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Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 11, 2026

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

Sep 10, 2026

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

Sep 10, 2026

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

Sep 10, 2026

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

Sep 09, 2026

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

Sep 09, 2026

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

Sep 09, 2026

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

Sep 09, 2026

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

Sep 09, 2026

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

Sep 08, 2026

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

Sep 08, 2026

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

Sep 08, 2026

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

Sep 08, 2026

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

Sep 08, 2026

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

Sep 08, 2026

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

Sep 04, 2026

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

Sep 04, 2026

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

Sep 04, 2026

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

Sep 04, 2026

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

Sep 04, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 03, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 02, 2026

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

Sep 01, 2026

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

Sep 01, 2026

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

Sep 01, 2026

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

Sep 01, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 31, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 28, 2026

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

Aug 27, 2026

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

Aug 27, 2026

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

Aug 27, 2026

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 26, 2026

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

Aug 25, 2026

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

Aug 25, 2026

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

Aug 25, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 24, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 21, 2026

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

Aug 20, 2026

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

Aug 20, 2026

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

Aug 20, 2026

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

Aug 20, 2026

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

Aug 19, 2026

The district marked the occasion with a celebration on Monday. The $1 million structure replaces a wooden crossing built in the 1940s, said Tyler Graff, the district superintendent.

Aug 19, 2026

The labor agreement between Sacramento City Unified School District and its teachers union that stirred weeks of conflict among local and state education officials was formally rescinded — but not before one of its most consequential provisions was set in motion, and that process has continued to move forward.

Aug 19, 2026

While families prepare for the first day of classes, it’s important for California drivers to know the laws when it comes to driving around children, including speeding through school zones.

Aug 19, 2026

Monday was the first day of a new bell schedule at the Placer County school, and the first test of a lunch period that now runs 12 minutes — the shortest in a survey of schools in the state. Last year, the Monday break was 20 minutes.

Aug 19, 2026

Legal challenges flared this week over an Inland Empire school district’s alleged removal of library books and, separately, on its efforts to require parental notification on student gender identity — policies strongly supported by the school board president, Sonja Shaw, a leading contender to become the next state schools superintendent.

Aug 18, 2026

Monday, Aug. 17, marked a second transitional year for Sonoma County’s largest school district, where many students, families and staff once again stepped into new educational environments shaped by the unprecedented closure of six schools over two years as the district wrestled with a multimillion dollar deficit and the threat of a state takeover.

Aug 18, 2026

MacArthur Park projects $3.26 million in revenues and $3.10 million in expenditures in 2026-27, $3.81 in revenues and $3.73 in expenditures in 2027-28 and $4.49 in revenues and $4.23 in expenditures in 2028-29.

Aug 18, 2026

A group of unionized American Sign Language interpreters at Clovis Unified reached their first collective bargaining agreement with the school district after two years of negotiations.

Aug 18, 2026

A group of parents and former students of the Palo Alto Unified School District filed a civil rights lawsuit against the district regarding a 2025 school-sponsored field trip to a mosque where students learned about Islam.

Aug 17, 2026

Voters in the Summerville Elementary School District will decide in November whether to approve a $3.4 million bond measure aimed at funding repairs and improvements at the district’s Tuolumne campus.

Aug 17, 2026

At its June 18 meeting, the district’s board unanimously passed the projected 2026-27 budget, which estimates the district will have $71.8 million in revenues and $73.7 million in expenditures, resulting in a deficit of $1.9 million.

Aug 17, 2026

The changes come as the district looks to curb an escalating cost curve for special education, which shot up 70% from 2016 to 2025, to nearly $72 million, comprising an ever-larger chunk of the overall budget.

Aug 17, 2026

A third lawsuit has been filed against Santa Paula Unified School District, alleging that the district failed to protect a McKevett Elementary School student from a counselor’s sexual abuse.

Aug 17, 2026

School is back in session for Sacramento City Unified School District students, but an ongoing financial crisis continues to loom large.

Aug 17, 2026

At a June Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education meeting in the wake of a failed effort to consolidate schools, trustees, weary from weeks of controversy and pushback over a process that many felt was unfair, reflected on what went wrong.

Aug 17, 2026

For some families, that could mean letting a child commute to class without an adult for the first time. Is there a legal age requirement for children to walk to and from school alone in California?

