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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.
Nov 26, 2025
Scores of Marin middle school students might have a more consistent and structured path to play team sports by next fall if a new countywide athletic league goes forward as planned.
Nov 26, 2025
They won 2025 Golden Bell Awards, a statewide honor to commend projects that find unique solutions to improve education and better serve students. They are handed out by the California School Boards Association.
Nov 26, 2025
San Dieguito Union High School District is mulling new rules for its high school foundations, months after an audit prompted by two teens’ investigation found financial and operational mismanagement within the nonprofits.
Nov 26, 2025
As some families come together to celebrate federal and state-recognized holidays, others participate in religious and cultural celebrations that take place on school days, raising questions about how to ensure students can participate in rituals and cultural celebrations while keeping up with their schoolwork.
Nov 25, 2025
Roosevelt High School, one of Fresno Unified’s oldest school sites, will soon get a second gymnasium. A Fresno Unified spokesperson said Roosevelt’s existing gym has a capacity of 1200 people. The second gym will include additional courts and practice areas for training, as well as instructional spaces.
Nov 25, 2025
How did replacing half a classroom’s worth of carpet cost more than $22,000? That is the question that supporters of former sixth-grade teacher Jeanine Rupert of Phoebe Hearst Elementary School have been asking since she was removed for ripping up her classroom carpet on the last day of the 2024-25 school year.
Nov 25, 2025
In today’s highly digitized world, reliable internet access is extremely important for students to effectively learn and succeed in school.
Nov 25, 2025
When Joanna Gao and her husband decided to immigrate with their two middle school sons from Shanghai to Palo Alto in 2018, they hoped the move would increase their sons’ chances of getting into a good college.
Nov 25, 2025
Schools across California may be at risk of losing social workers and counselors due to federal cuts, but in San Diego County, they are using a $7 million state grant to help shape the fight against youth suicide.
Nov 24, 2025
More than $5 million in staff and services are on the chopping block in the San Luis Coastal school district, as administrators continue to attempt to reverse a multimillion-dollar structural budget deficit.
Nov 24, 2025
A forensic audit has found that the Nutrition Services department in the Rialto Unified School District received more than $3 million in excess federal funding over a three-year period due to inflated student meal counts.
Nov 24, 2025
The San Francisco Unified School District is touting the results of a Stanford University study that showed how far a signature racial-equity initiative can go towards closing decades-old inequalities in The City’s public education system — but only through significantly more investment.
Nov 24, 2025
When Fresno Unified renamed its diversity, equity and inclusion department in September, district officials said it wasn’t in response to the Trump administration’s DEI crackdown.
Nov 24, 2025
Oceanside Unified School District was fined $4,000 this week by state election regulators for sending a mailer featuring its board members at public expense.
Nov 24, 2025
The Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funds to schools with race-based programs and a discrimination lawsuit prompted the Fresno Unified School District to restructure its academic support department for Black students.
Nov 24, 2025
The Livingston Union School District improved chronic absenteeism, suspensions and student well-being by investing in school counselors, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools.
Nov 21, 2025
Surging tax revenue from Silicon Valley’s big bet on artificial intelligence will produce greater-than-expected funding for schools and community colleges in California in the short run. But how long will the AI investment boom last?
Nov 21, 2025
Students, teachers and parents are denouncing proposed cost-cutting measures at two Tamalpais Union High School District campuses.
Nov 21, 2025
Instead of being housed in a single agency, much of the Education Department’s work now will be spread across four other federal departments.
Nov 21, 2025
In a 4-3 vote, the Board of Education approved three packages of reductions to school-based services, the central office and contracts.
Nov 21, 2025
At a time when the federal government is dismantling civil rights protections in K-12 schools, California is expanding them — although some wonder how far the state will go to combat discrimination in schools.
Nov 21, 2025
More than 50 administrators at Sacramento City Unified School District are slated to lose their jobs as the district deals with a looming financial crisis.
