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FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.
May 14, 2026
Conflicting over the district’s contribution to employees’ healthcare benefits, Ventura Unified, Ventura Unified Education Association and Ventura Education Support Professionals Association declared an impasse May 7.
May 14, 2026
One of the nation’s three major credit rating agencies has downgraded Sacramento City Unified School District’s bond rating, citing the district’s poor budget management and uncertainty over its plans to rebuild reserves.
May 14, 2026
The Board of Trustees of the San Diego Unified School District on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve agreements that will allow all staff members who would otherwise be laid off an opportunity to accept new positions within the district.
May 14, 2026
The Alvord school board has reduced the number of layoff notices it gave to administrators, but it’s not clear how many teachers, if any, will be laid off for next school year.
May 14, 2026
An Inland Empire high school water polo player’s mother is calling on two school board members to resign after accusing them of “sexualizing” members of the boys water polo team who were photographed wearing Speedos at a school baseball game.
May 14, 2026
A California law designed to help survivors of childhood sexual abuse seek justice is now creating difficult financial and legal challenges for school districts across the state.
May 14, 2026
Nearly a dozen school districts across California are being recognized for their significant improvements in both reading and math compared to their peers. It comes as the state lags behind others in its academic growth, according to newly released findings.
May 14, 2026
Facing a growing budget deficit, Fresno Unified School District, California’s third-largest, finalized hundreds of layoff notices this week, eliminating positions tied to mental health, foster youth services and chronic absenteeism interventions.
May 13, 2026
Fresno Unified trustees have given the green light to move forward with the school district’s proposed layoffs and “bumps” ahead of the 2026-27 school year. The board approved two resolutions to reduce or eliminate certain certificated and classified roles during a special meeting Monday afternoon.
May 13, 2026
A Pasadena Unified School District committee has recommended that no schools merge into others, a big victory for parents and other stakeholders who for months have decried a “consolidation” process they said would negatively impact students and neighborhoods and which itself they said was tainted.
May 13, 2026
Across the country, the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession — a slide in the reading skills of students that predates pandemic school disruption, but there are several relative bright spots in California that include the Modesto, Compton and Los Angeles school districts, researchers say.
May 13, 2026
Look for three key numbers affecting TK-12 funding when Gov. Gavin Newsom releases a much-anticipated revision of 2026-27 state budget on Thursday, known as the “May revision.” One big, one small and one huge.
May 13, 2026
State leaders’ recent attention to early literacy has led to funding and new programs to help close the literacy achievement gap. But math? The state hasn’t focused on it. And that neglect shows.
May 13, 2026
Students attending Compton Unified School District and Modesto City Schools are improving in reading faster than students in demographically similar districts amid what a team of researchers has identified as a national “reading recession.”
May 12, 2026
District leaders say the cuts are, in part, a result of lower projected revenue due to a new, controversial Santa Rosa City Schools policy that puts tighter limits on Santa Rosa students seeking to transfer out of the district and into neighboring systems including West Sonoma County Union High School District.
May 12, 2026
In the midst of strong public backlash, the Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s School Consolidation Advisory Committee voted Monday, May 11, on what, if any, school closure scenarios to recommend to the Board of Education for consideration.
May 12, 2026
The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals.
May 12, 2026
The $1 million project, slated to be completed this summer, is intended to improve the central outdoor gathering area of the Bantam Way campus, resulting in “a more functional and inviting outdoor space for students and staff,” said PCS Chief Business Officer Amanda Bonivert in an email to the Argus-Courier.
May 12, 2026
The Davis Joint Unified School District is preparing to tighten campus cellphone restrictions next school year, with junior high and high school students facing significantly stricter limits on when they can use their phones.
May 12, 2026
Over four-years, a Los Angeles school district manager enriched herself with $3 million in kickbacks by working with a tech company executive to deliver $22 million in work, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by the school district.
May 12, 2026
Educators, advocates and the state’s largest teachers’ union warn that a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom could delay help for students struggling to learn English.
May 12, 2026
The primary for the state’s top K-12 schools job is in less than a month, but judging from the polls, it’s debatable whether anyone is paying attention.
May 12, 2026
Jason Agan was impossible to miss at Angelo Rodriguez High School. The San Francisco Bay Area teacher was loud and gregarious, a fixture on campus since the Fairfield school opened in 2001.
