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Aug 29, 2025
The Fresno Unified School District has implemented new transportation technology. The goal is to give parents peace of mind. This school year, FUSD is using new technology called Zum to track its buses.
Aug 29, 2025
San Luis Obispo County has one of the highest rates of student homelessness in California, and to help those kids, local school districts have benefited from transportation assistance, hotel vouchers and district-appointed homelessness liaisons tasked with connecting unhoused families with community resources.
Aug 29, 2025
More 4-year-olds across California are entering transitional kindergarten this year — curious and eager to play and learn. But some aren’t fully potty-trained, posing an unexpected challenge for schools.
Aug 29, 2025
The Fresno Unified school board on Wednesday hired a new chief spokesperson as it seeks to move forward from an artificial intelligence controversy that led to the departure of the district’s former spokesperson.
Aug 29, 2025
The superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District overruled a plan approved by the Board of Education to display Israeli flags on all campuses during Jewish American Heritage Month, citing concerns about student safety.
Aug 28, 2025
A yearlong dispute stemming from the California Public Employment Relations Board ruling to dissolve Clovis Unified’s union-like group, the Faculty Senate, came to a conclusion last week. But teachers’ efforts to unionize continue, and one group says its close to earning formal recognition.
Aug 28, 2025
When Zulya Nuñez moved from teaching in preschool to a transitional kindergarten classroom, she was shocked at the differences. “It was a lot less play, a lot more pens to paperwork,” Nuñez said.
Aug 28, 2025
A steep drop in Los Angeles Unified student enrollment — 27% over about 10 years and 44% over about 20 — has not been matched by a proportionate drop in the number of campuses or employees, one of several markers indicating difficult decisions ahead for the nation’s second-largest school system, a report released Thursday shows.
Aug 27, 2025
For nearly two dozen years, many locals have tuned in to “Do the Math,” a standards-based mathematics TV show and free tutoring program produced by Kern Education Television Network, operated by the Kern County Superintendent of Schools.
Aug 27, 2025
California is home of some of the nation’s top high schools, according to a new ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
Aug 27, 2025
Temecula school board member Jen Wiersma is fighting back against what she calls the “botched investigation” into her allegation that board colleague Steven Schwartz sexually harassed her.
Aug 27, 2025
When Krystyna Kalishevskyi emigrated from Ukraine with her family last year, she had experienced more trauma and fear than a 4-year-old can cope with.
Aug 27, 2025
The number of students enrolled in TK has grown each year, but it is still far less than the number of eligible 4-year-olds.
Aug 27, 2025
The San Francisco school board Tuesday unanimously rejected a parent-led effort to open a mandarin immersion charter school in the city, angering families tired of waiting for the district to meet the demand for Chinese language programs.
Aug 27, 2025
The Beverly Hills Unified School District’s Board of Education approved a proposal Tuesday night to display the Israeli flag on all campuses and district facilities in recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month in May.
Aug 26, 2025
Facing an approximate budget shortfall of $30 million this year, Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Elizabeth Blanco provided the public with a timeline of how the district’s fiscal stabilization plan will unfold.
Aug 26, 2025
District officials say the $6 million middle school structure “preserves surrounding green space” at Cherry Valley Park.
Aug 26, 2025
A campaign to spur San Francisco students to opt out of taking ethnic studies in the ninth grade this year seems to have fizzled, with just 43 of the 3,785 current freshmen requesting a transfer out of the class, the Chronicle has learned.
Aug 26, 2025
Five years after the start of the pandemic, one of the most surprising ways that school has profoundly, and perhaps permanently, changed is that students aren’t showing up.
Aug 26, 2025
California’s most vulnerable students are still suspended at disproportionately high rates despite efforts to address racial disparities in school discipline policies.
Aug 26, 2025
Adrian got off to a rocky start in fourth grade last year, missing school frequently, setting him down a path that, research suggests, would lead to academic struggles — and, in the long term, a less successful career and possibly worse health.
Aug 25, 2025
The Novato Unified School District is advancing a plan to create workforce housing. The board of trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow the district’s workforce housing team to pursue real estate entitlements for two surplus properties identified as potential housing sites.
Aug 25, 2025
The school year has started, but a controversial proposal to reform how San Francisco students are graded remains on pause.
Aug 25, 2025
They're children who came into a world full of masked adults dousing themselves in hand sanitizer. Many spent the first year of their lives either in isolation in lockdowns or with only a handful of trusted people in their bubbles. And the long-term impact on these "COVID kindergartners" remains unclear.