Nov 21, 2025
Parents and advocate groups demanded transparency and accountability from Antioch Unified School District and Antioch High School following a recent hazing incident involving some football players.
Nov 21, 2025
California has never spent more state money on TK-12 students — more than double per student over the past dozen years. But that could change in 2030 when a temporary tax in place since 2012 on the wealthiest Californians is set to expire.
Nov 20, 2025
In recent days, Education Secretary Linda McMahon has started a public campaign for the end of her department, making the case on social media that Education’s grantmaking and question-answering functions could be better handled by states and other federal agencies.
Nov 20, 2025
Two controversial books were at the heart of a contentious debate at a Lucia Mar school board meeting Tuesday night, where some parents demanded the titles be removed from the Arroyo Grande High School library.
Nov 20, 2025
After months of contract negotiations and public protests, Natomas teachers are threatening to strike if district leaders do not soon agree to raise wages, offer better health benefits and improve classroom conditions.
Nov 20, 2025
After a months-long internal investigation, irate emails from far-and-wide PhDs in chemistry and an international outcry, a Silicon Valley school district has confirmed that burning firewood does not, in fact, produce oxygen.
Nov 20, 2025
Facing a dire financial outlook, the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education is poised to cut millions of dollars in programs and services on Thursday, to stave off a massive deficit and ceding control to county oversight.
Nov 20, 2025
At a contentious meeting Wednesday night, the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s board delivered the results of a lengthy investigation into an alleged misuse of public funds by the county’s former superintendent of schools — but conflicting claims by county office of education leaders made it clear that many questions still swirl around the findings.
Nov 20, 2025
A parent dropping their child off at a West Oakland elementary school was apparently targeted by federal immigration officers Wednesday morning, resulting in a car chase that ended in a crash, according to Oakland City Council Member Carroll Fife.
Nov 20, 2025
Surging tax revenue from Silicon Valley’s big bet on artificial intelligence will produce greater-than-expected funding for schools and community colleges in California in the short run. But how long will the AI investment boom last?
Nov 19, 2025
Six new agreements signed by the Education Department will effectively move billions of dollars in grant programs to other agencies. Most notable is one that will put the Department of Labor over some of the largest federal funding streams for K-12 schools, including Title I money for schools serving low-income communities.
Nov 19, 2025
Working under an expired contract since the summer, the sides find themselves at an impasse, with another in a chain of mediation sessions coming up on Dec. 1.
Nov 19, 2025
A former Sacramento teacher, who was arrested last year on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material, is being accused of grooming and sexually assaulting one of his students on campus.
Nov 19, 2025
California state officials and some education advocates joined others around the country in condemning a plan announced Tuesday by the Trump administration to disassemble the U.S. Department of Education.
Nov 18, 2025
It’s now up to a federal judge whether the California Department of Education and the Escondido Union School District can enforce what’s called a "parental exclusion policy."
Nov 18, 2025
For four consecutive days last month, a group of Los Angeles County students were suspended after a fight broke out in their classroom inside a juvenile detention facility.
Nov 17, 2025
For the second time this year, the Kern County Board of Education came close to passing a resolution that would have placed an unabashedly religious text in public schools in Kern County.
Nov 17, 2025
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District officials are saying they are excited to see improvement by local students in the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress 2024-2025 results released earlier this week.
Nov 17, 2025
Fresno Unified is still trying to recover $2.2 million in stolen funds nearly two years after a fraudster posed as a representative of a general contractor doing business with the district.
Nov 17, 2025
Most of San Diego County’s roughly two dozen school districts with active bond programs are open about how they’re spending billions in taxpayer money, with a few exceptions, according to a new annual report from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association.
Nov 17, 2025
In a legal victory Thursday, California secured $200 million in pandemic recovery school funding that the Trump administration had refused to provide.