May 12, 2026
Andrea Gillanders’ son, a third grader, attributes his testing anxiety to Fresno Unified School District’s implementation of i-Ready, a digital learning platform designed to help teachers identify learning gaps and personalize instruction.
May 11, 2026
Even with the money saved by layoffs, the board may need to decide on whether or not to enter a receivership or risk 5,000 employees not being paid come next school year.
May 11, 2026
Goodman, who is spearheading the fundraising, said the partnership is seeking to raise $1.675 million to fund the program over the next three years.
May 11, 2026
On Monday, May 11, the Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s School Consolidation Advisory Committee will be holding its seventh and final meeting, where it is scheduled to vote on sending school merger recommendations to the Board of Education.
May 11, 2026
Press advocacy groups are calling on the Tamalpais Union High School District to drop inquiries into coverage and cease censorship of the Redwood Bark, Redwood High School’s student newspaper.
May 11, 2026
The program has been contending with the declining availability of grand funding and trying to figure out, with the help of volunteers, a path to sustainability.
May 11, 2026
Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages. That’s the message from a leading pediatricians group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected.
May 11, 2026
The order of new elementary schools built in Folsom will change. On Thursday, the Folsom Cordova Unified School District school board approved shifting the building order of two elementary schools.
May 08, 2026
Becoming a new public school teacher in California means facing an impossible choice: work for a high-need school, making a full-time salary but with little support or training; or get the proper education and training but lose a year or more of wages.
May 08, 2026
Two Temecula school board members are facing backlash after their social media comments comparing a photo of uniformed high school water polo players to Chippendales exotic dancers and what’s seen on an adult content platform.
May 08, 2026
California K-12 schools have come a long way over the past 20 years, but according to an exhaustive overview of the state’s school system, further progress may require tinkering with a long-entrenched form of school governance: local control.
May 08, 2026
The mood in the Serna Center was decidedly grim Thursday night as the leader of a state financial agency told the Sacramento City Unified School District board that a state takeover is inevitable.
May 08, 2026
A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final exams.
May 08, 2026
More than a dozen American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in Clovis Unified have left for better-paying jobs in neighboring districts amid stalled negotiations over their first collective bargaining agreement.
May 07, 2026
Education officials across California are calling on the governor and state Legislature to scrap a plan to withhold billions in education funding that they say means more cuts for students and continues a harmful trend of underfunding.
May 07, 2026
Stanford University on Thursday released a sweeping research project that takes a 360-degree, immersive look at all aspects and operations of public education in California, from preschool through high school, from special education to teacher certification, enrollment decline to high school redesign.
May 06, 2026
Layoffs consist of the full-time equivalent of 12.8 certificated positions (including 10.8 teaching jobs), 21.6 classified jobs and 4.6 vacant classified posts. The reductions will save the district an estimated $3.25 million annually in employee salaries and benefits.
May 05, 2026
An anonymous Facebook post claimed that students in the Paso Robles school district were “found drugged in the bathrooms” — but the school district said the allegation is untrue.
May 06, 2026
The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education on Thursday, May 7, is scheduled to vote on more than 280 layoffs as part of an ongoing budget reduction process.
May 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the Los Angeles school district for allegedly reassigning — rather than removing — teachers who have been accused of sexual misconduct, including those who have had “romantic relationships” with students.
May 06, 2026
When Tania Rivera’s son with autism ran out of school and into the street, no one noticed he was gone. Not the teacher or any school official. Rivera said she found out from another parent who saw him.
May 05, 2026
District administrators, including Abbasi, Superintendent Monica Anzo and former Superintendent Jim Koenig first presented the idea to the Board of Trustees in June 2023. The project is estimated to cost approximately $8 million, utilizing money from the District’s general funds, construction funds and a music and arts block grant.
May 05, 2026
It may come as a surprise to Californians who know the state has consistently ranked low in how much it spends on students compared to other states: California’s ranking has soared to the 13th-highest in the nation for how much it funds education per student.
May 04, 2026
Declining enrollment, standardized test scores and campus safety were the topics of conversation April 30 as the three candidates for Ventura County Superintendent of Schools engaged in their first debate. Incumbent César Morales, appointed in 2021 and elected for his first full term in 2022, faced off educator Maggie Marschner and school board member Karen Sher.
May 04, 2026
Tuolumne County voters will decide in the June 2 primary election between sticking with incumbent Superintendent of Schools Zack Abernathy for the next four years, or going in a different direction with challenger Gabe Wingo, marking only the second competitive bid for the county’s top education position in recent memory.