Aug 25, 2025
The Willow Creek restoration plan was included in a public fact sheet leading to voter approval of the $41.6 million Measure P bond in 2020, Sobieski said. Most of the bond money is going to build a new elementary school in Sausalito, but the creek plan was still envisioned as part of the campus makeover, he said.
Aug 25, 2025
Forest Hill faculty, staff and parents got to check out the new net-zero energy building at a ribbon cutting on Friday, Aug. 22. It’s the fifth “grid neutral” building that has been built in the Campbell Union School District since 2013.
Aug 25, 2025
A week into the new school year, its first with Superintendent Fabiola Bagula at the helm, San Diego Unified School District leaders hashed out how they plan to make, and measure, progress toward what they’re calling their goals and guardrails in the coming years.
Aug 25, 2025
Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, pled guilty in February to several counts of child sexual abuse in connection with his work running Del Paso Heights Elementary School’s audio-visual club.
Aug 25, 2025
Twin Rivers Unified School District reached a $6 million lawsuit settlement involving a former Del Paso Heights Elementary School teacher who was convicted of several counts of child sexual abuse earlier this year.
Aug 25, 2025
Parents of Natomas Unified School District elementary students learned a couple weeks before returning to school of a policy change: guardians could no longer accompany their child on campus during drop-off and pick-up and would instead have to wait outside the school gate.
Aug 25, 2025
Two months after the U.S. Supreme Court granted public school parents the right to withdraw their children from materials and discussions on LGBTQ+ issues and other subjects that conflict with their “sincerely held religious beliefs,” conservative leaders in California are predicting schools will be swamped with opt-out demands.
Aug 22, 2025
The two unions involved are the San Rafael Teachers Association, which covers elementary and middle school teachers, counselors, nurses and other certificated employees, and the California School Employee Association, which covers classified workers.
Aug 22, 2025
Students at Riverside’s Poly High School rallied Wednesday, Aug. 20, to protest a Riverside school district social media post they say allowed the bullying of a transgender athlete who was criticized by President Donald Trump and others at a state track meet.
Aug 22, 2025
The state has sued the U.S. Department of Education for cutting funding to mental health grants at elementary and high schools, including those at Conejo Valley Unified School District.
Aug 22, 2025
The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees has singled out Prestwood Elementary School for possible closure at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
Aug 22, 2025
San Francisco Unified School District elementary- and middle-school students began the school year with a new math curriculum, and officials touting the pilot program’s successes say the districtwide rollout marks “a major step” toward reaching the district’s ambitious math literacy goals.
Aug 22, 2025
A week into the new school year, its first with Superintendent Fabiola Bagula at the helm, San Diego Unified School District leaders hashed out how they plan to make, and measure, progress toward what they’re calling their goals and guardrails in the coming years.
Aug 22, 2025
A bill that would make California the first in the nation to phase out “particularly harmful” ultra-processed foods from the 1 billion school meals served in the state each year faces a key Senate committee hearing next week.
Aug 22, 2025
The Trump administration has canceled a sexual education grant to California worth about $12.3 million on the grounds that it included “radical gender ideology” after state officials refused to revise the materials.
Aug 21, 2025
Howell Mountain Elementary in Napa County will not move forward with a proposal to let parents pull their children from LGBTQ+-inclusive lessons, after public opposition at this week’s board meeting.
Aug 21, 2025
After spending $40,000, cutting down 14 trees and signing three contracts, St. Helena Unified School District’s long-planned solar project has collapsed under shifting federal policies, investor jitters and unexpected construction costs.
Aug 21, 2025
With California struggling to lower student absences since the pandemic, state educational leaders have pledged to reduce chronic absenteeism by 50% over the next five years.
Aug 21, 2025
District staff presented a report on trends, challenges and strategic actions in special education to the board on Tuesday and said that students in that demographic account for 18.2% of the overall population.
Aug 21, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said any California school district that does not adhere to his administration's transgender policies will not receive federal funding, but gave no other details.
Aug 21, 2025
Shortly before classes began Tuesday morning at Lincoln High School, Dawn Miller hopped into the passenger seat of a pickup truck, two-way radio in hand.
Aug 21, 2025
Many supporters and advocates of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Black Student Achievement Plan (BSAP) are beginning the school year with renewed hope after the school board voted to boost the program’s 2025-26 funding with an additional $25 million.
Aug 20, 2025
Petaluma City Schools trustees plan to ask virtually all property owners within district borders – more than 20,000 parcels in all – for $129 apiece to address “critical funding challenges” that have led droves of teachers to flee the district for higher-paying jobs in other school systems.
Aug 20, 2025
Santa Rosa City Schools officials last week made that 2026-27 move official at the first board meeting of the new school year, where board members approved just over $100,000 to start renovation projects at the downtown former middle school campus.
