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Oct 04, 2023
Stockton Unified was required to submit a response to the grand jury's 28 findings and 27 recommendations within 90 days of receiving the report. Of the 28 findings, the district said it agreed with one, "partially agreed" with another, disagreed with 12, and "partially disagreed" with 14.
Oct 04, 2023
The training will consist of five sessions from Oct. 2023 through Feb. 2024 to “provide legal and practical foundation for addressing and responding to bias incidents and creating a sustainable approach to system-wide practices based on a framework and internal accountability.”
Oct 04, 2023
A retired federal judge has brought a civil lawsuit against Orange County Board of Education’s Mari Barke for allegedly failing to disclose as much as $14 million in income and business interests since her election.
Oct 04, 2023
Solana Beach School District Superintendent Jodee Brentlinger has announced her plans to retire in January after a 35-year career in education. Brentlinger, who led the district for the last 5 1/2 years, is planning for her last day to be Jan. 2.
Oct 04, 2023
The family of Kevon DeLeon settled its case with the Vallejo City Unified School District after the teenager’s death in 2021 from a seizure when he was allowed to wander away from his supervised special needs program at Everest Academy.
Oct 04, 2023
Temecula teachers have had to adjust the content of the lessons they teach and how they teach them, from taking down posters of Black activists, veering away from discussing current events and even removing classroom libraries.
Oct 03, 2023
Trustees will also consider a request from Forest Ranch Charter School — part of the CUSD — for three allocations from the Measure K bond funding from 2016. Charter schools within the district are entitled to receive 15.34% of Measure K funds.
Oct 03, 2023
The San Dieguito Union High School District has settled a lawsuit filed last year over a controversial redistricting map that had caused turmoil in the district. The board voted 3-2 to approve the settlement during a closed-session meeting last month.
Oct 03, 2023
English learners need foundational skills like phonics and vocabulary in addition to instruction in speaking and understanding English and connections to their home languages. Those are two agreements laid out in a new joint statement Tuesday authored by two organizations.
Oct 03, 2023
Two years ago the Los Angeles Unified School District gave staff an ultimatum: get vaccinated or lose your job. Now that the vaccine mandate is over, a group of former staff members are responding with a choice of their own: rehire us or face our fury.
Oct 02, 2023
Gregory Peters, the Bay Area schools reform leader and executive director of education, is an independent monitor who will draft and execute a five-year action plan to reduce disciplinary referrals of Black students with disabilities.
Oct 02, 2023
The city of Del Mar and The Winston School reached an agreement that will allow the school to remain on the Shores property, both sides announced on Friday. The two sides began mediation earlier this year.
Oct 02, 2023
Modesto City Schools over the next two years will gradually phase out programs in light of COVID-19 funds going away, district Superintendent Sara Noguchi and Associate Superintendent Tim Zearley reported at the Sept. 25 Board of Education meeting.
Oct 02, 2023
Contradictory rulings in state and federal court make it hard to know if the law is on the side of Southern California school boards at the forefront of a debate about whether educators must tell parents if their children identify as transgender.
Oct 02, 2023
California is rolling out its transitional kindergarten program, with the goal of offering it for all 4-year-olds by 2025-26. While some schools have had programs in place for years, others are just starting to create teaching guidelines.
Oct 02, 2023
For decades, the prestigious humanities magnet program at Grover Cleveland Charter High School sent students to the nation’s best colleges, but it also fostered a culture of sexual abuse in which students were exploited by their teachers.
Sep 29, 2023
City supervisors are now showing interest in the middle school algebra debate, and nearly half want San Francisco voters to weigh in on a March ballot. The San Francisco Unified School District's decision to forgo eighth grade algebra has outraged many parents since it was implemented a decade ago, even leading to a lawsuit against the school district in May.
Sep 29, 2023
Wearing blue union T-shirts, teachers went to the Temecula school board meeting hoping to walk out with more pay. Instead, they left the Tuesday, Sept. 26, session angry and disappointed after an agreement between their union and the Temecula Valley Unified School District failed to get three votes on the five-member board.
Sep 29, 2023
The night began with a man dressed in a white coat with what looked like fake blood spilled over his front. He approached the podium at the Franklin-McKinley school board meeting ready to perform — and by pretending to be a doctor hell-bent on performing gender-affirmation surgeries on children, that’s what he did.
Sep 29, 2023
Amid the tug-of-war of negotiations and a looming strike, both sides insist that they want to collaborate but continue to accuse the other side of stalling and impeding progress. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking, and more than 70,000 students who are still dealing with learning loss from the pandemic will inevitably bear the brunt of the fallout.
Sep 28, 2023
SCOE’s special education classes, which are located on district campuses, cost the districts $84,000 per pupil for the school year.
Sep 28, 2023
The construction is aimed at replacing aging buildings and giving students modernized and flexible indoor-outdoor spaces to learn, perform, gather and dine. It is estimated to cost $106 million and take 2 1/2 years to complete.
Sep 28, 2023
San Diego Unified leaders marked the opening of their newest joint campus in City Heights on Wednesday, an investment they hope will support the diverse and largely immigrant neighborhood.
Sep 28, 2023
Moorpark Unified School District officials confirmed Wednesday morning that a high school teacher was placed on administrative leave after he was recorded yelling racist comments and profanities at a sidewalk fruit seller Sunday afternoon.
Sep 28, 2023
When California’s top education official, Tony Thurmond, showed up at a local school board meeting in Chino this summer, he was ready for a fight. But this conservative school board was ready, too.
Sep 27, 2023
Interim Chief Business Official Joann Juarez said that all of the projects included in the master plan won't be covered by the Measure C bond the district received in 2022. District officials are planning on pursuing other bonds to cover the additional costs.
Sep 27, 2023
Sunol Glen School parents, teachers and community members packed last week's special school board meeting — which many criticized for being called at the last minute — to once again question the board majority's leadership in the wake of the recently passed and highly debated flag resolution.