Aug 17, 2026

As students return to school Monday, the state’s third-largest district must contend with rising special education costs, reduced mental health staffing and a lingering deficit.

Aug 14, 2026

Though timed to coincide with the beginning of the school year, Humboldt County Office of Education Superintendent Michael Davies-Hughes says the order will have no bearing on the county’s school vaccination policies or requirements for the year.

Aug 14, 2026

The Ojai Unified School District still wants to build apartments for its employees at its vacant former headquarters, but it no longer plans to ask taxpayers to pay for them.

Aug 14, 2026

Just in time for the new school year, Fresnans will start noticing reduced speed limits in school zones throughout the city.

Aug 14, 2026

Orange County had nearly 78,000 English learners – students whose primary language is not English – enrolled in public and private schools in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Aug 14, 2026

As students returned to campuses earlier this week to begin a new school year, the district’s worst-case scenario has not come to pass, although its apparent financial reprieve remains fragile.

Aug 14, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the final state budget of his tenure last month, allocating a record $128 billion for public schools and community colleges under Proposition 98.

Aug 14, 2026

Three years after voters passed an ambitious arts education funding measure, California’s K-12 schools were supposed to be awash in dance, music, theater and fine arts. But some schools are returning their arts money to the state.

Aug 14, 2026

As California students head back to school this month, new policies will strip many of them of their cell phones, with the devices off and out of reach for most or all of their time on campus.

Aug 14, 2026

When Alma Mendoza Tlachi’s work permit expired while she waited for the federal government to process her renewal, she had to stop teaching her high school students and could not return to work over the summer or prepare her classroom for the new school year.

Aug 13, 2026

Pasadena Unified School District trustees spent the end of the last school year fending off calls that they had been maneuvering behind closed doors to push a school merger plan through. The process unraveled with acknowledgements that some discussion around reshaping the district would be needed given the financial and enrollment realities facing PUSD.

Aug 13, 2026

With the Petaluma City Schools traditional-calendar school year kicking off Wednesday morning, district leaders were glad to have announced the restoration of more than a dozen staff positions ahead of time — including all of the district’s elementary and junior high school student advisors, a school therapist and arts teachers.

Aug 13, 2026

Piner High School is now the home of a new, two-story approximately $24.4 million classroom building that will house more than 300 seventh- and eighth-graders for the first time.

Aug 13, 2026

This school year, for the first time, comes a statewide crackdown in classrooms on cell phones in California. Some schools across the state already started adopting these policies last school year, and some even had existing restrictions on the books.

Aug 13, 2026

Student enrollment in the Los Angeles Unified School District, along with many districts throughout California, has been in a steady state of freefall — a trend with potentially dire consequences if it continues.

Aug 13, 2026

The Twin Rivers Unified school board voted Tuesday night to issue notices of violation to Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools for failing to file financial audits for the 2024-25 school year.

Aug 13, 2026

Los Angeles Unified School District students returned to school Wednesday amid lingering concerns about immigration enforcement and environmental safety, with district officials reassuring families that campuses were safe and ready for the new school year.

Aug 12, 2026

Not all soil at Pasadena public school campuses’ outdoor areas will be restored and opened by the time school starts next week after a summer-long project to clean up areas found to be contaminated after the Eaton fire, officials said Tuesday.

Aug 12, 2026

This fall, Californians will vote in just one nonpartisan statewide race. Of all the contests on the ballot, it’s shaping up to be perhaps the most partisan.

Aug 12, 2026

Teacher Raquel Chacon put out copies of Algebra 1 workbooks for each of her seventh-graders. Justin Cole inspected school uniforms set aside for unhoused students. Florian Ospina, in the school library, made sure no chess pieces were missing.

Aug 12, 2026

Last week, Sacramento City Unified leaders thought they had solved the district’s financial problems with a plan to save $158 million, in part by dipping into retiree health benefits, to stave off bankruptcy.

Aug 11, 2026

Circo is taking over as Cinnabar undergoes a major transition. The local district, located at 286 Skillman Lane, has traditionally offered transitional kindergarten through eighth grade education, but the middle school offerings ended at the end of the last school year. This week the district begins its first year as a TK-6 school.

Aug 11, 2026

“They’re forcing us to choose between following the law and sending our kids to school, or losing my job,” she said. “And then how am I going to have a roof over my head? How am I going to have a car?”

