Parents believe he is being retaliated against by the school district for speaking out on behalf of his former partner-teacher who they say was unfairly removed from the classroom earlier this year.
Oct 07, 2025
The Learn4Life charter school network has been paid hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year to provide independent-study education, where students learn primarily on their own, for thousands of the state’s neediest students.
Oct 07, 2025
California’s school funding system, overhauled in 2013 to make it more equitable, is contributing to more inequality, a situation felt most sharply in counties that have a combination of rich and poor districts, according to a new study released Monday.
Oct 06, 2025
The Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Saturday to decide how to fill the Area 2 seat vacated after former Trustee AngelAnn Flores was removed following a felony conviction.
Oct 06, 2025
Some school districts sign contracts to gather children every morning in cars or transport vans; in other cases parents pay individually for a driver to arrive, Uber-like, and ferry their child off to class.
Oct 06, 2025
A $4 billion-a-year initiative created to combat pandemic-related learning loss and expand the regular school day in California is also addressing another issue — recruiting teachers.
Oct 06, 2025
California taxpayers send hundreds of millions of dollars every year to Learn4Life, one of the state’s largest charter school networks, with 65 locations that serve about 20,000 students each year.
Oct 06, 2025
A new school year brings an array of feelings: excitement, anticipation, nervousness, homesickness. Maria Caballero Magaña, a K-8 school counselor in Oxnard, knows these feelings well — familiar companions as students return to campus.
Oct 03, 2025
The state Department of Education said 13% of credentialed teachers in Marin’s public schools were people of color in 2024-25, up from 11% in 2018-19.
Oct 03, 2025
A man with a violent past snuck onto a stopped school bus transporting Alvord Unified students on Wednesday, Oct. 1, but he did not harm the six special needs students and was quickly arrested, the Riverside Police Department said Thursday.
Oct 03, 2025
A former member of the Burbank Unified School District Board of Education is facing criminal charges following allegations that she approved a contract with a company registered to her daughter and then funneled $93,000 worth of payments into her own bank account, authorities said.
Oct 03, 2025
An appellate court has ruled in favor of the Riverside school district and its previous superintendent, agreeing that the district was able to use bond funding for new school construction projects.
Oct 03, 2025
Parents at a California elementary school are alarmed after they said their children told them that a man was feeding children through the fence during recess.
Oct 03, 2025
A screenshot circulating throughout Shasta County showed a comment about conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who had been fatally shot earlier that day at Utah Valley University: “You reap what you sow Mr. Kirk.”
Oct 02, 2025
Effective Oct. 1, $250,000 of federal funds will be eliminated from Humboldt County Public Health’s CalFresh Healthy Living budget, which funds programs and outreach to improve the health and nutrition of children and vulnerable members of our community.
Oct 02, 2025
Marin County Office of Education has warned the Tamalpais Union High School District that its multiyear budget projections rely on lower-than-recommended reserve levels and salary cuts.
Oct 02, 2025
The San Francisco Unified School District claims literacy rates are improving across the board for its youngest students thanks to an initiative that relies heavily on artificial intelligence.
Oct 02, 2025
San Francisco will open a new public school next fall, the first in 20 years and likely the last for the foreseeable future given declining enrollment, nonetheless offering families on the city’s burgeoning east side a sleek, four-story structure eventually enrolling up to 448 pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students.
Oct 02, 2025
For California students, parents and schools, there are many concerns about the federal government shutdown, the first since 2018. In the short term, Californians should see no changes.
Oct 02, 2025
A 55-year-old woman who stripped down to her bikini at a school board meeting last month in protest of the district’s policy on bathroom access by transgender students will not face criminal charges, according to authorities.
Oct 02, 2025
At least 20 teachers in California’s K-12 schools are facing disciplinary action after they made derogatory comments about right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assasination last month.
Oct 01, 2025
Needing to decide whether to sell, lease or retain schools that have recently closed, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees will seek input from a committee that it appointed this year to address the issue.