Nov 17, 2025
The California Department of Education on Thursday released the annual California School Dashboard, which means it’s time for a refresher course in the state’s multidimensional, multicolored look at student, school and district achievement.
Nov 17, 2025
It’s lunch time at Lincoln Crossing Elementary. And today, they’re serving up burgers. But this meal might be a little different than what you’d expect out of a school lunch.
Nov 14, 2025
The Kern County Board of Education, in a move that surprised nearly 200 members of the public who attended the meeting Thursday night, removed a controversial item from the agenda that they had been expected to vote on.
Nov 14, 2025
Students, parents and Pasadena Unified School District employees made a final plea to district leaders Thursday, Nov. 13, that an array of programs and services be spared from the millions of imminent cuts required in the face of an ongoing structural deficit.
Nov 14, 2025
California’s K-12 students showed moderate progress academically last year, with some bright spots but otherwise plateauing after years of post-pandemic improvements, according to the new California School Dashboard released today.
Nov 14, 2025
Sacramento City Unified School District leaders are navigating a tough reality as they consider tens of millions of dollars in cuts necessitated by a multi-year budget deficit, while keeping the effects of those decisions as far from the classroom as possible.
Nov 14, 2025
As Oakland’s school district faces threats of both fiscal insolvency and another teachers strike, 30 city charter schools have stepped up efforts to woo frustrated families, offering a one-stop shopping website with an easy application process.
Nov 14, 2025
Livingston Union School District improved chronic absenteeism, suspensions and student well-being by investing in school counselors, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools.
Nov 14, 2025
State officials on Thursday celebrated new heights in just-released high school graduation rates, though similar achievement levels were not seen in other measures of student learning.
Nov 14, 2025
California schools continued to make incremental gains in graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, academic achievement and college readiness, according to the California School Dashboard released Thursday.
Nov 13, 2025
After interviewing finalists in a public meeting, Stockton Unified School District Board of Trustees appointed Patrick Martin to replace former Area 2 Trustee AngelAnn Flores, who was removed from office.
Nov 13, 2025
Paso Robles High School principal Megan Fletcher was arrested on campus Monday for allegedly driving to school while under the influence of alcohol, according to police.
Nov 13, 2025
San Francisco’s public schools are feeling the growing pains of California expanding its nation-leading transitional-kindergarten program statewide, according to frustrated parents and educators.
Nov 13, 2025
As Congress voted to end the government shutdown, schools are still grappling with the upheaval and uncertainty it caused.
Nov 12, 2025
A local school board is considering a resolution on Thursday, Nov. 13, that would post the Ten Commandments in some school buildings, and while the move would only impact a very limited number of students, the proposal is drawing public opposition.
Nov 12, 2025
Paso Robles High School principal Megan Fletcher was abruptly placed on paid administrative leave Monday, district spokesperson Melissa Godsey confirmed to The Tribune.
Nov 12, 2025
California is asking the Trump administration for permission to use federal funding to provide meals to students outside of school hours, as families continue to reel amid the federal government’s cuts to food stamps.
Nov 12, 2025
A few months ago, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles Unified noticed something different about his students’ tests. Students who had struggled all semester were suddenly getting A’s. He suspected some were cheating, but he couldn’t figure out how.
Nov 12, 2025
Heat the pizza. Microwave the burrito. As a director of food and nutrition, it’s mundane to spend each day feeling stuck in the same endless cycle.
Nov 10, 2025
Through their San Luis Coastal Parent Information Network, they’ve launched a letter-writing campaign in hopes of securing $7.5 million from PG&E to account for the district’s missing unitary tax income, previously generated by Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
Nov 10, 2025
Trump officials say the end goal is to boost participation in the labor force, especially for the millions of young adults who are not in school or working.
Nov 10, 2025
A former Rialto Unified middle school student has filed a lawsuit alleging a substitute teacher failed to protect her by not breaking up a fight between her and a male student that was seen widely on social media
Nov 10, 2025
As Sacramento City Unified School District faces a $43 million budget deficit, it must prove fiscal solvency to prevent county intervention.
