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FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.
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.
Sep 12, 2025
The data did not include a state-by-state breakdown, but California is expected to release its own standardized testing data next month.
Sep 12, 2025
A school counselor was ultimately charged with molesting 12 students in Santa Paula yet remained free for six years after officials took him off the job and as he went on to work at other campuses outside the city with no conviction on his record and his counseling credential still in effect.
Sep 12, 2025
Students at the Long Beach Unified School District will no longer be allowed to use their phones during school starting next year, when new limitations on device usage are scheduled to go into effect.
Sep 12, 2025
The Pomona Unified School District this week announced a pair of settlements in the final two of a series of lawsuits alleging inappropriate conduct by former coaches against eight women while they were students at Pomona High School in the 1990s.
Sep 12, 2025
Fresno Unified in recent days has quietly renamed its diversity, equity and inclusion department — though the district’s leaders say it wasn’t in response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on DEI efforts.
Sep 12, 2025
Amid growing action nationwide to combat antisemitism in places of education, a bill that seeks to address the issue in California’s TK–12 schools is swiftly working through the state Legislature.
Sep 12, 2025
It’s been six years since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 218, dramatically expanding the time people have to file lawsuits alleging they were sexually abused as children. Since then, school districts and other public entities have spent billions defending against the rush of lawsuits the law made possible.
Sep 12, 2025
The Pomona Unified School District this week announced a pair of settlements in the final two of a series of lawsuits alleging inappropriate conduct by former coaches against eight women while they were students at Pomona High School in the 1990s.
Sep 12, 2025
They are not dead — yet – but time has all but run out. That’s about as optimistic as it gets for Assembly Bill 84 and Senate Bill 414, two competing and contentious bills aimed at stopping the kind of charter school fraud that has already siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from California’s public education system.
Sep 11, 2025
San Juan Unified School District Trustee Nick Bloise was formally reprimanded by the board in relation to his behavior during a school site visit.
Sep 11, 2025
Three female student athletes sued their Southern California school district and state Department of Education, claiming they suffered sex discrimination under Title IX and civil rights violations when the defendants allowed a transgender athlete to compete on their high school track and volleyball teams.
Sep 11, 2025
California legislation that would double the number of days a substitute can teach a single class could help school districts keep vacant teaching positions filled, but opponents fear it could hurt students academically.
Sep 10, 2025
Pasadena Unified School District’s Saman Bravo-Karimi intends to go into Thursday’s special school board meeting with a message that has echoed through this year. The district needs to act to improve its financial picture, in the wake of the Eaton fire and enrollment declines, and ahead of a murky state and national economic outlook.
Sep 10, 2025
Labor unions representing millions of educators and school employees are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its immigration crackdown, saying arrests near school campuses are terrorizing children and their teachers, leading some students to drop out.
Sep 10, 2025
A lawsuit against Fresno Unified that accused the district of excluding students from initiatives aiming to improve African American student achievement was recently dismissed.
Sep 10, 2025
By allowing a transgender athlete to compete in girls sports, the Jurupa Unified School District is violating students’ rights, alleges a lawsuit that accuses the athlete of sexually harassing girls and having an unfair competitive advantage.
Sep 10, 2025
A series of federal actions aimed at pressuring states to allow parents to opt out of school vaccine mandates for religious or personal reasons threatens to undermine California’s ironclad ban on such exemptions.
Sep 10, 2025
Nearly seven years after Paradise was ravaged by wildfire, the foothill town smells like pine trees again. New homes are sprouting up on once-scorched lots. Construction trucks rumble through neighborhoods. An ice cream shop recently opened around the corner from the newly rebuilt high school.
Sep 09, 2025
Construction on the 6,500-square-foot facility began in September 2024 and took less than a year to complete.
Sep 09, 2025
A Sacramento-area school district board member claims a homeowner’s exemption on a home outside of his trustee area, according to documents obtained by the Sacramento Bee.
Sep 09, 2025
Eighth grade students’ science test scores have fallen to the level they were in 2009, the first year the national test was given.
Sep 08, 2025
A tuberculosis scare at a Santa Paula elementary school has not brought any additional cases of the disease, indicating there was likely no transmission at the school, Ventura County public health officials said.
Sep 08, 2025
On Wednesday, a defiant Serrano couched her removal in terms of being targeted for asking questions and being a “whistleblower.” “That’s all I’ve been doing, is trying to bring truth to light,” she said.
Sep 08, 2025
After a year of studying in portable classrooms scattered across campus, students at Calistoga Junior/Senior High returned this fall to a brand-new $16 million STEM building — 10 classrooms wrapped around a shared lab workspace, two outdoor learning areas and a central courtyard.
Sep 08, 2025
The new standoff pits a family in need of specialized medical care for their daughter against a small public district familiar with their situation for years, but contending now it is not equipped to handle that level of care as she moves up in grade level.
Sep 08, 2025
A four-year stalemate between the builder of Windsor’s largest proposed housing development and the Windsor Unified School District has finally come to an end, with Redwood Equities agreeing to give the district $3.75 million toward purchasing land for a new school site.