May 04, 2026
Sausalito Marin City School District teachers are seeking answers after a draft document surfaced offering the superintendent a new contract in exchange for dropping allegations of a hostile work environment.
May 04, 2026
Criminal charges filed against a teaching assistant at Sunset Elementary School accused of molesting a 4-year-old girl on the campus were dismissed Thursday due to insufficient evidence, officials said.
May 04, 2026
Milpitas Unified School District (MUSD) last month celebrated the groundbreaking for the final phase of its Innovation Campus.
May 01, 2026
Voters in La Verne and San Dimas will decide on Measure A, which would add $59 per $100,000 of assessed value of properties to tax bills. For the bond to pass, 55% of voters would have to be in favor.
May 01, 2026
A water polo coach with the Redlands Unified School District who is suspected of sexual crimes with a 15-year-old student was arrested Wednesday, April 29, Redlands police and school district officials said.
May 01, 2026
A 26-year-old school employee has been arrested on suspicion of child molestation and possession of child pornography, the Bakersfield Police Department reported Thursday.
May 01, 2026
The Napa Valley Unified School District isn’t seeing the rapid pace of enrollment drop-off it saw in prior years, and a recent report predicts those declines will continue at a slower pace.
May 01, 2026
A Napa County judge this week rejected claims the Napa Valley Unified School District made in a 2024 lawsuit that sought to effectively close a downtown Napa charter school.
May 01, 2026
Longtime Sacramento City Unified School District employee Cancy McArn was named the district’s permanent superintendent following a unanimous vote Thursday evening.
May 01, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay $30.5 million to 19 more students who said they were victims of Mark Berndt, a convicted serial child molester, bringing the amount the district has paid out in connection with his crimes to more than $200 million, attorneys said Thursday.
May 01, 2026
San Francisco schools will revamp its loathed student assignment lottery system and consider closures by fall 2030 under a new plan to address two of the district’s most contentious issues.
Apr 30, 2026
They said 13 of the victims were students at Santa Paula Unified School District’s McKevett Elementary School, where Braff worked as a counselor from 2015 through 2019. He resigned seven months after the district placed him on paid administrative leave, according to previous reporting.
Apr 30, 2026
Del Norte Water Company, founded over a century ago, has provided the Mesa Union School District with water since its campus was built in 1939, officials said. While the school was not within Del Norte's service area, it reportedly started providing water to the campus on an emergency basis and later continued to do so.
Apr 30, 2026
Valladares, 41, was arrested in March after an investigation by the Marin County Sheriff’s Office. He allegedly entered an office on campus, got the PTA checkbook from a safe and wrote a check to himself for $7,000, sheriff’s Lt. Brennan Collins said.
Apr 30, 2026
To offset the rising costs, the program has been infused with new funds, including additional tax revenue — pending final approval of an expenditure plan — and some buy-in from schools to help maintain the service.
Apr 30, 2026
Voters in La Verne and San Dimas will decide on Measure A, which would add $59 per $100,000 of assessed value of properties to tax bills. For the bond to pass, 55% of voters would have to be in favor.
Apr 30, 2026
Valley of the Moon Teachers Association members have approved a tentative contract agreement with Sonoma Valley Unified School District that would provide certificated employees with a salary increase of 1%, retroactive to July 1, 2025, and an additional 1% increase, retroactive to Jan. 1.
Apr 30, 2026
The Central Unified school board voted Tuesday to oppose the Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan backed by Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, making it the school district in the area to take a public stance on the mega-development plan.
Apr 30, 2026
The Little Lake school district in southeast Los Angeles County and its teachers union reached a tentative agreement Monday night, ending one of the longest teacher strikes in state history after its 200-member union walked out over significant issues straining districts throughout California.
Apr 30, 2026
Nearly two years after California voters approved billions of dollars in bond money to repair aging schools, demand has outstripped the available funds.
Apr 30, 2026
Education is not a central issue in California’s crowded governor’s race, but the candidates addressing it offer sharply different visions, from expanding school funding and free college, to stricter teacher accountability and restrictions on transgender students in sports.
Apr 29, 2026
Monterey County Office of Education breaks ground on a $42 million conference center on April 28, 2026, in Salinas, Calif. The state-of-the-art center will replace aging portables and be a hub for professional development and house preschool and migrant services.
Apr 29, 2026
Tehachapi school officials face legal accusations they failed to properly screen or duly report the misdeeds of a physical education teacher who has been criminally charged with sexually inappropriate activity with several of his students.