Oct 01, 2025
A Black former St. Hope Public Schools principal is suing the charter school, alleging that white administrators retaliated against her after she pushed for better conditions for students at the school.
Oct 01, 2025
Over the past decade, Fresno Unified’s dual-language immersion program has quadrupled in popularity, growing from 900 pupils to 4,665 students at 20 schools.
Oct 01, 2025
Already diminished by cuts by the Trump administration, the U.S. Education Department will see more of its work come to a halt due to the government shutdown.
Sep 30, 2025
Paso Robles community members are urging the school district to fire an employee who reportedly posted controversial statements to social media after the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. But the school district said terminating the coach’s contract could violate her First Amendment rights.
Sep 30, 2025
Students will return Tuesday morning to a temporary campus at the site of Marquez Elementary, about nine months after it burned to the ground in the devastating Palisades fire — prompting celebration and some concerns as the school and the surrounding community struggle to recover.
Sep 30, 2025
On the eve of what was expected to be a long and gut-wrenching trial, a small school district in Santa Barbara County has settled a sexual abuse lawsuit for $7.5 million with two brothers, now 65 and 68 years old, who claimed a long-dead principal molested them in the 1970s.
Sep 29, 2025
A Larkspur-Corte Madera School District trustee is giving up his seat to take a consulting job overseas.
Sep 29, 2025
Fresno Unified has filed a lawsuit against Pacific Rim Painting after a teacher was injured as a result of alleged “negligence” on the company’s part during a job at Vinland Elementary.
Sep 29, 2025
Mark Henrikson is planning Thursday to make his voice heard once more to the board of the Sacramento City Unified School District. Henrikson teaches sixth grade at Phoebe A. Hearst Elementary School in east Sacramento.
Sep 29, 2025
Rialto Unified’s embattled Nutrition Services director has agreed to resign amid allegations she and her top managers inflated student meal count numbers to extract more reimbursement — possibly millions of dollars — from state and federal programs.
Sep 29, 2025
Students are at risk unless West Contra Costa Unified School District leaders make significant changes, argued teachers and staff who are in the middle of negotiating a new contract.
Sep 29, 2025
California schools are rolling out new protections for immigrant families following disturbing incidents this spring in which federal immigration agents set off flashbang grenades within earshot of schoolyards, urinated on playgrounds and attempted to contact young children without warrants or parental permission.
Sep 29, 2025
Proposition 28, or The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, gives California school districts about $1 billion per year for arts education but advocates said some school districts are having a hard time finding staff and navigating program requirements.
Sep 29, 2025
A teacher tells a student not to use AI in a research assignment. But when the student does a browser search, an AI-generated explanation pops up unprompted. Has the student just cheated? What now?
Sep 29, 2025
As students at Maywood Academy High School in Los Angeles County prepared their backpacks to return to school, some packed additional items they never had before — government-issued documents verifying their legal immigration status and cards listing their legal rights.
Sep 26, 2025
On Thursday, district administrators, local supporters and partners in the effort gathered at the KHSD Nutrition Services Central Kitchen in southeast Bakersfield to celebrate the grand opening of its new hydroponics gardens
Sep 26, 2025
When the trial in the civil case against the Montecito school district begins later this week, attorneys for the brothers ― identified in court documents as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2 ― will argue the school failed to protect them and seek millions of dollars in damages.
Sep 26, 2025
San Rafael City Schools plans to sell a surplus property on the open market now that 18 months of a priority nonprofit bidding process did not result in a deal.
Sep 26, 2025
The unusually large number of CIF Southern Section football players labeled as ineligible, and the resulting forfeitures, comes from a combination of poorly executed transfer paperwork and the CIF-SS office becoming more vigorous in enforcing its rules and bylaws, CIF-SS commissioner Mike West said Thursday.
Sep 26, 2025
Sonora High School students in teacher Jason Rivera’s construction class are building a retaining wall behind their classroom, and the project is being touted as an example of how Career Technical Education (CTE) opportunities are providing students with real-world work experience and skills they can take with them to future jobs.