Sep 27, 2023
California schools chief Tony Thurmond announced Tuesday that he’s running for governor in 2026. Thurmond joins Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and former state Controller Betty Yee in the race to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Sep 27, 2023
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted 6 to 1 on Tuesday to rescind its two-year-old COVID-19 vaccine mandate for staff, saying it is no longer needed to assure safe in-person learning.
Sep 27, 2023
The tensions and competing needs of L.A. schools — especially more than 100 serving academically struggling, low-income students — was at the heart of a resolution approved by the school board Tuesday that limits where charters can rent on-campus classroom space from the district.
Sep 26, 2023
The stabbing took place March 1 in a classroom while other students were present. The matter led to students and parents demanding improved safety measures at Montgomery High and other schools across the region.
Sep 26, 2023
A Sacramento City Unified School District employee has been placed on leave after a video of him pushing a student surfaced online. KCRA reported that the video shows a male employee walking up to a group of students and pushing one of them to the ground.
Sep 26, 2023
After 10 months at the bargaining table and patience wearing thin, the San Francisco teachers union has called for a strike vote, a move labor leaders hope will pressure district officials to cede to demands amid family fears of a mid-semester school shutdown.
Sep 26, 2023
Students of various backgrounds and ethnicities cheer, clapping loudly wearing their esports jerseys as they enter the esports gaming lab. Large-screen gaming computers with lighted keyboards that change colors every few seconds are turned on and prepped to start.
Sep 26, 2023
Under the new law, which will take effect immediately, the state will fine schools that block textbooks and school library books for discriminatory reasons. It will also charge districts for replacement textbooks when they fail to purchase curriculum aligning with state anti-discrimination laws.
Sep 25, 2023
An “Extraordinary Audit” conducted by an educational management firm (FCMAT) has revealed suspected fraud at Ezequiel Tafoya Alvarado Academy, a Madera County charter school authorized by Madera Unified School District.
Sep 25, 2023
Buena High earned a $4,000 grant from the NOAA's Ocean Guardian School program over the summer to help turn its garden into a native plant haven and expand its vegetable beds to supply Buena's culinary arts program.
Sep 25, 2023
Speaking to roughly 50 people and surrounded by several Black leaders from Monterey County, Valerie Anthony assailed the findings of an investigation by the Pacific Grove Unified School District involving a number of alleged racial incidents her children were exposed to by white children and then a lack of action by the school district.
Sep 25, 2023
The SJCOE had been providing streaming services for a total of $15,000 a year but will no longer provide that service in the spring. Now that the district must look at private videography companies, Assistant superintendent Robert Sahli said streaming graduation ceremonies for nine schools will increase to about $32,000 a year.
Sep 25, 2023
Whittier-area school districts this week cheered awards of $20,000 each to help fund efforts to combat student homelessness and address other needs. Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn presented the $20,000 checks to 10 local school districts at a Whittier Area School Trustees Association event on Thursday, Sept. 21.
Sep 25, 2023
The new laws include legislation that focuses on support for LGBTQ youth. One law sets timelines for required cultural competency training for public school teachers and staff, while another creates an advisory task force to determine the needs of LGBTQ students and help advance supportive initiatives.
Sep 25, 2023
All California public schools will be required to provide gender-neutral bathrooms under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday. The legislation expands a decade-old law that requires K-12 schools to allow students to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
Sep 25, 2023
The Rocklin Teachers Professional Association has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Rocklin Unified School District over the school board’s 4-1 vote earlier this month to implement a parental notification policy that will require district staff to tell parents if their student requests to change their gender identity.
Sep 25, 2023
At least three Rancho Santa Fe School District parents said they received cease-and-desist orders from board Vice President Rosemarie Rohatgi after voicing concerns about her behavior and issues at R. Roger Rowe School.
Sep 25, 2023
A controversial school board president in Perris whose colleagues twice attempted to remove him from office due to inappropriate conduct at public meetings is facing his second prosecution for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Sep 25, 2023
The numbers put an exclamation point on state and county officials’ concerns that the district may struggle in the coming years to pay the bills given the number of schools with half-filled classrooms.
Sep 25, 2023
After 10 a.m., a line of about 100 students at Great Oak High School marched out the front gates with picket signs and pride flags enroute to Patricia H. Birdsall Sports Park across the street.
Sep 25, 2023
The Los Angeles Unified School District school board is considering a resolution that would exclude 346 schools serving its most vulnerable student populations from co-location arrangements with charter schools.
Sep 22, 2023
Moorpark Unified School District trustees voted unanimously Tuesday night to sell the vacant former site of Moorpark Community High School for $6.2 million. The sale is subject to a 120-day escrow, which starts when paperwork is finalized, district spokesperson Daniel Wolowicz said in an email.
Sep 22, 2023
The investigation began last week after a parent of a student from the charter school found text messages between her child and Whiteside, spokesperson Heather Brent said. The parent alerted school officials, who brought the text messages to the attention of detectives.
Sep 22, 2023
The Kentfield School District and its classified support staff union have failed to reach a contract agreement in mediation. The primary sticking point in the mediation session on Sept. 13 was the amount of a salary increase for the current year, both sides said this week. Paid vacation time is also an issue.
Sep 22, 2023
The Rocklin Teachers Professional Association has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Rocklin Unified School District over the school board’s 4-1 vote earlier this month to implement a parental notification policy.
Sep 22, 2023
The Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit firm focused on constitutional law, has announced it will represent the Chino Valley Unified School District in a legal battle brewing with the state over its adoption of a policy that requires schools to out transgender students to their parents.
Sep 22, 2023
Capistrano Unified School District could enact what’s been dubbed a parental notification policy, a procedure to alert parents if their child might be transgender, next month. Trustee Lisa Davis said she plans to present such a policy at the board’s upcoming meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Sep 21, 2023
When it comes to recruiting special education teachers, it’s about “the hustle” and finding creative solutions, Sonoma County special education leaders say. The absence of applicants may stem from a lack of advertisement for open positions, which are often only posted on EdJoin, the most commonly used education job board.
