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Oct 02, 2026

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

Oct 02, 2026

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

Oct 02, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Oct 01, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 30, 2026

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

Sep 29, 2026

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

Sep 29, 2026

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

Sep 29, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 28, 2026

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

Sep 25, 2026

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

Sep 25, 2026

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

Sep 25, 2026

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

Sep 25, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 24, 2026

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

Sep 22, 2026

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

Sep 22, 2026

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

Sep 22, 2026

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

Sep 21, 2026

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

Sep 21, 2026

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

Sep 21, 2026

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

Sep 21, 2026

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

Sep 21, 2026

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

Sep 21, 2026

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

Sep 18, 2026

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

Sep 18, 2026

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

Sep 18, 2026

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

Sep 18, 2026

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

Sep 17, 2026

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

Sep 17, 2026

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

Sep 17, 2026

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

Sep 17, 2026

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

Sep 17, 2026

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

Sep 16, 2026

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

Sep 16, 2026

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

Sep 16, 2026

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

Sep 16, 2026

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

Sep 16, 2026

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

Sep 16, 2026

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

Sep 15, 2026

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

Sep 15, 2026

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

Sep 15, 2026

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

Sep 15, 2026

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

Sep 15, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 14, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 10, 2026

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

Sep 10, 2026

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

Sep 10, 2026

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

Sep 09, 2026

With the first few weeks of school under their belt, Petaluma City Schools district leaders are ready to talk enrollment numbers for the current school year — and they say that overall the district’s schools are seeing steady numbers from last year to the current 2026-27 school year.

Sep 09, 2026

The Rowland Unified School District has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of a minor boy who alleged he was sexually abused by a teacher in 2017-18 when he was 7 and 8 years old and in the second grade.

Sep 09, 2026

“Covina-Valley Unified School District appreciates the help and support of the Covina Police Department in acting quickly and proactively to keep our schools, students, and staff safe,” the district said in a statement.

Sep 09, 2026

Keeping the memory of 9/11 alive — and honoring the lives lost and the sacrifices made — is an important part of many Southern California classrooms this time of year.

Sep 09, 2026

While public school enrollment continues to decline across California, Sanger Unified School District is preparing for continued growth as new housing and development bring more families to southeast Fresno County.

Sep 08, 2026

Parents of elementary school students in San Rafael City Schools will be able to exclude their children from classroom activities they feel violate their religious beliefs, the district superintendent said. That includes, for example, such activities as storybook readings that describe a character who is identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Sep 08, 2026

Scholarship Prep South Bay, a Wilmington charter school, touts a rare benchmark of success. Last year, none of the substantial number of homeless students it educates were chronically absent, school officials said, a goal they hope to maintain as school opens.

Sep 08, 2026

A 2017 felony assault conviction would disqualify a Pajaro Valley Unified School District board candidate from running for office in states such as Illinois or Virginia, unless he had received a pardon or other action by the governor.

Sep 08, 2026

California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.

Sep 08, 2026

Proposition 3 asks California voters whether to make permanent a temporary income tax on the state’s highest earners to help fund education. The tax was first approved by voters in 2012 and extended in 2016. But it is set to expire in 2031.

Sep 08, 2026

Brittney Camacho was in disbelief after she received the call from the Visalia Police Department in Tulare County in September 2025. An officer told her something that her children could not — that they may have been the victim of physical abuse.

Sep 04, 2026

An elementary school in Desert Hot Springs will soon undergo a $105 million transformation that will replace its aging buildings and remake much of its early 1990s campus.

Sep 04, 2026

Mediation to settle a defamation lawsuit against the Fresno Unified School District and Trustee Keshia Thomas was unsuccessful, the plaintiff’s attorney said.

Sep 04, 2026

On the heels of public controversy that threatened some students’ access to field trips, the Foundation for Fresno Unified Students is helping to fund the opportunity for the next year — though Fresno Unified says more tough decisions will come in the near future.

Sep 04, 2026

A former special education teacher with the Woodland Joint Unified School District who was charged with abusing a student accepted a plea agreement Thursday in a Yolo County courtroom.

Sep 04, 2026

A proposed amendment to increase Sacramento City Unified School District trustees’ monthly compensation from $827 to $3,000 will be withdrawn from a policy update and will not advance to a second reading, Trustee Taylor Kayatta said Wednesday.