Aug 20, 2025
The agency announced in March that the project had a $17.4 million budget shortfall. In an attempt to close the gap, it created a plan to have Marin County and school districts guarantee the rental income of the Oak Hill apartments in order to lower the interest rates on the bonds.
Aug 20, 2025
As San Francisco school officials kicked off the first day of school Monday amid a cacophony of welcome-back cheers, a few anxious sobs and excited shrieks, they were hoping for peace and quiet over the next nine months.
Aug 20, 2025
Modesto City Schools has introduced guidelines for integrating artificial intelligence in classrooms, emphasizing accuracy, ethics and data privacy.
Aug 20, 2025
Legislators returned to the State House this week for the four-week dash to decide which bills that haven’t already been passed, killed or held back should be sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.
Aug 20, 2025
A Reseda high school student who was arrested by immigration agents Aug. 8 and is being held in a detention facility told a former teacher that he overheard the masked men who seized him brag among themselves that they would receive $1,500 for his arrest, the instructor said.
Aug 19, 2025
The school year is officially underway for Fresno Unified students, and Fresno Police officers say they’re ready. It’s a team effort for school resource officers tasked with keeping California’s third-largest school district as safe as it can be.
Aug 19, 2025
The sun shone brightly and spirits were high — at least on the surface — during the first day of classes at San Francisco’s public schools Monday.
Aug 19, 2025
Pasadena Unified School District saw a tumultuous 2024-25 academic year as the Eaton fire burnt down five campuses, spurring several campus consolidations and even relocations for many students and educators.
Aug 18, 2025
Elected officials, Pasadena Unified School District leaders and community members gathered to reaffirm support for immigrant students and parents on the steps of Pasadena City Hall on Sunday, Aug. 17, one day before the first day of school for the district’s nearly 14,000 students.
Aug 18, 2025
Natalia Olivera Gomez and Jonathan Carrillo Poot were sworn in as student Santa Rosa City Schools board members Wednesday night. This is the first year where the board will have more than one student trustee. Student trustees present the needs, viewpoints and ideas of all district students to the board.
Aug 18, 2025
Applications for the Sonoma Valley Unified School District’s superintendent position could be accepted as early as the first week of September, with the school board open to hiring a well-qualified candidate whenever one emerges.
Aug 18, 2025
As California wrestles with a statewide literacy crisis, a bill poised to hit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk could fundamentally change the way students learn to read in California. The bill, AB 1454, would move the state one step closer to implementing evidence-based reading instruction in California classrooms, which has been hotly debated for decades.
Aug 18, 2025
The estimated cost of the plan, which would require addressing soil issues at the former landfill, has risen from $130 million to $156 million, the district said this week. The price is beyond the scope of the district’s Measure G bond capacity, officials said at the district board meeting Thursday.
Aug 18, 2025
School district officials across Orange County have been preparing for a scenario they haven’t really had to deal with before: what to do if federal immigration enforcement agents show up to one of their schools?
Aug 18, 2025
Clovis Unified is at risk of losing an annual state grant of $12.6 million as the district struggles to meet a requirement to maintain a smaller class size for students in early grade levels.
Aug 18, 2025
The Murrieta school board has turned down an approximately $800,000 state grant, which would have laid the groundwork for additional mental health services for students.
Aug 18, 2025
Fifteen years after a handful of school districts opened the first TK classrooms, California now has the largest — and fastest growing — early education program in the country.
Aug 18, 2025
San Francisco principal Jeremy Hilinski has seen a lot of well-meaning outsiders try to fix struggling schools over the past two decades, shoving money and people at intractable problems with little to show for it. It’s made him a bit cynical.
Aug 18, 2025
A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the Oakland Unified School District to allow a Christian ministry to use public school buildings for after-school meetings.
Aug 18, 2025
A parent waiting nearby to pick up his child from Linda Vista Elementary School was arrested Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, school officials said.
Aug 18, 2025
Public officials say Assembly Bill 218 is sowing a financial crisis for school districts, county governments and other public agencies who are now facing a wave of claims alleging sexual assault by their employees over the past several decades.
Aug 15, 2025
The case of the highly contagious, airborne disease involves McKevett Elementary Academy of Visual and Performing Arts, Ventura County public health officials said Aug. 14.
Aug 15, 2025
The board OK’d an updated safe haven policy, but it was not enough for immigrant parents who sought stronger protections.
Aug 15, 2025
About 28,000 square feet of vacant land in Larkspur will be transformed into gardens through a $300,000 state grant awarded to a second-grade teacher. The grant for Dana Swisher, an elementary school teacher in the Larkspur-Corte Madera School District, was announced Thursday at Hall Middle School.