Sep 21, 2023
The recent spate of regulations passed by school boards in conservative pockets of California requiring schools to notify parents if a student does something to indicate gender nonconformity is seeping into campus culture in ways some students describe as dangerous and repressive.
Sep 21, 2023
In the continued fallout of a corruption scandal that has rocked city hall, Anaheim City Council Members last week made a rare decision – going against their own planning commission and denying a conversion of a church into a school.
Sep 21, 2023
In a letter sent to district officials late last week, the head of the Sacramento County Office of Education wrote that county officials had approved the school district’s budget for the current fiscal year and that it appeared the district would maintain its required minimum budget reserve through 2026.
Sep 21, 2023
San Diego Unified’s enrollment is falling by 2% on average each year, even with new students joining the district’s expanding transitional kindergarten grade level, school district officials said last week.
Sep 21, 2023
The Moreno Valley school board has fired Superintendent Martinrex Kedziora. The board voted 3-2 to terminate Kedziora without cause at a special meeting Tuesday, Sept. 19, after three hours of closed-door deliberations.
Sep 21, 2023
A transgender student in Temecula is distributing hundreds of LGBTQ pride flags to protest new school district policies he says target LGBTQ students.
Sep 21, 2023
For the second time in two weeks, the entire audience at a Sunol Glen Unified District School Board meeting emptied the room before the meeting was over – but this time, of their own accord.
Sep 20, 2023
Lynwood operates the district’s only dual immersion Spanish-English curriculum, which allows Spanish speakers to learn English and English speakers to learn Spanish. Enrollment is open to all families within the Lynwood boundary, and those throughout the district and beyond, but it is not required.
Sep 20, 2023
Google is finally extending the lifespan of older Chromebooks after years of limited software support sent thousands of those devices to the trash after just a few years of service.
Sep 20, 2023
Proposed new limits on charter schools’ sharing of campus space with district-run schools have reignited long smoldering tensions in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Sep 20, 2023
A federal judge says a school that follows California state policy by letting students decide whether to tell their parents that they identify as transgender is violating parents’ right to raise their children.
Sep 19, 2023
During its meeting on Thursday, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District board reviewed three options to address seismic deficiencies in nine buildings at Altimira Middle School, including a full retrofit that would cost an estimated $9.3 million.
Sep 19, 2023
Parents in Castro Valley are sharply criticizing school administrators for delaying an investigation amid early signs of improper behavior by a high school music teacher who was charged this week with sexually abusing a student.
Sep 19, 2023
The school’s future has created a conundrum for district officials who recognize the cost to maintain a nearly empty school is hard to justify, yet any talk of relocating, merging or closing any site leads to rolling panic that it would be the first in a series of school closures to address San Francisco Unified’s declining enrollment.
Sep 19, 2023
The North Valley Military Institute — a grades six-12 charter school founded in 2013 — voluntarily surrendered its charter and closed its doors permanently on Aug. 25, leaving nearly 800 students and 180 employees in the Los Angeles area without a place to learn and work.
Sep 19, 2023
A former student at El Roble Intermediate School has sued the Claremont Unified School District, alleging the district didn’t protect him before or after the student was physically assaulted on campus by a bullying classmate.
Sep 19, 2023
The mother of one of the students reported the claims to the San Ramon Valley Unified School District last week, saying that her daughter was taught about white privilege during a choir class and was told by an "equity teacher" that white people have no culture.
Sep 18, 2023
One of the Willie J. Frink College Prep charter school co-founders said she was secretly removed from the Frink school's board after raising questions about its finances, and three educators who had endorsed the school have publicly withdrawn their support over what they called a lack of transparency.
Sep 18, 2023
A list of credit card transactions released by Stockton Unified officials may show that trustees didn't go over their spending limits as earlier reported. What the lists also show is that trustees take advantage of discretionary spending, doling out hundreds of dollars to local restaurants, casinos, coffee shops and bakeries.
Sep 18, 2023
A little more than 24 hours after a Tuesday meeting of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors was Zoom-bombed by people making antisemitic and racist comments, the same thing happened at Wednesday night’s meeting of the Santa Rosa City Schools Board of Trustees.
Sep 18, 2023
The district’s governing board voted to not immediately engage in a search for the district’s next leader. Instead, the board will consider appointing a specific individual to the role at some point in the future.
Sep 18, 2023
Facing a new school year, Carmel Unified School District officials said in a school board meeting last week they are determined to move forward on a path toward improving communication and Title IX policies.
Sep 18, 2023
Senate Bill 765 would relax the waiting period for schools to hire back recently retired teachers. It also would raise the cap on compensation from 50% to 70% of the median final compensation of all retirees who retired in that fiscal year.
Sep 18, 2023
The 49,000-student San Francisco Unified School District began this year with more teacher vacancies than Los Angeles Unified, which serves 480,000 more students than SFUSD and is the second-largest school district in the country.
Sep 18, 2023
The Dry Creek Elementary Joint School District has joined a growing list of California school systems that will notify parents if their child is considering a change in gender identification.
Sep 18, 2023
San Diego Unified students sang, cried and told stories Friday morning as they prepared to raise a flag in honor of “Latinx/e Heritage Month” for the first time in the school district’s history.
Sep 18, 2023
Assembly Bill 249 would require community water systems that serve schools built before 2010 to test all potable water outlets for lead, and to report results to the school, educational agency and state water regulators.
Sep 18, 2023
For years, schools across California have been supported by parents, communities and education funds, groups which have long filled the gaps between what students need and what the state provides. But what happens when no one can afford to pay?
Sep 18, 2023
Within the past week, the Legislature dispatched hundreds of bills, including several dozen affecting TK-12 and higher education. Gov. Gavin Newsom has through Oct. 14 to sign or veto bills he received by Sept. 14.
Sep 15, 2023
After the Sunol Glen Unified School District school board banned the school from flying a Pride flag on Tuesday, parents immediately turned their attention toward a potential recall of the board members, Ryan Jergensen and Linda Hurley, who voted for the resolution, which passed 2-1.