Sep 03, 2026

The Lodi Unified School District is investigating why several Tokay High School students became ill during a football game last week and why some experienced similar symptoms again during band practice Tuesday.

Sep 03, 2026

The district announced the closure July 27 — three weeks before the first day of school — after investigations identified active water intrusion and mold that required the 512 students and 55 staff to relocate to different district schools while further review is conducted.

Sep 03, 2026

Fletcher was immediately placed on paid administrative leave following the incident. She resigned by Nov. 18, receiving a $40,000 payout as a condition of her resignation agreement.

Sep 03, 2026

A bill to clarify how schools should spend California’s $1 billion annual investment in arts education is headed for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk after legislators reached a compromise with a champion of the original initiative.

Sep 03, 2026

Students at a Barrio Logan school that serves exclusively homeless youth are attending classes at two other schools while their campus is tested for mold.

Sep 03, 2026

Three weeks into the school year, students at one Modesto high school, at least, have mixed reactions about the district’s new cellphone policy.

Sep 03, 2026

When Heath Rocha was offered the job as interim superintendent for the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, he said the decision was easy.

Sep 03, 2026

L.A. Unified has adopted a moratorium on student use of generative artificial intelligence for the current school year, officials said Wednesday, another in the school district’s pioneering decisions to limit computer use in classrooms amid rising parent concerns about the reliance on technology in schools.

Sep 03, 2026

Carl Cohn, a former superintendent and state Board of Education member, will serve in the role of special master to ensure West Contra Costa Unified hires qualified teachers for its classrooms.

Sep 02, 2026

In an email, Kern High School District spokesperson Violeta Trujillo said the district is aware of an incident occurring between a student and security staff at BHS last week.

Sep 02, 2026

The years-long unionization effort in Clovis Unified School District has reached a historical point as the state’s Public Employment Relations Board weighs an intervention petition to determine how teachers can choose union representation.

Sep 02, 2026

Sacramento City Unified School District officials and local labor leaders urged voters Tuesday to approve a parcel tax that would raise an estimated $10 million annually for special education and early-intervention programs within the district.

Sep 02, 2026

A federal judge this week threw out the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging California policies that allow transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams that match their gender identity.

Sep 02, 2026

Lawmakers and the governor on Monday failed to extend a state grant program that helped schools upgrade their air conditioner systems, a decision that will allow utilities that funded the program to claw back funds for their ratepayers.

Sep 02, 2026

California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study.

Sep 02, 2026

Ten California school districts have been under state and county oversight in the last 35 years because they were fiscally insolvent and required an emergency state loan to continue to operate.

Sep 01, 2026

Unincorporated areas in Bakersfield are receiving a $1.8 million boost through the state's Safe Routes to Schools program, part of a larger $2.7 billion statewide transportation package.

Sep 01, 2026

A conflict between a Sacramento school district and the county Office of Education had ballooned to the point that a group of officials from across California wanted to change a piece of state law.

Sep 01, 2026

A group of Clovis Unified educators seeking to form a union affiliated with the California Teachers Association filed an intervention petition with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), challenging the fairness and eligibility of its rival group’s union petition.

Sep 01, 2026

Antioch Unified School District Superintendent Darnise Williams, who started just more than a year ago, was placed on administrative leave.

Aug 31, 2026

The cost to rename the school is estimated at $2 million if the new name retains the initials “CCHS” and $3 million if the new name uses different initials, according to the board.

Aug 31, 2026

Now the district must cut $6.5 million out of its budget — or the equivalent of about 70 full-time jobs — in order to avoid insolvency, school closures or a state takeover. If not all three.

Aug 31, 2026

A group of Clovis Unified educators seeking to form a union affiliated with the California Teachers Association filed an intervention petition with the state’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), challenging the fairness and eligibility of its rival group’s union petition.

Aug 31, 2026

A statewide county superintendents association’s attempt to amend California education law and limit the state superintendent’s power to intervene in local school district finances fell short after the Legislature declined to advance the proposal Friday.

Aug 31, 2026

With 60% of its $75 million solar energy system down, Mount Diablo Unified School District is left with questions about maintenance, repairs and financial losses.

Aug 31, 2026

West Contra Costa Unified School District, which serves about 25,000 students in and around Richmond, reflects many of the challenges facing California’s urban school systems.

Aug 31, 2026

The California County Superintendents organization failed to persuade legislative leaders to intervene in its dispute with State Superintendent Tony Thurmond.