Nov 10, 2025
As a small girl in Highland, Baily Wilkins attended San Bernardino schools. She watched her mom teach special education students there. So it made sense when Wilkins later returned to her school district as a substitute teacher at Emmerton Elementary School, where she too worked with special-needs students.
Nov 10, 2025
Four months after control of the Oakland Unified School District was returned to local officials, they face a bleak financial reality that Superintendent Denise Gail Saddler warned will lead to cuts that cause “significant pain.”
Nov 10, 2025
Only a few months into Rosie Leyva’s job as a literacy specialist at Butler Academic Center, Alameda County’s juvenile hall school, she learned that success looks different for each student.
Nov 07, 2025
Nearly 2 million children statewide rely on SNAP funds, known in California as CalFresh, for their meals. All K-12 students receive free breakfast and lunch on school days through California’s Universal Meals Program, but that’s not enough for families who rely on those benefits.
Nov 07, 2025
Teachers at the Torrance Unified School District already had one of the lowest salaries in the South Bay and among other comparable districts, but now their take-home pay has been hit even harder — as their out-of-pocket health insurance costs have gone up more than 40%.
Nov 07, 2025
A Sacramento-based charter school that sparked calls for reform after a state audit found it misspent $180 million in K-12 funding is one step closer to closing.
Nov 06, 2025
A battle over how many grades are offered at a small, distant San Luis Obispo County school has escalated from the boardroom to the courtroom.
Nov 06, 2025
Local high schoolers, and even some middle schoolers, have a chance to earn college credit and even complete an associate degree thanks to a partnership between the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District and Monterey Peninsula College that has recently been renewed.
Nov 06, 2025
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Wednesday rejected the Los Angeles Unified School District’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by former LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner, who accuses the district of misusing millions of dollars meant for arts and music instruction under Proposition 28.
Nov 06, 2025
Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Elizabeth Blanco and fellow district leaders Wednesday, Nov. 5, told a virtual audience of parents, teachers and other stakeholders that work continues in identifying where the district can cut $30 million to $35 million needed to address an ongoing structural deficit.
Nov 06, 2025
Twin Rivers Unified School District will move forward with the charter revocation process against Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, but district leaders are branding it as a final chance for the school to prove itself to be in legal and contractual compliance.
Nov 06, 2025
A new report from a state advisory agency recommends California provide more money for schools damaged by the Eaton and Palisades fires and create guidelines to help campuses reopen safely after future fires.
Nov 06, 2025
In three separate rulings, the California Department of Education has determined that the Oakland Unified School District created a “discriminatory environment” against Jewish students and staff, contradicting the district’s findings.
Nov 05, 2025
For programs across California that rely on federal AmeriCorps funding to provide services such as mentoring and tutoring, it’s been a year of dramatic ups and downs.
Nov 04, 2025
Amid the uncertainty over the government shutdown and the future of federal SNAP funding, school communities across California are voicing concern about student food insecurity.
Nov 04, 2025
Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools’ authorizing district is seeking to revoke the school’s charter in the wake of a number of alleged violations of the law and of its charter agreement.
Nov 04, 2025
Lilya Medvedev and 84 other students in Kinney High School’s culinary arts program were given a difficult task last Wednesday: plan and prepare 50 healthy meals by Friday for families facing a food crisis due to delays in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Nov 03, 2025
In a three year-span, the Los Angeles County Office of Education sent 10 letters to Pasadena Unified School District warning it to address ongoing deficit spending.
Nov 03, 2025
The state’s standardized test scores are in, and some Fresno County school districts saw noticeable increases in their year-over-year results.
Nov 03, 2025
At first glance, preschool students in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno County don’t appear to be receiving arts education. They are inside a farm exhibit with a big red barn and pretend horses to ride on.