Sep 15, 2023
A resolution affirming rights for LGBTQ students in the Temecula Valley Unified School District fell short by a 3-2 vote Tuesday night, with the board’s conservative majority questioning its necessity, focus and wording.
Sep 15, 2023
As of Sept. 8, a Pajaro Valley Unified School District substitute teacher is no longer employed with the district following a racist, expletive-filled video that was shared on social media.
Sep 15, 2023
Since November 2022, the Fresno Teachers Association and Fresno Unified School District have negotiated contract terms without avail. If there’s no compromise and a strike is called, Fresno Unified has a plan: Pay thousands of substitute teachers $500 each day of the strike.
Sep 15, 2023
Here’s what you need to know about three education bills that lawmakers passed this week and are now heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom. He has until Oct. 14 to sign or veto bills for this year.
Sep 15, 2023
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Escondido Union School District from enforcing a policy designed to ensure transgender students’ privacy, the latest development in an escalating statewide conflict.
Sep 14, 2023
The initial dispute stems from a 2016 agreement between the school district and the Watson Ranch developer, American Canyon 1 LLC. The district was to build an elementary and middle school in American Canyon and would receive funds — called school impact fees — from the developer.
Sep 14, 2023
"In an effort to maintain the focus on students and ensure transparency and public trust, (the) board of trustees have decided to voluntarily turn in their credit cards," district spokesperson Melinda Meza told The Record in a statement on Wednesday. "The district will continue to keep students' achievements and needs at the forefront."
Sep 14, 2023
A bill to bar suspension of students for low-level behavior issues known as "willful defiance" in California’s public schools through 12th grade passed both houses in the Legislature this week. The bill, also known as "Keep Kids in School," passed the state Assembly on a vote of 61-13.
Sep 14, 2023
SB 541 — also known as the Youth Health Equity and Safety Act — would require California public high school and charter schools to provide free condoms to all students starting in the 2024-2025 school year. The bill will also deny retailers from asking for proof of identification when purchasing condoms.
Sep 14, 2023
In a metropolitan area that is starved for more housing, San Diego Unified School District has a precious commodity: acres of extra land that it doesn’t need for schools. So the school district contracts with developers who turn that extra land into apartments and other community amenities.
Sep 14, 2023
Like Linda Plumlee, even the most ambitious students in California’s impoverished rural north often deal with extreme challenges, including poverty and neglect, at higher rates than anywhere else in the state. For more than two years, Plumlee, 18, was essentially homeless.
Sep 14, 2023
Nearly four years after 13-year-old Diego Stolz was bullied, beaten and fatally injured in an attack by two classmates, his family reached a $27-million settlement with the Moreno Valley Unified School District.
Sep 14, 2023
San Jose public schools committed religious discrimination by refusing to recognize the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as an official student group because of its denial of leadership positions to LGBTQ students and their supporters, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Sep 14, 2023
After a contentious board meeting on Tuesday night in which the tiny Sunol district approved a controversial resolution to prevent the town’s single elementary school from flying a Pride flag, some local parents kept their kids home on Wednesday out of fear for their safety, concerned that the hostility would continue.
Sep 14, 2023
Lawmakers wrapping up the legislative session this week have sent dozens of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk seeking his signature, covering weighty topics — guns, drugs, education, environment, discrimination, crime and punishment — and some far out stuff too, from marijuana cafes to magic mushrooms.
Sep 13, 2023
Money is running low, and time is short to help America’s students fully regain the learning they lost since the pandemic. Based on their continued academic struggles and mental health challenges, a report released Wednesday concluded most probably won’t.
Sep 13, 2023
The expense reports provided show that Flores spent a total of $3,185 from October 2020 to December 2022. Each board member has a spending limit of $3,000 per year, according to district spokesperson Melinda Meza. There are guidelines board members must follow when using their credit card.
Sep 13, 2023
In January, Newsom included $1.2 billion in his 2023-24 proposed budget for annual funding of “universal” transitional kindergarten, an initiative aiming to eventually serve all 4-year-olds in California with no birthday cutoffs for enrollment. Windsor School District received just under $3.1 million in annual funding, to be reevaluated every three years.
Sep 13, 2023
Andrea Burns, bargaining chair for the Sausalito District Teachers Association, said the teachers and administration are deadlocked over the amount of wage increases to be offered for the last school year and the current one. All 27 union members voted Monday in favor of authorizing a strike if fact-finding fails to lead to a settlement, she said.
Sep 13, 2023
The Temecula school board approved a policy to limit which flags can be flown on school property, a rule that some said is a way to ban pride flags, at its Tuesday night, Sept. 12, meeting. A similar policy was adopted by the Chino Valley Unified School District board in June.
Sep 13, 2023
Keita Hasegawa, who taught band at Creekside Middle School before moving to the high school in 2021, was charged with seven felonies, including multiple child molestation charges, a count of meeting a minor for lewd purposes and enhancements alleging he targeted a “vulnerable” victim and abused a “position of trust.”
Sep 13, 2023
The Burbank Unified School District School Board named John Paramo its superintendent of schools Thursday, in an outpouring of support for Paramo’s merits in the role. Paramo first was named acting superintendent, then interim superintendent, after the district placed former Superintendent Matt Hill on leave in June.
Sep 13, 2023
California lawmakers passed a bill Monday that would establish a grant program to help more high schools set up Dream Resource Centers. Dream Resource Centers provide counseling on financial aid, immigration law, and other resources to help immigrant students and children of immigrants.
Sep 13, 2023
A meeting in the tiny school district of Sunol, a small unincorporated community south of Pleasanton, descended into chaos Tuesday night as the entire audience was thrown out shortly before the three-person school board passed a resolution that will prevent the district from flying the Pride flag.
Sep 12, 2023
Julie Hupp, president of the Rocklin Unified School District, spoke at a meeting of educators in March 2022 where she called for an increase in “faith-based” union representatives and disparaged the California Teachers Association.
Sep 12, 2023
A proposal to limit what flags can be displayed in Temecula schools is an attempt to censor LGBTQ support, critics argue. The change to the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s ceremonies and observances policy would only allow the U.S. and state flags to be displayed on district property.