Sep 26, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills meant to protect schools from being targets of federal immigration enforcement. Both bills took effect immediately upon signing, as they contained an emergency clause.
Sep 26, 2025
Bertha Pendleton, who spent more than four decades serving the San Diego Unified School District, steadily climbing the ranks and becoming the first Black person and the first woman to lead what was then the eighth-largest school district in America, died this week in Las Vegas. She was 92.
Sep 26, 2025
California’s Department of Education is sharing a study from the Learning Policy Institute that found the $4.1 billion California community schools partnership program has positively impacted students since it was started in 2021.
Sep 26, 2025
As a child, Saran Tugsjargal’s school gave her a long list of labels that described her disabilities. But there was one that stuck out the most: emotionally disturbed.
Sep 25, 2025
As the Trump administration has ratcheted up immigration enforcement, school districts across the country have rallied to support students and families without legal status. But perhaps none more so than Los Angeles Unified.
Sep 25, 2025
The Elk Grove Unified School District board voted 7-1 to stop future discussion of a proposal that would have banned transgender students from participating in girls’ school sports.
Sep 25, 2025
Four Inland Empire school districts have signed onto a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court to support a case seeking to ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports.
Sep 25, 2025
California school leaders will have to wait until next year — if then — to see any relief from a surge of sexual abuse lawsuits that are costing them fat settlements and rising legal bills and insurance costs.
Sep 24, 2025
The project included repairing, refinishing, and restriping the court, the first time such improvements have been done since its inception in 1967.
Sep 24, 2025
Former Stockton Unified School District Trustee AngelAnn Flores was sentenced Monday in San Joaquin County Superior Court to two years of informal probation and ordered to complete 120 hours of community service for her felony conviction of filing a false insurance claim.
Sep 24, 2025
Four Inland Empire school districts have signed onto a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court to support a case seeking to ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports.
Sep 24, 2025
Temecula schools’ leaders have tapped one of their own to be the next superintendent. Kimberly Velez, a 24-year veteran of the Temecula Valley Unified School District, will direct the school system starting Jan. 1.
Sep 24, 2025
In the midst of Gavin Newsom’s intensive war of words with President Donald Trump — and defiance of his policies — the governor has signed legislation strengthening protections for California students and families from immigration enforcement activity on school campuses.
Sep 24, 2025
Police are searching for a man who drew a swastika outside a Beverly Hills elementary school on Monday, which marked the start of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashana.
Sep 24, 2025
After Jane Huang graduated from Eureka High School in 2018, she knew she wanted to go to college in a different town. She had struggled with severe depression, and when she could not keep up with her classes, teachers called her “lazy.”
Sep 23, 2025
The Torrance Unified School District has seen absenteeism rates return to pre-COVID-19 levels and its graduation rate climb to around 96%, officials said recently.
Sep 23, 2025
Rosemead School District has agreed to pay $185,000 to El Monte Mayor Jessica Ancona, a former Muscatel Middle School principal, to settle a lawsuit alleging the district’s leadership harassed and demoted Ancona for refusing to back down from the suspension of a school board member’s nephew.
Sep 23, 2025
A fire at an Oxnard elementary school Sept. 22 destroyed one building and shut down classes for at least the day.
Sep 23, 2025
Drivers should know that when school bus red lights are flashing, it’s illegal to pass. The California law is designed to protect children who are getting on or off a school bus.
Sep 23, 2025
A legal expert questioned the authority of a Davis school board that halted the public comment of a woman who stripped down to her bikini to protest a policy related to transgender students.
Sep 23, 2025
Teachers in the Clovis Unified School District are within reach of becoming unionized — the closest they’ve been in decades. Now, they have a choice of two suitors.
Sep 22, 2025
A jury on July 10 found Flores guilty of filing a false insurance claim but acquitted her of embezzlement and misusing public funds, charges her supporters say were fueled by local political vendettas.
Sep 22, 2025
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District is celebrating statewide recognition for its commitment to student success through Positive Behavioral Interventions Supports.