Aug 11, 2026

California’s state superintendent on Monday rejected an appeal by the Sacramento City Unified School District, while warning the Sacramento County Office of Education that the state could intervene if the county makes decisions that worsen the district’s financial problems.

Aug 11, 2026

The Oakland school board decided in a hastily called meeting last week to put a parcel tax measure on the November ballot, but in an as yet unexplained twist, district officials didn’t submit the paperwork to Alameda County election officials by Friday’s deadline.

Aug 11, 2026

In late July at UC Merced, a classroom of middle school students split into teams for a game of Jeopardy. One problem: if the base of a 12-foot ladder rests 3 feet from a wall, how high up the wall does the ladder reach?

Aug 10, 2026

The Napa Valley Unified School District is in the midst of finishing up summer facility improvements at 14 Napa campuses largely funded by Measure B, a $230 million school bond narrowly approved by Napa voters in November 2024.

Aug 10, 2026

The billing plan delivered quicker repayments during its first year and so helped to maintain mental health support despite budget pressures, the report states. Reimbursements took 30 to 90 days in the program, compared to 12 to 18 months in the former school-based billing system.

Aug 10, 2026

Ahead of the school year, Central Unified is bringing all staff members together for a professional development training for the first time — though the location raised a few questions and “deep concerns” by at least one employee of the school district in Fresno.

Aug 10, 2026

Before the school year starts on Monday, Aug. 10, the new Frank and Irene Palomino Elementary School name was unveiled with a community celebration. The Garden Grove Unified School District has changed the name of Rosita Elementary School to pay tribute to the Palomino family’s legacy.

Aug 10, 2026

When San Jose Unified School District decided to shutter five elementary schools earlier this year, officials made several promises to ensure a smooth transition for families with students set to attend new campuses.

Aug 10, 2026

For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, California has released school-by-school data showing how many English learners became proficient in English, giving parents, educators and policymakers a new way to see how well schools are helping students become proficient in English.

Aug 07, 2026

With the school year less than a week away, United Teachers Los Angeles have sent a demand letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District calling for urgent measures to protect students affected by the Lineage Logistics warehouse fire.

Aug 07, 2026

A trip to Guatemala. A $322 “adult bean bag chair.” A $345 robot vacuum. A $538 Zen art decoration. Mouthwash from a hotel gift shop. These are some of the hundreds of credit card purchases made over eight years by school leaders at the Albert Einstein Academies charter school in South Park.

Aug 07, 2026

Former Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Austin Beutner has escalated his opposition to legislation he says would “gut” Proposition 28, the 2022 initiative he authored that promises $1 billion annually to expand arts education, vowing a legal challenge if the bill succeeds.

Aug 06, 2026

The Bakersfield City School District's governing board is currently working on tightening board policies addressing adult-student interactions and the district's efforts to maintain appropriate professional boundaries.

Aug 06, 2026

The Sacramento City Unified School Board sent a letter to State Superintendent Tony Thurmond today asking him to intervene in the district’s ongoing budget infighting.

Aug 06, 2026

Orange County schools are set to receive about $35.5 million a year in ongoing state funding as part of California’s new $1 billion annual budget allocation for the Community Schools Partnership Program — a commitment local advocates say will bolster academic support, family engagement and student services across the region.

Aug 06, 2026

Oakland’s costly teachers contract is on shaky legal ground, according to conflict of interest experts, with a school board member’s ties to the state teachers union threatening the deal — despite millions of dollars in retroactive raises already paid to district educators.

Aug 06, 2026

Several new California laws took effect ahead of the 2026-27 school year, bringing changes that will impact students, parents and teachers across the state.

Aug 06, 2026

Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Phone-Free School Act, kids in California are about to find out the effects of the bill once they return from summer break.

Aug 06, 2026

California legislators returned from their summer recess this week for the final stretch of the legislative season, with the fate of several education bills still undecided.

Aug 05, 2026

The Oxnard School District faces a lawsuit alleging it failed to take action upon learning of the misconduct of a Christa McAuliffe School employee who is accused of sending sexually explicit text messages to a fifth-grader.

Aug 05, 2026

Like many California school districts, PCS is facing budgetary challenges amid uncertain funding, and district’s leadership was forced to cut $6 million from its budget for the upcoming school year — a factor cited by the previous superintendent, Matthew Harris, for his departure after five years at the helm.