Apr 27, 2026
A Westlake High School teacher is suing Conejo Valley Unified School District, alleging she was placed on leave after raising concerns about how the administration handled students’ reports of sexual assault.
Apr 29, 2026
In the wake of a deadly shooting at Natomas High school in mid April, parents, students and local officials in the North Sacramento community are mourning the death of a Black teenage boy and looking for solutions surrounding campus safety.
Apr 29, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District’s sustainability manager is pushing to make electric buses 80% of the district’s fleet within five years — a goal she says will save money and cut emissions.
Apr 29, 2026
Dozens of Oakland school principals, warning of dire conditions in classrooms, urged district leaders this week to stop stalling and do what has to be done: Close schools and pick a permanent superintendent.
Apr 29, 2026
Student enrollment in the Clovis Unified School District has reached a record high, making it the 11th largest school district in California, according to enrollment data released by the California Department of Education.
Apr 29, 2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to shift control of the Department of Education from the state superintendent of public instruction to a new education commissioner under future governors’ authority passed its first test in the Legislature last week — but probably not the way Newsom expected.
Apr 28, 2026
For the first time in 20 years, the San Francisco Unified School District will update its history and social-studies textbooks for elementary and high school students.
Apr 28, 2026
Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education — and may be just as controversial.
Apr 28, 2026
Administrators at an affluent Marin County high school district appear to have twice recently violated a state law that protects the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists at an award-winning newspaper, the Redwood Bark.
Apr 28, 2026
A draft of the 2026-27 Local Control and Accountability Plan will be the focus of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees during its study session on Tuesday, April 28.
Apr 27, 2026
The Little Lake City School District governing board on Sunday unanimously approved Monica Johnson as the district’s interim superintendent, just days after the district’s top administrator announced his retirement amid a teachers strike now heading into its third week.
Apr 27, 2026
That process comes as the district faces serious enrollment declines, rising costs, economic uncertainty and a $30 million structural deficit that have already led to staff cuts and stark warnings from the Los Angeles County Office of Education, an oversight agency.
Apr 27, 2026
The San Francisco Board of Education on Tuesday will vote whether or not to approve Superintendent Maria Su’s proposed effort to overhaul classroom instruction and replace outdated curricula with learning materials that reflect more recent 21st century developments.
Apr 27, 2026
Meanwhile, members of SEIU Local 99 will start voting today through early May. That union represents bus drivers, cafeteria workers, classroom aides and other school support staff. The tentative deal promises to bring their 30,000 members a 24% pay increase and expanded healthcare access.
Apr 27, 2026
Union officials said the contract includes a 12.15% wage increase over two years, “along with landmark workload protections, including a defined 8-hour workday, a reasonable 40-hour workweek, and flex time with notice and no pre-approval.”
Apr 27, 2026
On the California Department of Justice’s website, which is designed to help families know their rights, schools reported 2,700 incidents of sexual assault, 17,000 allegations of sexual harassment and 350 incidents of rape or attempted rape in a single academic year.
Apr 27, 2026
Despite protections in a 1977 landmark state law, the Student Free Expression Act, which prohibits administrators from interfering with the gathering and publication of news, student reporters and their journalism advisers have encountered censorship attempts in recent years, including efforts to punish advisers for students’ stories and to remove content.
Apr 27, 2026
Administrators at an affluent Marin County high school district appear to have twice recently violated a state law that protects the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists at an award-winning newspaper, the Redwood Bark.
Apr 27, 2026
The Fresno Unified school board approved an $80,000 expenditure to renew its board leadership coaching contract for the next two years.
Apr 27, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District’s former Chief Business Officer Janea Marking alleges in documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee that the board of trustees knowingly approved an “unaffordable” teachers union contract despite repeated warnings about its fiscal consequences.
Apr 27, 2026
As concerns loom for school funding amid an uncertain state budget, the candidates also debated how education is funded now — and how it should be.
Apr 24, 2026
But the new, positive budget certification that came in the wake of the latest round of deep job cuts, sweeping program changes and loss of key student support services was met with a show of force and sharp criticism from the district’s teachers and other unionized school staff.
Apr 24, 2026
A federal judge has ordered two former Patterson school district officials to repay a combined $750,000 following their convictions in a $1.5 million embezzlement scheme, according to court records filed this week.