Aug 28, 2026

The Bakersfield City School District’s Board of Education has voted to approve an addition to board policy that further defines guidelines and limits on how district employees should and should not interact with students.

Aug 28, 2026

California lawmakers agreed to a deal that will allow survivors of childhood sexual assault at public institutions to continue to sue the public bodies they say are responsible for their trauma.

Aug 28, 2026

Wake UP Sonoma is urging Sonoma Valley residents to attend the Sept. 10 Sonoma Valley Unified School District board meeting to urge district officials to keep the pride flag flying year round at Sonoma Valley High School.

Aug 28, 2026

The Ventura Unified School District approved the sale of two of its surplus buildings for about $47.3 million on Aug. 25, with the deal including future employee-housing units.

Aug 28, 2026

When escrow closes on Oct. 31, the city will own the property, while entering into a contract agreeing to pay the district the remaining $4.8 million during the next three years, city manager John Craig said.

Aug 28, 2026

The Sacramento County Office of Education Superintendent David Gordon wrote letters to the state and Sacramento City Unified superintendents Thursday, calling on the district to return money withdrawn from its retiree health trust and revise its agreement with the teachers union.

Aug 28, 2026

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on Thursday urged lawmakers to reject a “rushed and unnecessary” proposal advanced by the statewide county superintendents association that would limit his fiscal oversight authority, arguing that the conflict over Sacramento City Unified does not justify overhauling California’s broader oversight system.

Aug 28, 2026

A day after Thermal reached a daily record high of 118 degrees, two east Coachella Valley schools lost power Thursday, Aug. 27, sending students home early as temperatures again climbed above 100.

Aug 28, 2026

After November’s election, the governing board serving parents and students in the Clovis Unified School District will remain unchanged, as all three incumbents are running unopposed.

Aug 27, 2026

California and dozens of other states won sweeping new restrictions on how Facebook and Instagram treat children Wednesday, including daily time limits, overnight lockouts and stronger parental controls, along with as much as $17 billion from Meta.

Aug 27, 2026

The California Public Employees Retirement System confirmed Wednesday that it is not asking Sacramento City Unified to return roughly $20.6 million withdrawn from its retiree health fund.

Aug 27, 2026

Tens of thousands of elementary students in Fresno Unified may lose funding for field trips and sixth-grade camps as the school district struggles with an ongoing budget deficit and enters contract negotiations with the teachers’ union.

Aug 26, 2026

Nearly 300,000 California K-12 students experienced homelessness in the 2024-25 school year, the highest numbers ever recorded by UCLA researchers and a 10% increase from the prior peak in the 2018-19 school year.

Aug 26, 2026

A former substitute teacher avoided jail or house arrest after pleading guilty to mailing racist and threatening communications to school officials, including threats to shoot and kill Black students at an elementary school.

Aug 26, 2026

School officials are pondering two distinct approaches to create housing in San Jose for teachers and staffers: buy a housing tower or develop homes from the ground up.

Aug 26, 2026

For the last year, Homa has been requiring students in his honors economics and social entrepreneurship classes to handwrite their notes or use one of the five typewriters he acquired with funds from the high school’s New Millennium Foundation. Homa’s approach to education is part of a trend of educators who are trying to combat AI use and smartphone reliance in their classrooms.

Aug 26, 2026

California County Superintendents, a statewide association representing all 58 county offices of education that oversee school district finances, sent lawmakers a proposal Tuesday to require approval from the State Board of Education president before the state superintendent can assume a county office’s fiscal oversight authority.

Aug 25, 2026

California legislators this week are rushing to broker a compromise on child sexual assault lawsuits before the Legislature finishes for the year.

Aug 25, 2026

The San Luis Coastal Unified School District is demanding future funding and support from PG&E if Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant continues to operate in San Luis Obispo County.

Aug 25, 2026

Local students walked into a restroom at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Friday and found a loose gun during the game between Buchanan High and Golden West High, a Visalia school, police with the school district said.

Aug 24, 2026

BPD reported Friday night that the unidentified 17-year-old victim was shot just after 8 p.m. at the game between Independence and Centennial high schools. The game was abruptly canceled as police descended on the campus along Old River Road.

Aug 24, 2026

Mares said the usual hiring season for new superintendents is in January or February for the following fall term, allowing much more breathing room. However, in the case of the Sausalito Marin City School District, former superintendent LaResha Huffman left in June.