Sep 22, 2025
The number of police calls to Novato schools last year was about the same as the prior school year, but one high school had four times as many calls than the other, according to the school district.
Sep 22, 2025
Although the district’s budget was approved for the current year and two years out, warning lights are flashing in the roughly $30 million spending plan, said Breean Brown, an assistant superintendent with the Marin County Office of Education.
Sep 22, 2025
Fifteen percent of students reported knowing about AI-generated explicit images of a classmate, according to a survey released in September by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a center-left think tank. Students also reported that girls were much more likely to be depicted in explicit deepfakes.
Sep 22, 2025
Fresno Unified still plans to launch a highly anticipated aviation academy where high-school students can obtain a private pilot’s license, though it won’t be opening this school year as district officials had hoped.
Sep 22, 2025
Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District Superintendent Ron McCowan will retire Jan. 1 after 34 years in education. McCowan said he didn’t expect to be asked about his health when he announced his retirement at a staff meeting on Tuesday.
Sep 22, 2025
Many parents worry about “senioritis” causing their teenagers to cut class. But the students who miss the most days of school in California are kindergartners, according to a report released Monday.
Sep 22, 2025
Every school day, a crossing guard’s raised stop sign or whistle can mean the difference between order and chaos on busy streets. Without them, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians must rely on their own judgment to decide when to stop or go.
Sep 22, 2025
There’s more to being a diligent school board member than attending a couple of meetings a month. Those meetings require preparation, research and one-on-one conversations with school leadership.
Sep 22, 2025
In response to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids that have roiled Southern California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a package of bills aimed at protecting immigrants in schools, hospitals and other areas targeted by federal agents.
Sep 19, 2025
For decades, parents and advocates for people with disabilities have said the system makes it difficult for them to win against school districts, because the process is often time-consuming, confusing, and, if a family hires a lawyer, expensive. Now they say families could soon face even bigger hurdles.
Sep 19, 2025
Orange County school districts are scrambling to update their policies and procedures in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which requires schools to notify parents and allow students to opt out of certain lessons that conflict with their family’s sincerely held religious beliefs.
Sep 18, 2025
The Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District announced on Wednesday that it voted unanimously to renew Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s contract for another four years.
Sep 18, 2025
A San Jacinto schools employee was placed on leave after posting comments on social media after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Sep 18, 2025
After a months-long search to fill the district’s top leadership role, Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified’s new superintendent, Kym LeBlanc-Esparza, will come aboard next month.
Sep 18, 2025
With a state mandate looming, the Los Angeles Unified School District this week joined other districts in preparing to introduce a semester of personal finance by the Legislature’s 2027-28 deadline.
Sep 18, 2025
Placer Union High School District entered a contract with a conservative nonprofit law firm to weigh in on two upcoming U.S. Supreme Court cases centered around banning transgender girls and women from participating in school sports.
Sep 18, 2025
This fall, every high school in California was supposed to offer ethnic studies — a one-semester class focused on the struggles and triumphs of marginalized communities.
Sep 18, 2025
The Los Angeles Board of Education agreed Wednesday in a 7-0 vote to retain L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho for another four years with the details of his contract still under negotiation.
Sep 18, 2025
Lawmakers unanimously passed a bill last week aimed at eliminating antisemitism in California classrooms, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely to anger some of his strongest supporters no matter which way he lands on the measure.
Sep 18, 2025
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s shooting death, some local educators are facing backlash and job loss for comments they’ve made on social media or in their classrooms after students recorded them and posted the videos.
Sep 17, 2025
The Redlands Unified School District has settled for $1.4 million a lawsuit with the first alleged victim of former high school teacher Laura Whitehurst, who sparked a sex abuse scandal after having a child with one of her students.
Sep 17, 2025
Fresno Unified is no longer offering remote learning to kindergarten students starting this school year, district officials confirmed to The Bee.
Sep 17, 2025
San Juan Unified School District may have violated the Brown Act when investigating and reprimanding an elected board member.