Apr 24, 2026
The policy adheres to state legislation, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, requiring districts to ban or limit smartphone use on campus during school hours. The Phone-Free School Act mandates that school districts, charter schools and county education offices develop a policy by July 1.
Apr 24, 2026
The top candidates vying to be California’s next superintendent of public instruction took the stage for two virtual forums this week, detailing how they would handle achievement gaps, artificial intelligence concerns, LGBTQ+ protections and more.
Apr 24, 2026
While Muratsuchi wanted a bell-to-bell ban for students from kindergarten through high school, arguing that kids’ focus will slip if they’re allowed to whip out phones between classes or during lunch, he “reluctantly” agreed during the hearing to exempt high schools from the ban.
Apr 24, 2026
Wednesday evening’s board discussion came weeks before the board is expected to vote again whether to take a public stance on SEDA, a 9,000-acre mega-development project in southeast Fresno that district officials fear could worsen Fresno Unified’s declining enrollment.
Apr 24, 2026
Sacramento City Unified School District’s former top financial officer alleges that the board of trustees knowingly made financial decisions that worsened the financial crisis, according to documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee.
Apr 24, 2026
When asked how the district would prepare for maintenance, Ralston said the district already spends approximately $25,000 per year districtwide to maintain and test its existing artificial turf fields, and that the cost of adding Crocker/Riverside to that contract would be “minimal.”
Apr 24, 2026
A special board meeting Thursday night marked the first official discussion about the future of the district’s schools. The conversation is complicated but necessary as the district faces a budget crisis that projects a $390 million deficit by the end of the 2027-28 school year.
Apr 24, 2026
More than half the nation’s public preschool enrollment gain — some 25,000 students — came in California, which this year made every 4-year-old eligible for its “transitional kindergarten” program, or “TK.”
Apr 24, 2026
Santa Rosa City Schools, a former instructional aide at its continuation campus and his estranged spouse, who is a principal at a different high school, are named in a negligence lawsuit filed by a 20-year-old woman whom the aide sexually touched while assisting her in a program for adults with disabilities.
Apr 23, 2026
Antonio-Leon was arrested without incident and transported to the Northern Branch Jail, where he was booked on felony possession of a firearm on school grounds, according to the release.
Apr 23, 2026
A lawsuit filed last week on behalf of a student at Del Oro High accuses the school’s district, principal and music teacher of failing to protect her from a band coach who faces criminal charges of having sex with her when she was just 15 years old.
Apr 23, 2026
The Napa Valley Unified School District board voted to censure Trustee Julianna Villegas Hart on Wednesday, April 22, for alleged violations of board policies and norms in recent months.
Apr 23, 2026
An East Bay Jewish teenager sued her principal, two former teachers and her school district this week, alleging “pervasive and unrelenting” antisemitic harassment and discrimination over two years leading to panic attacks and a precipitous drop in her GPA.
Apr 23, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District board this week approved a six-figure salary for Acting Superintendent Andres Chait while Superintendent Alberto Carvalho remains on paid leave.
Apr 23, 2026
Voters are set to decide on two Oakley Union Elementary School District bond measures totaling $123 million that are intended to repair and upgrade schools, and enhance student safety.
Apr 23, 2026
An early education teacher in California’s Central Valley may soon be forced out of the classroom as delays in renewing her immigration status and work authorization stretch far beyond the usual timeline. Her renewal is still “processing.”
Apr 22, 2026
The Napa Valley Unified School District board is scheduled to consider censuring Trustee Julianna Villegas Hart at a special meeting Wednesday night, April 22, for allegedly violating board policies and governance norms over the past few months.
Apr 22, 2026
Striking Little Lake City School District teachers on Tuesday continued their push to overhaul the district’s school board, mailing notices of intent to recall all five trustees, a day after contract negotiations ended with no progress.
Apr 22, 2026
The rescinded layoffs come a month after the board approved potential moves to save the district more than $2 million as it looks to ultimately cut over $4 million from the 2026-27 budget.
Apr 22, 2026
To help mitigate a growing budget deficit, Fresno Unified is considering making cuts to its number of mental health specialists, which saw significant growth following the pandemic.
Apr 22, 2026
In 2016, more than 41,000 kids attended one of the 71 sites in Sacramento City Unified School District. Today that enrollment number has dwindled to around 36,000. Despite hemorrhaging 10% of its students in under a decade, the district still operates the same number of schools.
Apr 22, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously voted to curb classroom screen time, directing staff to develop a policy by June ahead of the upcoming school year.