Aug 15, 2025
An Elk Grove high school student tested positive for active tuberculosis, according to a Thursday news release from Sacramento County health officials and Elk Grove Unified School District.
Aug 15, 2025
A proposed Mandarin immersion K-8 charter school was dealt a major blow this week after San Francisco Unified School District staff criticized the parent-led plan and recommended the school board reject it.
Aug 15, 2025
The wildfires in early January disrupted education for more than 725,000 students and destroyed or damaged at least a dozen schools. Several school districts, including Alhambra Unified, Pasadena Unified, San Marino Unified and Glendale Unified, closed within the first few days of the fires.
Aug 15, 2025
Four days after a 15-year-old with a disability was mistakenly detained and handcuffed by immigration agents outside of Arleta High School, the first day of the new school year in the Los Angeles Unified School District seemed normal.
Aug 15, 2025
The first day of school in Los Angeles unfolded as no other — with safety zones set up around campuses to protect students and their immigrant families from agents of the federal government.
Aug 14, 2025
Families accuse the city’s school district of downplaying harassment, failing to use a $10,000 anti-racism donation and keeping the community in the dark.
Aug 14, 2025
A high school assistant basketball coach in Orange County was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 13 on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a minor, authorities said.
Aug 14, 2025
But the district endured a wave of on-campus violence in 2023 and 2024, including the stabbing death of a student in March 2023. In December 2023, by a 4-2 vote, the board approved a three-year pilot campus officer program.
Aug 14, 2025
Back-to-school preparations for the school year that began Thursday in Los Angeles were like no other — and more ominous. One teacher training explained how to recognize various federal officers who handle immigration arrests or “kidnappings.”
Aug 14, 2025
Twin Rivers Unified School District reached a $6 million lawsuit settlement involving a former Del Paso Heights Elementary School teacher who was convicted of several counts of child sexual abuse earlier this year.
Aug 14, 2025
A state law that made it easier to sue over child sexual assault is driving up litigation costs so dramatically that schools and local governments have been forced to seek insurance coverage overseas.
Aug 14, 2025
Days before the start of classes, San Francisco school leaders reminded teachers that they can’t express political opinions during the school day, including in what they say, wear or what they put on their walls.
Aug 14, 2025
It is hard to imagine a more “homegrown” school superintendent than Cheryl Cotton, who in June assumed the top post in the West Contra Costa Unified School District on the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay.
Aug 13, 2025
Four schools in San Luis Obispo County were recently recognized for excellence in their social emotional learning practices.
Aug 13, 2025
A bill that would have funded transitional kindergarten in the San Luis Coastal school district was struck down by California legislators in May.
Aug 13, 2025
The Butte County Office of Education announced Tuesday it rescinded layoff notifications to about 400 employees who were included in a workforce reduction in July because of withheld federal education funding.
Aug 13, 2025
Los Angeles Unified officials said a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was briefly detained at gunpoint near Arleta High School in a case of mistaken identity — an account federal immigration authorities disputed Tuesday, saying agents were targeting a man with a criminal record in the area.
Aug 13, 2025
San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su on Tuesday helped announce the launch a districtwide initiative to get more kids to regularly show up for classes — and also addressed renewed questions over whether teachers will be accurately and efficiently paid for their time inside classrooms.
Aug 13, 2025
Assistant Superintendent Jaron Fried is expected to take over the reins as the top administrator in the Anaheim Union High School District at the end of year when long-time superintendent Michael Matsuda retires.
Aug 13, 2025
Two former Redlands Unified students have filed separate lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused by an athletic trainer and a cross-country coach at different high schools.
Aug 13, 2025
Los Angeles public schools are opening Thursday for the new academic year confronting an intense and historically unique moment: They will be operating in opposition to the federal government’s immigration raids and have set in motion aggressive moves to protect children and their immigrant parents.
Aug 12, 2025
The nation’s second-largest school district is “deploying resources at a level never before seen in our district” as schools prepare to open Thursday, with extra personnel and safety measures planned for campuses in areas that have seen heightened immigration enforcement, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho said Monday, Aug. 11.
Aug 12, 2025
Proposed changes to policies on student absences and transitional kindergarten, as well as LCAP updates are on the agenda when the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees meets at Sonoma City Chambers on Thursday, Aug. 14.
Aug 12, 2025
Next week, 1,100 Clovis students in seventh through ninth grade will begin their school year at the brand-new Terry P. Bradley Educational Center, the most expensive school campus built in the Central Valley with a price tag of more than $600 million.