Sep 08, 2025
“Children of school age are at the most vulnerable and impressionable period of their lives and it is wholly reasonable that the safeguards to the integrity and sanctity of their bodies should be, at this tender age, at least equal to that afforded to other citizens,” California Education Code says.
Sep 08, 2025
The head of the foundation said a number of music families are not able to buy an instrument or pay the average $500 rent to have a second flute or trumpet at home to practice. That meant many kids have had to check out their instruments overnight and bring them back the next day for class.
Sep 08, 2025
With pompadoured hair accented by a sparkly rose, a floral short-sleeved blouse and high-waisted and wide-legged burgundy slacks held up by black suspenders, Vanesa Estrella looked like a model for her family’s store, El Pachuco Zoot Suits in Fullerton.
Sep 08, 2025
As students return to the classroom and begin a new school year, school leaders throughout the state are battling a new challenge — how to protect students and families from increasing immigration enforcement activity under the Trump administration.
Sep 08, 2025
Schools are still required under federal and state law to help students who don’t speak English to both learn the language and understand the content of their classes.
Sep 08, 2025
A new bill, which is poised to pass the Legislature in the coming days, would give local and state officials more tools to identify and combat sexual abuse, and educate students to better identify the most common signs of grooming behavior.
Sep 05, 2025
Although our district continues to perform at a high level, our funding is approximately $2,700 per student below the California state average,” said Rachel Litwack, president of the board of trustees.
Sep 05, 2025
By fall 2024, Fresno Unified School District student attendance had finally nearly recovered from the heightened absenteeism initiated by pandemic-related school closures, said Carlos Castillo, the district superintendent.
Sep 05, 2025
A decade ago, California schools introduced a new K-12 science curriculum that was hands-on, interactive and designed to prepare students for the challenges of the 21st century.
Sep 05, 2025
Just before the pandemic struck, girls had overtaken boys’ scores in math and finally closed the long-standing gender gap in a subject that is a gateway to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Sep 05, 2025
As the new academic year begins, schools throughout California are grappling with how to carry out a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing parents to withdraw their child from classroom lessons on LGBTQ+ issues and other subjects that conflict with their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Sep 04, 2025
According to the district, the two site options were selected because the estimated base cost for each is $95 million. In addition to cost, other options were ruled out due to lack of space or other issues.
Sep 04, 2025
A group of families reached a settlement with the Los Angeles Unified School District as part of a class action lawsuit that claims the district’s distance learning practices during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic were inadequate and discriminated against Black and Latino students, as well as those from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
Sep 04, 2025
A hard-fought lawsuit to bring more live teaching and better technology to the Los Angeles school system at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is ending — five years later — with an agreement to provide tutoring and other supports to an estimated 100,000 students.
Sep 04, 2025
Former Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond took the helm of Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in June and immediately asked its school board to step down.
Sep 03, 2025
Pope Valley Elementary — the tiniest school district in Napa County — opened for the new academic year last month with just 30 students, a 35% drop from last fall, and an entirely new team of teachers.
Sep 03, 2025
The Prestwood Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization is collaborating with a group of parents to oppose the Sonoma Valley Unified School District’s Board of Trustees’ tentative plan to close the school at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.
Sep 03, 2025
Last year, SLO County, Monterey County and Santa Barbara County each landed among the five counties with the highest percentages of enrolled homeless students, according to data reporting from education news outlet EdSource.
Sep 03, 2025
Despite a massive budget shortfall and stringent belt tightening, San Francisco city officials have pushed hiring crossing guards to the top of their priority after parents complained about the absence of many stop sign-wielding workers at dangerous intersections this school year.
Sep 03, 2025
Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools opened in Sacramento in 2014 with high ideals — to help adult students, many formerly incarcerated or new immigrants, to earn a diploma, improve English language skills, or learn a trade.
Sep 03, 2025
California lawmakers have passed a bill requiring schools to alert families and teachers when immigration enforcement authorities are on campuses as the Trump administration continues its aggressive mass deportation campaign.
Sep 02, 2025
Passed by Lodi voters in 2016, the $281 million in Measure U funds repair and reconstruction projects at the district’s various buildings. Over the last decade, the district has undertaken parking lot improvements, classroom reconstruction, and replacing portable classrooms older than 30 years.
Sep 02, 2025
Some Ventura County schools are picking up a new job as classes get back in session this fall: medical billing. Roughly half of the county's K-12 public school districts will get the ability to charge students' insurance providers for the mental health care services schools offer on campus.
Sep 02, 2025
The Board of Education voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of a three-year, $140,718 contract with Oakland-based insurance firm Keenan & Associates to revamp security and emergency operations training and equipment throughout the district’s schools, offices and classrooms.
Sep 02, 2025
Students in Fresno Unified went back to school earlier this month amid concerns that fears of mass deportations would keep several pupils of immigrant families from attending class.
Sep 02, 2025
Woods announced his retirement, effective Dec. 31, to the school board during closed session Tuesday, Aug. 26, according to a Wednesday, Aug. 27, email to Temecula Valley Unified School District employees sent by the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent Lena Anicobar.
Sep 02, 2025
Citing safety concerns, the superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District froze a plan Thursday to fly the Israeli flag at school campuses for one month every year.
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.
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.