Apr 22, 2026
LAUSD is seeking to double its infant care centers and expand early education programs for toddlers, a plan that aims to push the district deeper into the child-care industry, provide affordable day care and eventually bolster dwindling district enrollment.
Apr 21, 2026
The Fairfax School District agreed Monday to pay $5 million to an anonymous victim of sexual abuse by a teacher more than a decade ago.
Apr 21, 2026
The Petaluma City Schools Board of Education has approved a resolution directing all district campuses to fly the pride flag throughout the school year.
Apr 21, 2026
Fresno Unified’s projected budget deficit for the upcoming school year has grown to $88 million, the district said, a 49 percent increase from just February.
Apr 21, 2026
The Palo Verde school board will consider censuring one of its members at the Tuesday, April 21, meeting, after he reportedly spoke with with Riverside County District Attorney’s office investigators.
Apr 21, 2026
Student classroom screen time would be cut way back under a proposal expected to win approval Tuesday from the Los Angeles Board of Education, a remarkable reversal of years-long initiatives to equip students with computers and internet access — and a move that comes amid growing parental pushback on devices.
Apr 21, 2026
In a report released this week, Auditors with Crowe LLP, an accounting and consulting firm, said unsustainable expenses, declining enrollment and leadership turnover have created “substantial doubt” that the district will be able to pay its bills and stay afloat in the near future.
Apr 21, 2026
Over the past year, at the Stanislaus County education office in Modesto, about a dozen parents have met monthly for two-hour sessions to learn computer skills.
Apr 20, 2026
Citing faulty materials and well before the expiration of a 10-year warranty, Santa Rosa City Schools officials have OK’d the removal and replacement of synthetic turf athletic fields at all five of their junior senior high school campuses.
Apr 20, 2026
The Sonoma County Office of Education has signed off on Santa Rosa City School’s positive budget certification, signaling it thinks the district may be on its way to fiscal solvency.
Apr 20, 2026
Jennifer Moe, who serves as a school board member for the Shandon Joint Unified School District, is accused of stealing property from Target on Dec. 20 of last year, according to a court complaint filed in January.
Apr 20, 2026
When the heads of three Los Angeles Unified School District unions stood side by side at City Hall to announce their new contracts after nearly going on strike hours earlier, one of them looked out of place.
Apr 20, 2026
For the third straight year, environmental activists and California lawmakers are locked in a tug-of-war over a pool of state funds created to upgrade heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in schools to curb disruptions and closures attributed to extreme weather.
Apr 20, 2026
School closures are an incendiary issue in nearly every corner of California, as enrollment declines and expenses climb. The topic has sparked parent revolts, teacher strikes and school boards’ desperate attempts to keep districts financially afloat.
Apr 20, 2026
The latest student enrollment figures have sent a shock wave through California’s education system. True, the downward trend of enrollment in the state’s transitional kindergarten to 12th grade is no longer a surprise.
Apr 17, 2026
The bipartisan bill, AB 1644, introduced this week, would require all TK-12 public schools and charter schools to adopt “bell-to-bell” policies prohibiting student smartphone use from the first bell in the morning until the final bell at the end of the day.
Apr 17, 2026
Fresno Unified — the state’s third-largest school district — saw a drop in student enrollment of nearly 1,000 ahead of the 2025-26 school year, according to data released from the California Department of Education on Thursday.
Apr 17, 2026
The Roseville Joint Union High School District is considering changes to school attendance boundaries as enrollment growth in west Roseville continued to strain campuses.
Apr 17, 2026
Four candidates for California’s top education job spoke in San Diego on Thursday afternoon about issues like curriculum, accountability and career technical education in a friendly forum where they built on each other’s comments more than they disagreed.
Apr 17, 2026
Temecula school board member Emil Barham was censured Thursday night, April 16, after being accused by fellow trustee Melinda Anderson of “intimidation and unprofessional behavior.”
Apr 17, 2026
San Francisco’s public school kids should finally recognize the world depicted in their social studies classes next fall after the district’s first curriculum update since 2006 — when iPods dominated the music market, only birds tweeted and same-sex couples couldn’t marry in California.
Apr 17, 2026
Hundreds of teachers in southeast Los Angeles County went on strike Thursday in the Little Lake City School District, marking the first teacher work stoppage in the district’s 150-year history.