Aug 12, 2025
For the first time in nearly six decades, a school bell rang in Riverside’s Casa Blanca neighborhood. Casa Blanca Elementary School opened Monday, Aug. 11, to the delight of the area’s mostly Latino residents who’ve long waited for this day.
Aug 12, 2025
The San Francisco school district’s new payroll system, which replaced a $34 million version that never worked, has left at least a hundred teachers frustrated with errors in their paychecks over the past months and prompted the teachers union Monday to file a state labor complaint.
Aug 12, 2025
Immigration agents handcuffed and drew guns on a 15-year-old San Fernando High School student Monday morning after pulling him from his family’s vehicle, according to Los Angeles Unified School District officials.
Aug 12, 2025
From slowing down in school zones to yielding to pedestrians, the California Vehicle Code outlines clear rules every driver must follow. But what about stopping for a school bus with flashing lights?
Aug 11, 2025
This year is going to look different for students and staff at Kneeland School. The rural Tk-8 school is implementing a first-in-the-county modified schedule, shortening its summer break in an effort to stave off learning loss and prevent end-of-year fatigue.
Aug 11, 2025
Thousands of Marin County students returning to campuses this fall will face tighter cellphone rules.
Aug 11, 2025
With voters’ passage of Measure H last November, Fresno Unified secured its largest-ever school bond of $500 million. How is the district spending that windfall?
Aug 11, 2025
It’s early August, summer’s exact midpoint, which used to mean a lot more days of popsicles, lazing in the sun and maybe mid-week jaunts to water parks. Not anymore.
Aug 11, 2025
A school board meeting in Redlands, California, devolved into name-calling and Nazi comparisons this week amid a heated argument over a board member’s social media activity.
Aug 11, 2025
Fontana schools will begin voluntary, random drug testing of middle and high school athletes — and other students in extracurricular activities — in a program aimed at improving youths’ health.
Aug 11, 2025
As Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged to include $200 million in funding for evidence-based literacy instruction and universal screening mandates go into effect, educators and literacy advocates are hopeful the state has finally turned a page in a decades-long struggle.
Aug 08, 2025
When the initiative is complete, all active campuses, including elementary schools, will have perimeter fencing. Cost estimates range from $500,000 for elementary sites to up to $1.5 million for high schools, Oden said.
Aug 08, 2025
For more than a year, the two agencies have been locked in a legal battle over Mayacamas Countywide Middle School. Napa Valley Unified argues the school siphons limited state funds from traditional campuses.
Aug 08, 2025
A set of phased elementary and middle school closures, six in all, and 150 staff layoffs in June are helping offset nearly half of a $20 million budget deficit in the 2025-26 school year.
Aug 08, 2025
The Los Angeles Unified School District has expanded its fleet of electric school buses to 180 vehicles ahead of the new school year. The second largest school district in the country reports that 67% of its 1,300 school buses rely on non-diesel fuels including propane, natural gas and electricity.
Aug 08, 2025
After a round of back-and-forth between the two entities, St. Hope and its charter authorizer Sacramento City Unified School District will continue negotiating the terms of their five-year operational agreement.
Aug 08, 2025
Cajon Valley Union School District has approved a new sexual health curriculum, months after the state found its old one illegally scrubbed mention of anything LGBTQ+ and then sued to force it to comply with state law.
Aug 07, 2025
Ronald E. McNair High School in Stockton has transitioned to remote learning after a water main break caused flooding over the weekend. Severe flooding damaged the first floor of the school's main building, prompting Lodi Unified School District officials to send students home for safety reasons and begin cleanup and repair efforts.
Aug 07, 2025
The San Francisco Unified School District has finally settled on a temporary ethnic studies curriculum for the 2025-26 school year, a resolution that has left some advocates of the program more satisfied than other critics who originally called for it to be reevaluated.
Aug 07, 2025
Math will look and feel a lot different in San Francisco schools this year and that seems evident by the picture of the chilled-out chimpanzee on the cover of the new kindergarten textbook, with similar images on subsequent grades.
Aug 07, 2025
The Elk Grove Unified School District—which includes the city of Elk Grove and outer-lying areas—is growing. Long the fifth-largest district in the state, by student enrollment, it’s now the fourth, just ahead of Long Beach Unified and behind Los Angeles’, San Diego’s and Fresno’s districts.
Aug 07, 2025
Residents on Tuesday night, Aug. 5, called on Redlands school board member Candy Olson to resign because they said she liked several Instagram posts that they consider to have anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ+ messages.
Aug 07, 2025
The Santa Ana Unified School District and Orange County School of the Arts announced Wednesday, Aug. 6, they have reached an $8.55 million settlement, officially ending a nearly six-year legal battle over special education funding.