Sep 12, 2023
Assembly Bill 370 passed both houses Monday and is headed to the governor’s desk. If signed, the bill will give more opportunities for students to receive the seal of biliteracy, particularly students who learned English as a second language.
Sep 12, 2023
A California judge has issued a temporary restraining order on what Attorney General Rob Bonta calls Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education’s "forced outing policy."
Sep 12, 2023
A coalition of groups representing the Jewish community has filed a lawsuit against the Santa Ana Unified School District alleging the school board adopted anti-Semitic curriculum and did so without allowing for adequate input.
Sep 12, 2023
Once again, the Salesforce Foundation will send hundreds of corporate volunteers and pour millions of dollars into San Francisco schools, money that has bought laptops, playground equipment, maker labs, teacher lounge upgrades, art supplies and more.
Sep 11, 2023
Until very recently, Lisa Fegley was the only credentialed teacher at Carrisa Plains Elementary. She’s often put in 80-hour work weeks educating more than two dozen students spanning six grade levels. Under Fegley’s leadership, students have received 10 minutes of instruction per subject — reading, writing, math and science — each day.
Sep 11, 2023
Because the charter is state-funded based on average daily attendance, the school will lose $11,635 in state per-student subsidies for each student lost, Deputy County Superintendent Kate Lane said. The difference between 218 students and 187 students, therefore, amounts to nearly $361,000 less revenue than the school budgeted.
Sep 11, 2023
The school project — which Oxford said will cost approximately $23 million — will use a modular steel-framed design called CUUBE, a trademark of TLS Choice, a Santa Ana-based contracting company. The structure will be more energy-efficient and cost-effective to maintain, she explained.
Sep 11, 2023
Clovis parents and others spoke for almost an hour at the latest school board meeting, demanding that elected officials create a written policy to notify parents when students at school decide to change their pronouns, names and gender identity.
Sep 11, 2023
The Buckeye Union School District Board of Trustees in El Dorado County heard from community members Wednesday night about the possible adoption of a policy that would require school staff to inform a student’s parents if they become aware that a student is transitioning or experimenting with their gender identity.
Sep 11, 2023
An estimated $71 million is supposed to arrive at San Diego County public schools this school year to pay for arts programs thanks to Proposition 28, a ballot initiative that voters statewide approved last year. But the funding has been stalled in reaching schools due to logistical delays at the state level, officials said.
Sep 11, 2023
In an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, scores of people who attended Bay Area schools in the past half century are taking advantage of a landmark California law to confront educators they say raped or sexually abused them and the administrators who they say didn’t take basic steps to protect them.
Sep 11, 2023
A small group of Los Angeles Unified School District employees collected more than $750,000 combined in extra pay over three years, much of it improperly approved, prompting investigations and leading to the demotions, reassignments or departures of at least 10 employees.
Sep 11, 2023
In a unanimous 4-0 vote, the Orange Unified School District passed a policy Thursday evening that would require school officials to notify parents and guardians if their child asks to use a name or pronoun different than what was assigned at birth.
Sep 11, 2023
A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing. The settlement brings to $8.25 million the amount paid by Redlands Unified School District to Laura Whitehurst’s victims since her 2013 arrest.
Sep 11, 2023
More than 500 California public schools are being audited by the state because they reported that more than 10% of their kindergarten or seventh-grade students were not fully vaccinated last school year. Schools that allow students to attend school without all their vaccinations are in jeopardy of losing funding.
Sep 11, 2023
Superintendent Chris Hurst, in his third year as the district’s superintendent, says he is committed to improving elementary reading test scores by 5% each year, having reached the same goal during the 2022-23 school year.
Sep 08, 2023
On Thursday, the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1078, which his advisers helped craft. The party-line votes of 30-9 in the Senate and 55-16 in the Assembly provided the two-thirds “urgency” margin the governor wanted for the bill to take effect as soon as he signs it.
Sep 08, 2023
California lawmakers on Thursday voted to raise taxes on guns and ammunition and use the money to pay for gun violence prevention programs and security improvements at public schools. California’s proposed tax, if it becomes law, would be 11% — matching the highest tax imposed by the federal government on guns.
Sep 08, 2023
The three new buildings and one renovated structure at Redwood are envisioned as one of two major projects to be financed by a proposed $517 million bond measure that the district is considering for placement on the March 5 ballot.
Sep 08, 2023
Future Norwalk High School students will have a new, state-of-the-art, 43,000-square-foot athletic facility on their campus to participate in sports programs and other activities. The project is estimated to cost about $40 million, Superintendent John Lopez said.
Sep 08, 2023
The board voted to direct CUSD staff to explore the feasibility of placing a general obligation bond on next year’s ballot. It would be the third bond measure since 2012, when Measure E passed, and the successful Measure K in 2016. The estimated request for bond funding, according to the presentation, would be $230,057,960.
Sep 08, 2023
San Francisco Supervisor and Budget Committee Chair Connie Chan announced plans for public hearings on the San Francisco Unified School District and City College’s finances this fall. The Board of Supervisors’ budget committee will examine SFUSD’s spending on education and services.
Sep 08, 2023
Natomas Unified School District is offering money to those willing to become teachers through its Diverse Future Teachers program. The onus of the program is to recruit former school district students who are pursuing a career in education, using money as an incentive to lure them back to Natomas.
Sep 08, 2023
The Coronado Unified School Board approved a resignation settlement agreement Wednesday with one of its high school assistant principals who is related to an ongoing police investigation. The agreement calls for assistant principal Shane Bavis to collect just over $40,000.
Sep 08, 2023
Critics of the Temecula school board’s conservative majority are questioning a $30,000 contract for a communications consultant who is married to a former Inland Republican state senator and are concerned that the district already has a marketing officer working with the media.
Sep 08, 2023
The Orange Unified school board Thursday night became the sixth California school system to require notifying parents when their child identifies as transgender — a decision made after state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against Chino schools for a similar policy.