Oct 31, 2025
In 2018, parents from southeast Fresno’s vibrant Hmong community shared some troubling observations with Fresno Unified educators. Their kids weren’t learning how to speak the Hmong language like they had in their youth.
Oct 31, 2025
In the waning minutes of a nearly seven-hour meeting Tuesday evening, the San Francisco school board took the first critical step toward a renewed plan for considering school closures, while also reviving the effort to replace its unpredictable and largely reviled student assignment system.
Oct 31, 2025
A high school principal in Alameda County has resigned as part of a settlement after a school district investigation found sufficient evidence that he used an online app to communicate with a former and current student about sex, once proposing a “secret school tryst,” public records show.
Oct 31, 2025
The vast majority of urban, public grade schools in California are paved-over “nature deserts” sorely lacking in trees or shade — leaving most of the state’s 5.8 million school-age children to bake in the sun during breaks from the classroom as rising global temperatures usher in more dangerous heat waves.
Oct 29, 2025
The case involves funding meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools. In a preliminary ruling Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Kymberly Evanson in Seattle said the administration must release the money.
Oct 29, 2025
The Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s Budget Advisory Committee Wednesday, Oct. 29, will meet for the final time before recommending reductions to the Board of Education.
Oct 29, 2025
Maria Su’s first year as the superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District was an eventful one. The Board of Education swore her into the position on Oct. 22, 2024, days after predecessor Matt Wayne resigned amid criticism of a school-closures plan the district ultimately scrapped.
Oct 29, 2025
Clovis Unified upgraded its fleet of school buses to include a $1.9 million security camera system that will allow the district to monitor footage in “near real-time.”
Oct 29, 2025
The Rialto Unified school board has selected a new superintendent after nearly a year of district turmoil, including the firing of its former schools chief and a forensic audit into allegations of fiscal mismanagement in the Nutrition Services department.
Oct 28, 2025
Though test scores in La Jolla public schools remain well above averages in the San Diego Unified School District, they are less so as students make the transition from elementary to middle and high school.
Oct 28, 2025
The independent monitor tasked with creating and enforcing the Black Parallel School Board action plan at Sacramento City Unified School District stepped down Monday, according to a joint news release from the school district.
Oct 28, 2025
California education officials are tasked with a difficult mission over the next few months — finding the best way to figure out which 4-year-olds need extra help learning English.
Oct 27, 2025
Often referred to as the first of a two-year-kindergarten program, transitional kindergarten is California’s newest grade level. It helps prepare youngsters for kindergarten through play-based learning.
Oct 27, 2025
As of last school year, roughly 18% of all Lodi Unified students are enrolled in special education — a level several percentage points above the statewide average.
Oct 27, 2025
At CART High near Fresno, there is no gum stuck to the floor. The saffron-yellow walls are unmarred by graffiti. Toting laptops, students file calmly down spacious, light-filled hallways to classes like biotechnology and digital marketing.
Oct 27, 2025
Sacramento City Unified School District canceled a Friday meeting requested by families of Phoebe Hearst Elementary School regarding the two teachers who were removed from their classrooms this school year.
Oct 27, 2025
Fewer San Diego County kindergarteners are getting their state-required childhood vaccinations each year, and their measles immunization rate places the county below herd immunity levels, county data for the last school year shows.
Oct 27, 2025
A White House decision to add $100,000 to the price of a work visa, allowing employers to hire from overseas for hard-to-fill positions, has California’s technology industry and other businesses reeling. But another group is also on edge: the state’s schools.
Oct 24, 2025
The Lodi Unified School District will be developing a five-year strategic plan in the near future, and will begin the planning process next spring.
Oct 24, 2025
Teachers in the St. Helena Unified School District earn an average of $155,546 per year, according to state data for 2023-24 — making it one of the highest-paying public school districts in California.