Aug 06, 2025
An audit initially prompted by two Canyon Crest Academy seniors who last year investigated their school’s nonprofit foundation has found a number of instances of financial mismanagement by San Dieguito Union High School District’s school foundations.
Aug 06, 2025
An experienced North County educator recently took the helm of Carlsbad Unified School District with an eye to improving budget-making, facilities and all students’ achievement, with help from the community.
Aug 06, 2025
Funding cuts. Raids near campuses. Exclusion from programs like Head Start and career training. For months, the Trump administration has been chipping away at the rights of students without legal status in public schools.
Aug 06, 2025
As many immigrant parents express fear about sending their children back to school next week, Los Angeles Unified has set a goal of $1 million in donations for a “compassion fund” for families affected by federal immigration raids, Supt. Alberto Carvalho announced Tuesday.
Aug 05, 2025
An electricity outage in San Bernardino County affecting almost 50,000 Southern California Edison customers on Tuesday, Aug. 5, prompted the San Bernardino City Unified School District to cancel classes at 14 campuses and left stoplights dark in some portions of the city.
Aug 05, 2025
Michael Matsuda has long believed in the power of public education. But the long-serving Anaheim Union High School District superintendent also knows, from his own family’s experience, how institutions can fail the marginalized.
Aug 05, 2025
Fresno Unified Superintendent Misty Her has named administrator Carlos Castillo as chief academic officer, among a slew of changes impacting the district’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts ahead of the new school year.
Aug 04, 2025
As summer comes to a close and another school year begins, school districts in the Inland Empire and beyond could face new challenges. Decisions from the Trump administration may affect the funding of federal programs.
Aug 04, 2025
A motion filed Thursday, July 31, by the board seeks relief from a 2016 lower court injunction upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that enjoined the board from permitting or endorsing prayers during meetings.
Aug 04, 2025
Roughly 12.6% of California public school students attend a campus located in high or very high Fire Hazard Severity Zones, an EdSource analysis of data from Cal Fire and the Office of the State Fire Marshal found. Those are often home to dry vegetation, steep slopes and dry, windy weather.
Aug 04, 2025
The December 2023 vote to bring back officers was made with the stipulation that officers would be present at every district high school in each year of the pilot program. That request was made by leaders of the NAACP and other advocacy groups who provided input to the board while a committee worked to rewrite the program.
Aug 04, 2025
In California, families must provide children’s immunization records as proof of vaccination before they can attend public and private schools, child care centers, day cares, nursery schools and developmental centers, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Aug 04, 2025
The district has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for the creek elevation. If more funds are needed, local environmental organizations such as Friends of Willow Creek can step in, said Steve Moore, the group’s leader.
Aug 04, 2025
Nearly $1 billion in federal education funding is being restored to California schools after months of delays under the Trump administration, providing essential support for programs that aid some of the state's most vulnerable students, including English learners and migrant students.
Aug 04, 2025
Fresno Unified’s bid process is under scrutiny after trustees recently awarded bids to repaint two schools to a contractor that a trade union alleges hadn’t paid workers for completed jobs.
Aug 04, 2025
Some Grossmont Union High School District board trustees and administrators are not disclosing their text messages in response to public record requests, despite evidence that they have exchanged many such texts discussing district business with each other.
Aug 04, 2025
The Alum Rock Union School District board of trustees on Thursday voted to fire recently appointed Superintendent German Cerda. The board of trustees said in a statement it has “unilaterally” ended the employment relationship with Cerda effective in 10 days. No other explanation was given.
Aug 04, 2025
Among the many items in the San Francisco school district’s annual budget is a line item for student internships, a popular program for 500 high school students in health, culinary arts, education and other career pathway courses providing real-life experience in companies across the city.
Aug 04, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered statewide agencies to expand access to mental health support, along with educational and workforce opportunities, in response to what experts say is a growing crisis of loneliness and depression among boys and young men.
Aug 04, 2025
The L.A. teachers union and its allies held a rally Saturday calling on the school district to more aggressively fight for immigrant families, including by demanding that the federal government return all detained and deported students to Los Angeles.
Aug 01, 2025
The Petaluma City Schools board of trustees has unanimously approved a policy ensuring that all district campuses – even the high schools – are “phone-free” as of July 2026.
Aug 01, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren, a program created in 1966 to help interest young people in following healthy, active lifestyles.
Aug 01, 2025
Some parents in the Anaheim Union High School District are raising concerns that school board leaders are trying to rush a process to replace the district’s outgoing superintendent during summer break.
Aug 01, 2025
After hearing reports in 2012 that a high school theater arts teacher was sexually abusing students, the San Ramon Valley Unified School District quietly allowed him to resign and promised not to say anything unfavorable about him.