Sep 08, 2023
Republicans promoting policies that might seem more at home in Florida have won victories on school boards in California. They are part of a pushback by parents, especially on issues around sex and gender, that makes for an unusual coalition.
Sep 08, 2023
The California Legislature approved a bill on Thursday that would allow fines against school boards that ban textbooks based on their inclusion of LGBTQ+ and race lessons — an attempt to halt escalating culture wars playing out in right-leaning enclaves of the liberal state.
Sep 08, 2023
COVID-19 cases are on the rise throughout Los Angeles Unified and the county. Public health experts are urging caution while school officials are looking to keep children in the classroom for their academic progress and emotional well-being.
Sep 08, 2023
The Rocklin Unified School District Board of Trustees voted 4-1 early Thursday morning to require teachers and staff to alert a student’s parents if they request to use different pronouns, go by a different name, or otherwise indicate that they are reconsidering their gender identity.
Sep 07, 2023
Ventura County school districts are split on vape detectors, a high-tech response to underage e-cigarette use on school campuses. Other local districts swore off the alarms altogether over concerns about their effectiveness, but District Superintendent Kelli Hays said the $1,500 detectors were a step "outside of the box."
Sep 07, 2023
The Orange Unified School Board is set to consider a policy that could inform parents their children are transgender as the California Attorney General is mounting a legal challenge against a similar policy at a Chino Valley school district.
Sep 07, 2023
As a new school year gets underway in California, districts are desperately trying to lure thousands of missing, tardy and truant students back to the classroom in what many view as a pivotal moment for education in California.
Sep 07, 2023
A judge on Wednesday halted a Southern California school district from requiring parents to be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school.
Sep 07, 2023
More than 500 California public schools are being audited by the state because they reported that more than 10% of their kindergarten or seventh-grade students were not fully vaccinated last school year.
Sep 06, 2023
The district was made aware Monday night of four Delta High School students reportedly making hateful gestures at an outside location, according to Superintendent Kathy Wright. She said the investigation began “first thing” Tuesday morning.
Sep 06, 2023
High school senior Martha Hernandez was born in Baja California, Mexico, and came to the U.S. when she was 10 years old, in fifth grade. She was still considered an English learner when she entered high school, based on California’s test of English proficiency.
Sep 05, 2023
“As of June we’ve identified 2,235 students as youth experiencing homelessness,” said Donnie Everett, the district’s assistant superintendent of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. “That is roughly about 22% of our total student population.”
Sep 05, 2023
San Rafael High is among schools in Marin that are already on track to fulfill a state mandate to have ethnic studies as a graduation requirement by the 2025-26 school year. Under the mandate, students may meet the requirement for graduation by taking one semester of ethnic studies during their high school years.
Sep 05, 2023
While negotiations were in limbo last year due to all the changes, contract agreements have now been reached with teachers, who received 8% raises retroactive for the 2022-23 school year and 5% increases for the current 2023-24 year, Superintendent Laura Shain said.
Sep 05, 2023
Discussions about the possibility of a bond measure for the November 2024 general election ballot will be a topic during Wednesday’s Chico Unified School District special Board of Education meeting/workshop. Funds generated from the 2016 Measure K bond have just about been exhausted.
Sep 05, 2023
Months before the emotional and contentious meetings in the Chino Valley, Murrieta Valley, Temecula Valley and Orange school districts, a similar policy came before the Riverside County school board.
Sep 05, 2023
The course was launched in August at the Anaheim Union High School District as a virtual course through Cambridge Virtual Academy, marking a historic moment for Korean American studies in high schools across the U.S.
Sep 05, 2023
The Spreckels Union School District, which encompasses an elementary and middle school in the Salinas area, paid nearly $100,000 to a Monterey County mother and daughter over an alleged violation of the parent’s 14th Amendment right to raise her child.
Sep 05, 2023
The question seems simple enough: How much do San Francisco teachers make compared with educators in other districts across the state? The answer is at the center of ongoing contract negotiations between the district and the teachers union.
Sep 05, 2023
The effort to recall Board President Rick Ledesma and Trustee Madison Miner began after the board called a special meeting in January to fire Superintendent Gunn Marie Hansen and place an assistant superintendent on paid leave.
Sep 01, 2023
Concerned Stockton Unified School District parents and staff gathered Tuesday evening at the School for Adults for a town hall meeting to address staffing, retention and the state's PBIS discipline strategy.
Sep 01, 2023
Democratic state officials in California are taking a leading role in fighting the education culture wars at the local level, just as conservatives launch an effort to take the same issues directly to voters.
Sep 01, 2023
In recent years, the state has poured billions of dollars into a dizzying array of programs under the banner of career education. The only problem with that, said Gov. Gavin Newsom, is that there is no cohesion between these programs.
Sep 01, 2023
Rucker Johnson, who researched the state’s decade-old school finance overhaul known as the Local Control Funding Formula, concluded it does matter, especially for the highest needs students targeted for help by the equity-based funding.
Sep 01, 2023
Yahshua Robinson, a student at Canyon Lake Middle School, died Tuesday after collapsing while participating in physical education class during triple-digit temperatures, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.
Aug 31, 2023
Maite Iturri was approved this month as the new superintendent for Sonoma County’s third largest school district, Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified. Iturri has a three-year contract and will be paid $230,000.
Aug 31, 2023
The big question looming over the future of San Francisco public schools this summer was whether or not the district would close or merge schools as it nears bankruptcy due to a melange of low enrollment, fiscal mismanagement and educator vacancies.
Aug 31, 2023
One day before classes were set to resume, teachers in the Sacramento City Unified School District received a 10% raise retroactive to July 2022, the result of an uncharacteristically speedy negotiation between the district and its teachers union that was announced Wednesday.
Aug 31, 2023
Parents have been complaining about poor air conditioning at Crescent Elementary, located in Anaheim Hills, since the start of the school year on Aug. 16, and concerns have only risen with the temperature.
Aug 31, 2023
Poor educational outcomes, financial mismanagement, failure to secure classroom space and claims of possible fraud — these are among the many criticisms leveled at North Valley Military Institute (NVMI), which is ceasing operations this fall.