Apr 17, 2026
After a recent morning rush at a Fresno Grocery Outlet, 22-year-old Elena Santos moved down each aisle to return misplaced food items to their proper places. She brought vitamins to the front of the shelves and neatly arranged hygiene products.
Apr 17, 2026
Enrollment in California K-12 schools, and in schools across the country, is declining rapidly as birth rates drop and immigration rates fall. This school year, California had the largest decline in enrollment rates since 2021-22, after schools returned from the pandemic.
Apr 16, 2026
In a pair of consequential moves last week aimed at restoring stability, the Sonora Elementary School District appointed three new board members and approved an agreement to share a superintendent with Columbia Union School District.
Apr 16, 2026
The teachers’ association has argued all along that such concessions are feasible if the district reallocates its funding priorities, but district officials say they are motivated by sound fiscal management that will help keep the district afloat.
Apr 16, 2026
The NuKase cases, which will cost $104,000 in the first year and between nothing and $10,000 in subsequent years, are cheaper than the previously considered Yondr pouches, which would cost $145,000 the first year and $30,000 in subsequent years, Goode said.
Apr 16, 2026
After taking a break from social media, Orange County student Elise Choi helped write a bill that would mandate California schools teach digital wellness — a response to growing concerns about how technology is affecting students’ mental health.
Apr 16, 2026
In the wake of a fatal on-campus shooting, leaders of the Natomas Unified School District are asking the city of Sacramento to again provide school resource officers.
Apr 16, 2026
An East County elementary school board has voted to split up the district into smaller voting entities for the purpose of passing bonds — but ultimately declined to put the actual bonds on the ballot.
Apr 15, 2026
The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday, April 14 said the shooting was an act of self-defense during an attempted robbery. The DA’s office said two people who were not students at Natomas High went onto campus looking for a specific student.
Apr 15, 2026
“If we have less students attending, then we have less funds to support our schools, which has implications for staffing stability and program offerings and long-term stability and, unfortunately, our declining enrollment has recently resulted in the closure of two schools,” Davies-Hughes said.
Apr 15, 2026
Ayala-Quintero said the challenge showed the board’s hypocrisy because it ignored previous recommendations from a committee that suggested keeping other books. Yet Tuesday night, the board followed that committee’s suggestion by allowing the Bible to remain.
Apr 15, 2026
Measure H would renew the current tax rate of $742 per parcel, and add a $540 increase, resulting in a $1,282 per parcel tax per year for 10 years. The tax, which would generate about $8.6 million annually, would have a 3% annual cost-of-living increase.
Apr 15, 2026
Santa Rosa City Schools will pay $6.25 million to settle lawsuits filed by the families of two students involved in a 2023 fatal stabbing at Montgomery High School.
Apr 15, 2026
Three Los Angeles school district unions won major victories with deals that bring hefty raises and prompted celebratory messages about a new chapter in local education progress. But the price of union peace will be nearly $1.2 billion in annual contract costs, and questions remain about whether the district can afford it.
Apr 15, 2026
At the heart of the negotiations was the issue of financial pressures — how much LAUSD employees struggle to make ends meet with increasing costs in the region, and how much the district has, and doesn’t have, to meet salary demands.
Apr 14, 2026
Los Angeles schools avoided a strike that would have impacted nearly 400,000 students in Southern California as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal early Tuesday.
Apr 14, 2026
A third-party consultant on Monday, April 13, proposed three possible scenarios for Pasadena Unified School District TK-8th grade closures and consolidation, the latest action in the district’s efforts to cut costs amid declining enrollment and financial troubles.
Apr 14, 2026
A Palo Verde Unified school board member is stepping down after questions arose about her representing her Blythe district while living in Arizona since 2023.
Apr 14, 2026
Someone has lodged a complaint with Redlands schools against the King James version of the Bible, alleging it has inappropriate material for students.
Apr 14, 2026
Brian Chubon, the former Modesto principal convicted of felony statutory rape of a minor in Merced County, wrote in a letter to Modesto City Schools that he was afraid to inform the district about his charges.
Apr 13, 2026
Fresno Unified trustees adopted a resolution this week aimed at addressing on-campus homages to Cesar Chavez, and the school district has begun to cover murals on school campuses honoring the late labor leader.
Apr 13, 2026
The new school, which will be located at 8140 Spoonwood Ave. near the intersection of Bruceville Road and Poppy Ridge Road, will be named David W. Gordon Elementary School, the Board of Education unanimously approved Tuesday.