Aug 01, 2025
As they said tearful farewells to their schools and now look to the fall, families affected by the closing, merger or redesign of more than half of the Alum Rock Union School District’s 22 schools struggle to cope with the drastic changes.
Jul 31, 2025
The crisis clouding Sonoma County’s largest school district over the past year was a $20 million structural deficit, leading to the disputed move in February to close two middle schools and two elementary schools this past June.
Jul 31, 2025
Jason Glass, an educator with experience in state and university systems, has been meeting with community members, elected leaders and city officials since joining the Laguna Beach Unified School District this month as its superintendent.
Jul 31, 2025
Roughly 6% of California public school students attend a campus located in high or very high Fire Hazard Severity Zones, an EdSource analysis of data from Cal Fire and the Office of the State Fire Marshal found.
Jul 31, 2025
ABC10's investigation, The Wild West of Education, into Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools is now leading to calls for statewide change from two lawmakers.
Jul 30, 2025
"The problem is that currently, these 18 programs receive $6.5 billion dollars, meaning that the $2 billion that he is allocating in the budget is a cut of over 69 percent."
Jul 30, 2025
Monterey County has one of the largest migrant student populations in the state, with around 10,000 students eligible. The county receives almost $20 million in funding to keep the program running – the Trump administration is proposing eliminating the program.
Jul 30, 2025
Inland Empire students graduate at slightly higher rates than their peers in other parts of California. So why do they lag in college enrollment and graduation?
Jul 29, 2025
In addition to $2 million in budget cuts for the upcoming 2025-26 school year that were approved last spring, the school district’s board of trustees on Tuesday approved another $1 million in reductions for that same school year.
Jul 29, 2025
The Monterey County Office of Education, for example, issued 40 lay-off warnings to staff because it was unsure if it would be able to fund those positions without the federal funding, according to Superintendent of Schools Deneen Guss.
Jul 29, 2025
The Trump administration will release $5.5 billion in federal education funding that was previously withheld from public schools in 33 states, including an estimated $939 million that California schools were relying on for their 2025-26 academic year — including some that were withheld from the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education.
Jul 29, 2025
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement Tuesday that AI “drives personalized learning, sharpens critical thinking and prepares students with problem-solving skills that are vital for tomorrow’s challenges.”
Jul 29, 2025
As board president for the 2025-26 school year, Giannoni said she hopes she and her fellow trustees can continue to support funding core SJCOE programs such as CARE and Discovery ChalleNGe Academy, as well as address issues important to families like attending the school of their choice and appealing interdistrict transfers.
Jul 29, 2025
After withholding billions of dollars from school districts nationwide, the Department of Education (DOE) would be opening the funding floodgates starting this Monday, July 28, the department announced on Friday.
Jul 29, 2025
Back-to-school season is just around the corner in California. And state health officials are reminding families to make sure their children’s vaccinations are up to date before the first day of school.
Jul 28, 2025
IAQ Distribution has settled a civil lawsuit brought by the Stockton Unified School District for $3.75 million, stemming from an air filter deal that an audit report described as potentially fraudulent.
Jul 28, 2025
School meal funding in San Luis Obispo County could be at risk after Congress approved a behemoth reconciliation bill that could yank food benefits away from millions of Americans.
Jul 28, 2025
Assembly Bill 84, authored by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, would increase oversight of charter schools, especially nonclassroom-based programs such as Cabrillo.
Jul 28, 2025
The Galt Police Department on Friday took into custody Carmela Baker, a former treasurer for the Liberty Ranch High School Athletics Booster Club, and charged her with felony embezzlement after an investigation into $200,000 missing from the club.
Jul 28, 2025
During the first two weeks of each school year, Joaquin Delgado said, he shows his Galileo High School ethnic-studies students an image of a student holding a clenched fist in the air, accompanied by the words “Know History, Know Self.”
Jul 28, 2025
The Trump administration will release $5.5 billion in federal education funding that was previously withheld from public schools in 33 states, including an estimated $939 million that California schools were relying on for their 2025-26 academic year.
Jul 28, 2025
California’s five-year-old, multi-billion-dollar Expanded Learning Opportunities Program has allowed school districts and charter schools to offer a vast array of enrichment activities outside the regular school day.
Jul 28, 2025
Fishing. Scuba diving. Engine repair. Modeling. Archery. Aviation. These are just a few of the more than 100 summer camps that the Fresno Unified School District offers its students each week under the umbrellas of adventure, college and career, creative arts, sports and STEM.