Oct 24, 2025
The Sacramento Police Department starting in January will no longer assign school resource officers to the Natomas Unified School District, which will end a three-year, $2.1 million contract five months after it began.
Oct 24, 2025
The former leader of Grossmont Union High School District, longtime district educator Mike Fowler, has died after a battle with brain cancer. Fowler was chosen in April of last year to lead the East County district of about 16,500 students after serving in the district for 28 years.
Oct 24, 2025
The Victor Valley Union High School District has agreed to pay $12.5 million to eight former students who alleged they were sexually abused more than 20 years ago by a former middle school guidance counselor.
Oct 24, 2025
McKinleyville Union School District has sued the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly discontinuing the district’s federal mental health grant illegally, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Oct 24, 2025
A public-interest law firm filed a lawsuit Thursday against the state of California, charging that its program to subsidize school construction perpetuates vast inequalities for students in low-wealth communities.
Oct 24, 2025
San Francisco State’s enrollment is in free fall — but the university is banking on a new agreement with the city’s school district and City College of San Francisco to help all three institutions.
Oct 22, 2025
The Tamalpais Union High School District board is not happy about another year of declining state test scores.
Oct 22, 2025
Santa Rosa City Schools officials are considering whether to float a proposed parcel tax to voters as early as next year as another way to help address the district’s severe budget crisis.
Oct 22, 2025
Alyssa Esquivel, an American Sign Language aide who sued the San Gabriel Unified School District for censorship, discrimination and retaliation because of her Christian faith and pro-Trump stance, has settled with the district, her attorneys announced Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Oct 21, 2025
The new law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading,” a method of literacy instruction focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out rather than learning words by sight.
Oct 21, 2025
According to recently released scores on the 2025 state Smarter Balanced Assessments, more than 46% of LAUSD students met or exceeded state standards in English, marking more than a 3% increase from the previous year.
Oct 21, 2025
Santa Rosa City Schools is turning to pay cuts for its top administrators and other district managers as another way to dig out of its financial crisis — and lay the groundwork for more campus staff layoffs that top officials say are inevitable to stave off the threat of a state takeover.
Oct 21, 2025
Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown, leaving many scrambling to figure out how to keep their doors open.
Oct 21, 2025
Schools often promote student sick day guidelines advising parents to send children to school with colds. Many parents resist, especially those with kindergartners, citing health concerns and fears of spreading illness to classmates and teachers.
Oct 20, 2025
Due to displays of unsportsmanlike conduct from spectators and players at a game held last Saturday against McKinleyville, Eureka High has determined the next boys soccer game will be played without fans.
Oct 20, 2025
The Novato Unified School District could lose up to 150 students because of immigration threats, jeopardizing the stability of its $130 million budget.
Oct 20, 2025
The Mill Valley School District released the latest soils test at Mill Valley Middle School that concluded the site does not present a health risk to students and staff.
Oct 20, 2025
While she didn’t do so intentionally, Ginny Fang picked a particularly tumultuous time to head up the San Francisco Unified School District’s nonprofit wing.
Oct 20, 2025
Standardized test scores in one Fresno area school district have made a triumphant comeback from the pandemic slump that sank results across the state’s public schools.
Oct 20, 2025
The Riverside school district now has an online form for parents to pull their children from lessons that don’t align with their religious beliefs.
Oct 20, 2025
Stuck in contentious negotiations over new contracts, two West Contra Costa Unified School District unions have overwhelmingly voted in favor of striking if district leadership cannot adequately meet their demands.
Oct 20, 2025
California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.
Oct 20, 2025
The tensions that had been building for months over a bill aiming to clamp down on antisemitism in California schools came to a head on a Friday morning last month.
Oct 20, 2025
When students walk into Gina Gray’s English classroom in Middle College High School on any given testing day, she greets them with encouragement: “Tap into your genius. You have it,” Gray reminds the 11th graders.
Oct 17, 2025
The Paso Robles school board will not consider a resolution restricting transgender students in the interest of protecting cisgender girls, it decided Tuesday night.