Aug 30, 2023
“It is astounding that the County of Marin sat on the sidelines for a year, and, if it is now their intent to join FSACC in a last minute pressure campaign against the district,” she said.
Aug 30, 2023
The San Francisco school board started to map out an overhaul of the district Tuesday evening to address nearly every aspect of how it operates, including how it staff schools and where it spends money.
Aug 30, 2023
As a wave of California public school districts explore policies around students and gender identity, the extent to which state law grants young people privacy rights from their parents has come under a sharp spotlight.
Aug 30, 2023
Jessica Konen sued the Spreckels Union School District, claiming teachers at Buena Vista Middle School had secretly encouraged her daughter Alicia, then 11, to change her gender identity.
Aug 29, 2023
At its board meeting Thursday, the district’s board approved a mutual separation agreement with its superintendent, Kari Yeater. She will step down effective Aug. 31. At its Thursday meeting, North Monterey County Unified’s board approved a “satisfactory or better” job evaluation of Yeater for the 2022-23 school year and a contractually required pay raise.
Aug 29, 2023
Former Montebello Unified Superintendent Anthony Martinez is trying to force the district to cover his legal costs related to litigation alleging he promised a man money, training and help with citizenship in exchange for sex.
Aug 29, 2023
Sonora police stated they were notified by school staff about 2:15 p.m. Friday that an unknown man was just at the campus trying to sign out a student, though he was not listed in the student’s paperwork as an authorized person to pick up the student.
Aug 29, 2023
Overpaid administrators, flawed payroll policies, and dilapidated facilities are preventing the San Francisco Unified School District from hiring qualified teachers, leaving schools with more than 600 staff vacancies at the start of the academic year, according to the union representing The City's public school educators.
Aug 29, 2023
Record-high chronic school absentee rates in California show little sign of returning to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon, and data shows that’s especially true for kindergarten students.
Aug 29, 2023
As a wave of California public school districts explore policies around students and gender identity, the extent to which state law grants young people privacy rights from their parents has come under a sharp spotlight.
Aug 29, 2023
The Los Angeles Unified School District is on the verge of settling a case initiated by 14 girls who alleged they were molested by a former teacher’s assistant, Lino Cabrera, at North Hollywood Elementary School, Patch reported.
Aug 29, 2023
Backlash is brewing against a Rocklin school board president over her calls for "Christ-centered" parents to join school advisory committees. Her calls come as those new parent committees start helping select school curricula.
Aug 29, 2023
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Monday against the Chino school district, ordering an end to a policy that requires notifying parents if their children change their gender identity, alleging it is discriminatory and violates civil rights and privacy laws.
Aug 29, 2023
California’s culture wars escalated Monday as the state sued a school district over its transgender student policy, and a parents’ group took the first step toward placing a trio of initiatives on next year’s ballot that would restrict protections for transgender youth.
Aug 29, 2023
Letty Kraus knows her way around the arts ed world. She started teaching dance at the ripe old age of 15, while she was still in high school. Now Kraus uses her passion for the performing arts as director of the California County Superintendents’ statewide arts initiative.
Aug 28, 2023
The driver of a vehicle that drifted directly into the path of a Kern High School District bus carrying a varsity football team Thursday night died at the scene of the crash, and the bus driver and two passengers were taken to Kern Medical, the California Highway Patrol confirmed Friday.
Aug 28, 2023
Two students had been hospitalized Aug. 17 after an on-campus stabbing in broad daylight, during school hours. It was the second major violent incident of the barely-begun school year.
Aug 28, 2023
Willow Scharf wanted her senior year of high school to be “normal.” No fear of judgment or attack. “We are children,” said Scharf, 17. “We deserve a fun high school experience.”
Aug 28, 2023
Sidelined in Sacramento, California conservatives went back to school. They won school board seats last fall and are now working to advance what they see as an agenda that respects parents’ rights.
Aug 28, 2023
Jackie Goldberg, the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s school board, announced earlier this month that she will retire in December 2024 after completing her current term.
Aug 25, 2023
Yulena Campos said that this incident reminded her of the fatal stabbing at Stagg High School last year. Three months after the stabbing, at the July 26 board of trustees meeting, a consultant told the Stockton Unified board that their school site safety plans were outdated or out of compliance with state law.
Aug 25, 2023
According to the district’s updated search timeline, the board will select and interview candidates in closed session meetings. The monthly base salary for Pacific Grove Unified’s superintendent was $22,827 as of May 31.
Aug 25, 2023
The Tamalpais Union High School District board unanimously approved a schematic design this week for about $90 million worth of new construction on the campus of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley. Construction on the project, and on other work at the district’s high schools, is dependent on voter approval of an estimated $571 million bond measure.
Aug 25, 2023
The big issue, of course, is money — $10 million — in order for the school to develop the site and build. Board members voted 4-0 at Wednesday’s meeting in the Marigold Elementary School multi-purpose room to take no actions on the options district officials presented at the meeting.
Aug 25, 2023
Record-high chronic absentee rates in California show little sign of returning to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon, and data shows that’s especially true for kindergarten students.
Aug 24, 2023
Stockton Unified School District won't approve its seventh charter school in four years.
Aug 24, 2023
While the Carmel Unified School District searches for its next superintendent, Sharon Ofek will serve as the interim superintendent, the board announced last week.
Aug 24, 2023
Starting this week, staff and students at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon are tackling the latest frontier in discrimination: “ableism.”
Aug 24, 2023
Rather than scrap two years and $1.1 million worth of work, the El Monte Union High School District will restart waylaid plans to expand and renovate the district’s Rosemead campus to serve as a regional hub for adult education, including a new home for the district’s adult students with disabilities.
Aug 24, 2023
After an eight-month saga, Ernest “Ernie” Gonzalez has been chosen to be the new superintendent of the Orange Unified School District.The OUSD announced the unanimous selection during its Aug. 17 board meeting.
Aug 24, 2023
Some teachers view AI as a way to enhance their work and lessen their burdens. Others remain torn on the issue, knowing they will have to be vigilant in checking their students’ work to stop plagiarism.