Sep 17, 2025
If signed, AB 1454 moves the state one step closer to implementing evidence-based reading instruction in California classrooms — a decades-long, highly contentious state debate.
Sep 17, 2025
Partisan politics, shifting school policies, changing technology and uncertain school funding are making being a school board member more difficult than ever.
Sep 17, 2025
School district officials are investigating after a Villa Park High teacher allegedly removed and threw away a student memorial to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk from the front of the Orange County campus.
Sep 16, 2025
Erick Whiteside, who worked as a campus security monitor and sports coach at the charter school in Stockton from 2021 until his arrest in 2023, pleaded no contest to three counts.
Sep 16, 2025
The passage capped weeks of stalemate between SB 414, supported by charter advocates, and a rival measure, Assembly Bill 84 by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, and backed by the unions for teachers and other school employees.
Sep 16, 2025
According to Julianne Reynoso, assistant superintendent of student wellness and support services, the overall attendance rate to start this school year was 96.03% compared to 96.21% for the same time last year.
Sep 16, 2025
There are now morning and afternoon crossing guards at all but two San Francisco public schools, according to officials. That’s down from 21 schools at the start of the 2025-26 academic year last month, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said Monday.
Sep 16, 2025
Five women who said they were sexually assaulted by their high school teacher in the 1980s won a combined $13.6-million judgment Monday after a jury concluded that the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District failed to prevent the abuse.
Sep 16, 2025
Nearly three-quarters of California public high school seniors applied for federal financial aid this year, soaring past last year’s figures by 11% and giving further indication that California’s efforts to get more students to apply for federal grants are paying off.
Sep 16, 2025
At midnight Friday — the final day of the legislative session — California lawmakers hadn’t acted on either of two competing bills to curb charter school fraud, which has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade.
Sep 15, 2025
Thompson Middle School, 24040 Hayes Ave., and nearby Murrieta Canyon Academy will be closed, and no school or district services will be available, the district said in a message to families.
Sep 15, 2025
The project, which is partially funded by the Community Schools Grant, came about after upgrades to Hamilton Elementary’s fields left extra space on the south side of the campus.
Sep 15, 2025
Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat.
Sep 15, 2025
After hearing impassioned pleas from teachers, parents and other community members at Thursday night’s meeting, most of the members of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees said they now do not support a tentative plan to close Prestwood Elementary School at the end of the 2025-26 school year.
Sep 15, 2025
After five years of planning and two contentious bond campaigns, the Tamalpais Union High School District will break ground on its first major project from a $289 million Measure B bond approved by voters last fall.
Sep 15, 2025
Parents in the Mill Valley School District reacted with anger, disgust and disbelief this week to a draft environmental impact report that listed two “viable” site alternatives for a new middle school.
Sep 15, 2025
The Wellness Hub is among the mental health programs at Marin County schools that are affected by the U.S. Department of Education’s cancellation of $14.5 million in federal grants this year.
Sep 15, 2025
A Sept. 2 letter to San Juan Unified School District Trustee Nick Bloise shows that the board member engaged in “inappropriate and excessive” personal disclosures during school site visits, including references to past romantic relationships, parenting aspirations and personal identity, which made school staff uncomfortable.
Sep 15, 2025
Nearly a third of the juniors in the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District felt “so sad or hopeless” last year that it hindered their normal activities. Fourteen percent said they had seriously considered suicide.
Sep 15, 2025
A bill to reduce antisemitism in California’s classrooms by creating a new, statewide Office of Civil Rights is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk after a 35-0 vote by the state Senate late Friday, the last day of the legislative session.
Sep 15, 2025
One bill aims to raise lagging reading skills among California children by mandating how schools teach this critical subject. Another seeks to overhaul cafeteria meals by eliminating highly processed foods. A third aims to protect students from being derailed by discrimination.
Sep 15, 2025
Lawmakers waited until the final hours of the final day of the legislative session to resolve two of the most contentious TK-12 education issues: confronting rising antisemitism in schools and clamping down on charter school fraud.
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.