Oct 17, 2025
After 10 years of construction, the grand reopening of the east Salinas school, had finally arrived.
Oct 17, 2025
The buildings include space for arts and music programs, plus a multipurpose eating area and a flexible gathering space for students.
Oct 17, 2025
The superintendent of the Reed Union School District been chosen for a statewide panel with the California School Boards Association.
Oct 17, 2025
The new funding from the California Department of Education will let students take these college courses at Patterson High School instead of needing to drive to Modesto Junior College.
Oct 17, 2025
A small elementary district in northeast Santa Rosa has emerged as the latest Sonoma County school system to announce a multi-million dollar budget deficit that will require significant cuts.
Oct 17, 2025
Lawmakers’ attempts at enacting charter school and school accountability reforms in the wake of high-profile charter fraud cases have once again failed, after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have added a raft of oversight requirements.
Oct 17, 2025
Parents and students angry over the removal of two sixth-grade teachers from Phoebe Hearst Elementary School in East Sacramento voiced their frustration Thursday evening at the Sacramento City Unified School District board meeting.
Oct 16, 2025
Despite the fact that most schools haven’t surpassed their pre-COVID scores, SLO County is still out-performing statewide results.
Oct 16, 2025
After confusion and outrage over the future of a playing field in Marin City, school trustees have halted discussion about field use through the end of the year.
Oct 16, 2025
The board voted unanimously on Tuesday to fill the Trustee Area 5 seat by provisional appointment.
Oct 16, 2025
More than 100 teachers, aides and parents of special needs students in the district packed a board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Whittier.
Oct 16, 2025
The one-minute drill, which is designed to simulate the response to a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, was developed to teach people what to do when a large temblor strikes and ways to prepare for such a disaster.
Oct 16, 2025
A U.S. federal court judge has shut down a move by the Chino Valley school board to allow prayer at its board meetings.
Oct 16, 2025
The change trustees approved Tuesday evening is a scaled-back plan from the district, after community members voiced concerns at a September board meeting.
Oct 16, 2025
A divided Los Angeles school board has voted to shut down a popular charter school to make more space for its own program on the same Echo Park campus, pushing the boundaries of state law and school district authority over charters.
Oct 15, 2025
Sacramento students are underperforming in English language arts and mathematics assessments compared to their peers across the state, according to new data released by the California Department of Education.
Oct 15, 2025
For 50 years, families flooded into the East Bay’s Tri-Valley region for spacious homes and good schools. Districts scrambled to build school campuses fast enough to keep up.
Oct 15, 2025
The ranking and review site recently released its 2026 list of the Best Schools in America, evaluating schools based on academics, diversity, teachers and college preparation.
Oct 15, 2025
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board approved a new employment agreement for Superintendent Alberto Carvalho at Tuesday’s board meeting, weeks after unanimously reappointing him.
Oct 14, 2025
A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s students and schools in areas from special education to civil rights enforcement and after-school programs.
Oct 14, 2025
The Hawthorne School District and Cal State Dominguez Hills recently inked an agreement to guarantee admission for graduates of the Hawthorne Math and Science Academy, the district’s only high school.
Oct 14, 2025
Each pod can be unlocked via the Mamava app and the space includes a seat, mirror, fan for white noise, shelves, outlets and coat hooks. The pods are open to breastfeeding teachers and staff, as well as any students who may need access.
Oct 14, 2025
Nearly 250 Phoebe Hearst Elementary School students stayed home from class Monday to protest the removal of two beloved sixth-grade teachers.
Oct 14, 2025
As local news outlets rapidly disappear, high school and college journalists are increasingly stepping beyond their campuses to report on their communities, helping to fill the news deserts left behind.
Oct 14, 2025
California legislators and representatives of education advocacy organizations and unions spent hundreds of hours negotiating education bills this legislative session.
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.