Jul 28, 2025
As California intensifies its fight with the Trump Administration, the race for the state’s top schools job is becoming ever more crowded. Today, former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon formally entered the race to succeed Tony Thurmond as State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Jul 25, 2025
Arroyo Grande and Nipomo high schools recently earned recognition for their efforts to prepare students for life after high school.
Jul 25, 2025
Tens of thousands of students returned to school this week in districts across South County, and on Thursday, some of them were welcomed back by state Superintendent Tony Thurmond.
Jul 25, 2025
Each member of the board of directors overseeing Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in Sacramento either resigned or was removed weeks after the release of a report by the California State Auditor that found the school improperly received over $180 million in education funding.
Jul 25, 2025
On a recent morning, nearly 100 children clapped, sang, and danced in a large circle filling the cafeteria at Nystrom Elementary School in Richmond as part of a joyous Harambee celebration, the Swahili word for “all pull together.”
Jul 25, 2025
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board overreached in declaring hundreds of schools off-limits from sharing their facilities with charter schools, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled.
Jul 24, 2025
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board overreached in declaring hundreds of schools off-limits from sharing their facilities with charter schools, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled.
Jul 24, 2025
This fall, California will make transitional kindergarten available for all 4-year-olds. But fewer parents know about the program than they did just a few years ago, according to new surveys conducted by the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.
Jul 24, 2025
When Yvette Medina was growing up in the labor camps of California’s Central Valley, she’d often accompany her father to the bank to cash checks. “He’d tell me, ‘You should be a bank teller. You’re inside all day, out of the sun,’” Medina recalled.
Jul 23, 2025
Between performances from district bands, a cappella groups and dance programs, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho affirmed the district will do anything to protect its students at Tuesday’s Opening of Schools Address, titled “Inspire Greatness.”
Jul 23, 2025
After years of struggling to recover from deep pandemic setbacks, Los Angeles Unified students have achieved a “new high watermark,” with math and English scores rising across all tested grades for the second straight year, surpassing results from before the 2020 campus closures, Supt. Alberto Carvalho said.
Jul 23, 2025
A former Madera School Executive has been indicted for allegedly embezzling money from a program that receives federal funding. According to court documents, 67-year-old Nicholas M. Retana was the founder and executive director of a kindergarten through 8th-grade charter school in Madera County.
Jul 22, 2025
An estimated $6.2 billion in congressionally appropriated funds that should have already been received by the nation's K-12 schools was withheld earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education and is now the subject of a multi-state lawsuit including California.
Jul 22, 2025
Students at Marin high schools will receive expanded training in drug overdose prevention starting this fall under two new programs authorized by the county. The Board of Supervisors authorized a $92,481 contract with the Marin County Office of Education to run a pilot program at public high schools this year.
Jul 22, 2025
On the day immigration agents swooped through MacArthur Park in armored vehicles, wearing tactical gear and riding on horseback, Contreras Learning Center football coach Manuel Guevara said more than 20 of his players skipped summer practice.
Jul 22, 2025
The Trump administration’s unrestrained assault on immigrants has battered California’s economy and driven down attendance at its schools, a pair of recent reports contend.
Jul 22, 2025
California after-school and summer programs will get some of their funding back after the federal government said on Friday that it would restore grants it had previously withheld.
Jul 21, 2025
The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states.
Jul 21, 2025
Simi Valley Unified School Board's president resigned June 16 because of an unintended conflict of interest that school administrators said recently came to light.
Jul 21, 2025
The Chino Valley school district will look to add language into its policies from a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives parents the right to “opt-out” of lessons that interfere with families’ religious beliefs.
Jul 21, 2025
Terry P. Bradley, the beloved Clovis Unified superintendent whose career in the district spanned five decades, died on Thursday. He was 81 years old and had been battling illness, according to district officials.
Jul 21, 2025
The 8-year-old girl is a migrant student whose family moves frequently in search of seasonal work. But for five weeks this summer, she found stability, fun and academic nurturing in a program for children like her that included visits to the L.A. Zoo twice a week.
Jul 21, 2025
The Trump administration will release an estimated $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for schools nationwide, but has warned states that it will rescind funding not spent for “allowable activities.”
Jul 18, 2025
California added 3,000 new classroom teachers and a significant number of new administrators despite declining student enrollment and budget reductions brought on by the end of pandemic funding, according to long-awaited data released by the California Department of Education on Thursday.
Jul 18, 2025
In June, a federal judge granted a temporary injunction, reinstating California’s grants and allowing its AmeriCorps workers to return to their jobs. But many workers who are eligible to return have found other employment.
Jul 18, 2025
In the wake of high-profile fraud cases in which charter schools inappropriately collected hundreds of millions of public dollars, California lawmakers are pushing for reform that would aim to prevent similar theft of taxpayer money.
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.