Aug 05, 2026

In California, one of the most expensive places to live in the country, the San Diego Unified School District said this year that it would turn six sites occupied by former administrative buildings into roughly 2,500 apartments for teachers, the largest project of its kind in the country.

Aug 05, 2026

Sacramento City Unified School District’s fiscal turmoil intensified as the district board voted 5-0 at a special meeting on Tuesday to appeal a recent Sacramento County Office of Education decision to the state superintendent.

Aug 05, 2026

Last month, a state law requiring every school district to adopt a policy limiting or prohibiting cellphone use went into effect. Some Stanislaus County districts have approved new cellphone policies that meet the state’s expectations, while others already had policies in place.

Aug 05, 2026

In a confidential letter that preceded the June resignation of Los Angeles Unified Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the school board accused its heralded leader of unprofessional conduct, unsatisfactory performance and “violation of or refusal to obey” state laws or school district regulations.

Aug 05, 2026

Black student achievement continues to rise in Los Angeles Unified — and exceeded the district’s average growth in last year’s Smarter Balanced Assessments, according to preliminary district data.

Aug 05, 2026

A Sacramento City Unified plan to avoid fiscal insolvency was rejected Friday by the Sacramento County Office of Education.

Aug 04, 2026

Modesto City Schools and the Modesto Teachers Association have been embroiled in labor negotiations since the fall of 2025. After reaching an impasse over salary increases and healthcare contributions, a state mediator will now intervene.

Aug 04, 2026

The West Contra Costa School District is “temporarily relocating” John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond after the discovery of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, known as, PCE, under the school site, Superintendent Cheryl Cotton announced.

Aug 04, 2026

California teachers had some big wins in this year’s state budget, including about $700 million for stipends and training, and $218 million to support paid pregnancy leave.

Aug 03, 2026

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said.

Aug 03, 2026

The statue — which was initially donated to the district and cost roughly $20,000 to remove, according to an agenda report — is now in storage. If the district wishes to donate the bust to an archive, for example, the board would need to vote again.

Aug 03, 2026

The Tam High Foundation, like many other foundations serving Marin public schools, raises money to support academic enrichment, arts and student wellness programs. The offerings include Bridge the Gap tutoring, Young Scholars Academy mentoring and specialized classroom equipment.

Aug 03, 2026

In school lunchrooms around Lake Tahoe, students line up for a red, hairy fruit called a rambutan. On pozole day, they shout, “We want more!” And when the salad bar runs dry, they ask the staff to refill it – over and over.

Aug 03, 2026

Teachers in California’s 11th-largest school district have filed a petition that could end Clovis Unified’s 66-year run as the largest school district west of the Mississippi River without a teachers union.

Aug 03, 2026

Teacher Deborah Lee said she was blindsided when county school officials shut down SCALE Leadership Academy – East in June after revealing several concerns about the school, including business relationships it had with religious programs and corporations managed by the school’s founder. unties.

Aug 03, 2026

Los Angeles Unified School District leaders say they are confident they can persuade county officials that the district can avoid a projected cash shortfall and remain under local control, and are preparing for budget cuts, possible furloughs and school consolidation.

Aug 03, 2026

Students returning to school may not have noticed it. As the years pass, they hang out with the same friends or play on the same sports teams. But something’s been changing. There are fewer students.

Jul 31, 2026

Despite strong calls to try again after an excruciating near miss in June, Novato Unified School District trustees agreed to hold off on placing a parcel tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot to build community support.

Jul 31, 2026

When Paradise Unified School District board member Rich Gingery Jr. first saw the Paradise Elementary School campus after the 2018 Camp Fire, he said he was speechless. Now, nearly eight years later, his reaction is entirely different.

Jul 31, 2026

Fresno Unified was recently the subject of a grand jury probe, and while the query prompted some recommendations, it also shed light on some controversy surrounding district payouts.

Jul 31, 2026

As tensions rise with the Sacramento County Office of Education, Sacramento City Unified is pressing ahead with a new fiscal sustainability plan aimed at avoiding insolvency and preserving local control.

Jul 31, 2026

A last-ditch legislative attempt to help California school districts keep problematic teachers out of the classroom has collapsed following opposition from unions and the state teacher licensing agency that a proposed searchable database would violate privacy and subject educators to unfair treatment.

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.