Aug 24, 2023
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a statement Wednesday, Aug. 23, rebuking the board’s decision, along with other Southern California school boards, to approve a policy requiring parents to be told if their child identifies as transgender.
Aug 24, 2023
The Temecula Valley school board voted early Wednesday, Aug. 23, to approve a policy to notify parents if their students are transgender, becoming the latest Southern California district to do so.
Aug 23, 2023
The Bakersfield City School District's music program is growing, and the district's music teachers are performing in 33 schools this week and next to inspire and draw more students into the program.
Aug 23, 2023
The Marin County Office of Education is rejecting a plan to purchase a Fairfax property that houses one of the county’s few subsidized child care centers.
Aug 23, 2023
Even though she’s getting started on her 16th academic year at the helm of the Chico Unified School District, Kelly Staley said she views every year as her “rookie” season.
Aug 23, 2023
A mass of protestors wearing black and white “leave our kids alone” t-shirts were met with a group of rainbow clad LGBTQ+ allies in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Aug. 22, as the debate over how gender and sexual identity should be taught in school continued to rage.
Aug 23, 2023
The Temecula Valley Unified school board on Tuesday night, Aug. 22, is discussing a policy to notify parents if their students are transgender, becoming the latest Southern California board to consider such rules.
Aug 23, 2023
Summertime may be the carefree highlight of the year for school-aged children, but it’s been a turbulent season for local school boards, especially in Southern California.
Aug 23, 2023
Amid the ongoing national teacher shortage, West Contra Costa Unified started its second week of the 2023-24 school year with 80 teacher vacancies, which may lead to shuffling teachers during the first few weeks of school.
Aug 23, 2023
About 150 demonstrators who oppose LGBTQ+ education marched on Monday from City Hall to the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, where two counterprotesters were taken into custody as dozens of officers kept the opposing groups apart after heated exchanges.
Aug 23, 2023
This fall, in a courtroom in Oakland, lawyers will reexamine the pandemic’s impact on K-12 schools in California — a subject many people might prefer to forget about but can’t because, like Covid itself, the effects are inescapable.
Aug 22, 2023
The future of a charter school that has already been struck down once by Stockton Unified School District and San Joaquin County Office of Education trustees will soon be sealed.
Aug 22, 2023
The district will hold two community open sessions this week for the public to learn more about the search process and offer input on what they’d like to see in the district’s next leader.
Aug 22, 2023
The school has long sought to get its own campus and had hoped to get approval — and financial backing — at Wednesday’s CUSD board of trustees regular meeting.
Aug 22, 2023
All staff, including teachers, counselors, food service and transportation teams will be outfitted with a wearable badge designed to allow them to quickly and appropriately respond to any situation.
Aug 22, 2023
There are currently 11 independent public school districts and a public charter school in the county that each have developed their own safety plan, which the report stated can complicate coordination and communication with law enforcement and first responders.
Aug 22, 2023
Teachers and staff members in Orange Unified School District may be forced to inform parents if their children identify as transgender or request to be treated as a gender that differs from their biological sex. The school board first considered the proposal at its meeting last Thursday with dozens of public comments on both sides of the issue.
Aug 22, 2023
On Monday, a group of 200 or so concerned parents, grandparents, and community members from up and down the state gathered to fight back against what they see as the attack on parents’ rights — led by Gov. Gavin Newsom — and to lobby against several bills making their way through the legislature.
Aug 22, 2023
Greg Bailey, who was the drama teacher at Temecula Valley High School, was put on paid leave after a parent complained to the school board that her daughter was “forced” to read a play that contained sexually provocative content.
Aug 22, 2023
Amid the ongoing national teacher shortage, West Contra Costa Unified started its second week of the 2023-24 school year with 80 teacher vacancies, which may lead to shuffling teachers during the first few weeks of school.
Aug 22, 2023
Senate Bill 394 would require the California Energy Commission to create a statewide plan to help school districts integrate climate resilience and sustainability into their master plans.
Aug 22, 2023
An Inland Assemblymember’s bill, intended to prevent school boards from banning textbooks that teach California’s ethnic diversity and cultural history, is in a holding pattern after a state Senate committee vote Monday, Aug. 21.
Aug 22, 2023
Kena Hazelwood gathered two dozen health teachers days before San Francisco Unified started this year for what district officials feel is vital training: how to support LGBTQ students amid worrying rates of bullying, harassment and suicide among them.
Aug 22, 2023
GOP-backed school board trustees wrested majority control of a small batch of Golden State school boards last fall in races that were ostensibly nonpartisan. The victors are now importing policies on race and gender that would seem more at home in Florida than in California.
Aug 22, 2023
Los Angeles Unified School District closed to launch an expansive review at some 1,000 campuses for potential storm damage, while San Diego Unified School District postponed what would have been the first day of school, leaving hundreds of thousands of children and parents with a last-minute day off for the first storm day in recent memory.
Aug 21, 2023
The district selected Derek Knell, a former member of the Novato school board, for the new post. Knell, a businessman who sat on the Novato school board from 2005 until last year, will receive an annual salary of $117,024.
Aug 21, 2023
Pressure campaigns, largely led by conservative parent groups, have successfully lobbied school boards to out students’ gender-affirming requests, censor curriculums, and ban books and Pride flags. In some cases, school board clashes have become intense and even violent.
Aug 21, 2023
Climate change is an issue we are all familiar with — but for many schools in northern California, it's becoming an issue they need to take head-on. From Sacramento City Unified to Modesto City Schools, many districts are now trying to keep up with changes in the climate by making their own changes.
Aug 21, 2023
Several school districts and college campuses will be closed Monday due to the continuing impacts of Tropical Storm Hilary. Below is a list of known closures but there are likely several others. Please check with your local school district before heading out in the rain.
Aug 21, 2023
Six rooms, each a different story, holding the secrets of a different child and a distinct type of abuse. “Some secrets should be told,” is inked on posters and flyers. The Lisa Project exhibit does exactly that.
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.