Aug 24, 2026

Enrollment declines are creating financial turmoil for schools statewide, a product of California’s declining population, worsened by immigration restrictions, and its high cost of living. In the South Bay Union School District, with its ongoing sewage crisis and a binational community rocked by border crackdowns, the issue is especially acute.

Aug 24, 2026

Teacher out-of-pocket spending on school supplies has increased 49% since 2015, with teachers now spending close to $900 a year, according to AdoptAClassroom.

Aug 24, 2026

The fight is especially pronounced in Silicon Valley, where the same parents who have for years developed and marketed tech are some of the most vocal advocates for reining it in.

Aug 24, 2026

The first day of school in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District on Monday, Aug. 17, was also the first day of a new ban on electric bikes and all other electric vehicles, such as scooters and boards, at its K-8 campuses.

Aug 24, 2026

While the district is actively working to qualify staff to meet new state requirements, Fresno Unified is deploying more employees with good driving records to temporarily help chauffeur students so they don’t miss the school events or extracurricular opportunities, said the message received by parents.

Aug 24, 2026

Modesto Teachers Association President Jennifer McGrath spoke during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting about Trustee Jolene Daly’s recent posts on Facebook that call the teachers union “bullies.”

Aug 21, 2026

The Covina-Valley Unified School District is seeking the help of both a local and a foreign court in defending a lawsuit brought by a woman, now in her mid-30s, who alleges she was sexually abused as a minor by a middle school teacher and that the administration ignored red flags.

Aug 21, 2026

“The District negotiated with Bloomington Gateway on a new agreement that keeps Zimmerman Elementary open under District ownership, guarantees millions of dollars for our schools, and includes binding commitments to protect students and staff,” Colton Superintendent Frank Miranda said in a news release.

Aug 21, 2026

“BCSD is the first district in Kern County that I am aware of,” Stone said, “that has fully implemented Prop. 28 in its intent to expand arts integration in our schools by hiring credentialed arts teachers..."

Aug 21, 2026

A bond rating agency has downgraded the Sausalito Marin City School District budget outlook from stable to negative, citing concerns over reserve levels, deficits and other issues.

Aug 21, 2026

As Fresno Unified enters the second year towards realizing its ambitious five-year literacy-boosting goals, Superintendent Misty Her shared the district’s plan to provide students with targeted support in improving early literacy.

Aug 21, 2026

Modesto Teachers Association President Jennifer McGrath began her role at the start of the 2025-26 school year, around the same time Modesto City Schools Superintendent Vanessa Buitrago began hers. The pair have expressed mutual respect despite being at an impasse in labor negotiations.

Aug 21, 2026

A state complaint lodged against Chino Valley schools alleges that over 20 books have been pulled from library shelves — including works by Toni Morrison and Ellen Hopkins — without required public hearings.

Aug 21, 2026

Temecula school board members voted 5-0 Tuesday night to require that the U.S. national anthem be played or performed “prior to the start of each home junior varsity and varsity interscholastic athletic contest.”

Aug 21, 2026

Ripon High School has gone without a mascot since July 1, when the California Racial Mascots Act went into effect. The California Racial Mascots Act banned K-12 schools from using Native American-related team names, nicknames or mascots such as Indians, Braves, Chiefs or Redskins.

Aug 21, 2026

As schools reopen amid a national surge in measles cases, California students will continue to follow the state’s existing vaccination requirements, despite President Donald Trump’s latest effort to change the country’s childhood vaccine schedule.

Aug 20, 2026

Declining enrollment in California public schools is spawning a new and growing partnership that is helping to keep childcare centers in business — vacant classrooms are being filled with toddlers and babies.

Aug 20, 2026

A group of South Bay parents are suing the Palo Alto Unified School District over a school field trip to a mosque in 2025. The group of parents asserts the district failed to maintain religious neutrality and ensure “equal treatment among faiths.

Aug 20, 2026

Los Angeles County education leaders say Inglewood Unified is emerging from a financial crisis that started more than a decade ago. An estimated 5,000 students returned to district campuses this week for the start of what could be the last school year under the control of an outside administrator.

Aug 20, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom celebrated the full implementation of universal transitional kindergarten and free school meals, among other statewide education reforms, Wednesday morning at Schafer Park Elementary School in Hayward, Calif.

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.