Apr 13, 2026
National School District announced that Laura Philyaw was selected as the finalist for the superintendent job. The board of education is expected to approve a multi-year contract at an upcoming school board meeting. Details of the employment agreement are not available at this time.
Apr 13, 2026
Two Riverside Unified School District employees will be laid off next school year after the district sends final layoff notices. The Riverside school board voted 5-0 Thursday, to approve the notices before the May 15 deadline.
Apr 13, 2026
With lower interest rates available, the Brentwood Union School District refinanced $20 million in general obligation bonds issued under Measure B. The $158 million injection of funds was authorized by voters in 2016 to help pay for repairs and upgrades to school facilities.
Apr 13, 2026
Two unions — United Teachers Los Angeles and Associated Administrators of Los Angeles — have reached tentative labor agreements with the Los Angeles Unified School District, bringing the district even closer to averting a three-union strike Tuesday that could shut down schools for nearly 400,000 students.
Apr 10, 2026
The armory is currently used as a hub for district maintenance and operations, but it is envisioned to house 20-24 large CTE classrooms, each designed for a specific career-track. What exactly those classrooms will hold, however, is up to the community.
Apr 10, 2026
The Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent’s School Consolidation Advisory Committee is set to hold its fifth of seven meetings Monday, April 13, where it will be presented with consolidation scenarios by a third-party consultant.
Apr 10, 2026
A simple yes-or-no survey will determine the fate of a learning center in Rialto named for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, co-founders of a key farmworkers union, after sexual abuse allegations against Chavez came to light in March.
Apr 10, 2026
A lawsuit against the Ontario-Montclair School District alleges employees were negligent last year when a non-verbal autistic 4-year-old Lincoln Elementary School student nearly drowned.
Apr 10, 2026
A senator’s request for the California State Auditor’s office to review the administration practices of the Orange County Board of Education has been approved by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
Apr 10, 2026
A strange email was set to hit the inbox of every educator in the San Francisco Unified School District on Thursday, the contents resembling a Nigerian prince scam with an implausible message of free money.
Apr 10, 2026
The looming strike next Tuesday at Los Angeles public schools unites three unlikely allies that, together, plan to bring the nation’s second-largest school system to a standstill and exert formidable pressure to reach a favorable settlement.
Apr 10, 2026
A potential three-union strike – involving roughly 70,000 employees of the Los Angeles Unified School District — scheduled to start Tuesday if there is no settlement, would cause upheaval throughout Los Angeles.
Apr 09, 2026
Templeton Middle School and Vineyard Elementary School and will swap campuses — an estimated $60.5 million decision that comes along with renovations and new construction at both school sites.
Apr 09, 2026
The Novato Unified School District is asking voters to approve an additional parcel tax that would double the annual payments.
Apr 09, 2026
Negotiators for United Teachers Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District met Wednesday for a key bargaining session that could determine whether a planned strike moves forward Tuesday, though no outcome had been announced as of press time.
Apr 09, 2026
A former Elk Grove Unified School District employee is suing the district for allegedly retaliating against her after she cooperated with law enforcement on a school shooting threat investigation and reported suspected child abuse.
Apr 09, 2026
The California Teachers Association lashed out at Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, as they reported that more than 100 California school districts have issued 2,400 preliminary layoff notices in the last month.
Apr 08, 2026
As part of this editorial board’s ongoing election coverage and endorsement process, we reached out to candidates for state superintendent of public instruction on a litany of public policy issues.
Apr 08, 2026
The campus is home to more Black students admitted to the University of California system than any other school: 1,103 since 1994, including 67 last year. Berkeley High School, which had 849 Black students admitted during the same period, 46 last year, is second.
Apr 07, 2026
Measure E on the June 2 ballot would extend the current annual tax at the rate of $1,520 that expires in June 2029. It also would reauthorize a supplemental tax that expired in 2021, levying an additional $234 per parcel.
Apr 07, 2026
Teachers struggling to afford living in this city can soon apply to live next door to their colleagues in a North Oakland apartment building that is being converted into housing for educators.
Apr 07, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday terminated a civil rights settlement with Sacramento City Unified School District aimed at ensuring a transgender student’s right to equal opportunity to education.
Apr 07, 2026
As part of this editorial board’s ongoing election coverage and endorsement process, we reached out to candidates for state superintendent of public instruction on a litany of public policy issues.
Apr 07, 2026
The changing of the guard after the eight-year term limits for Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond will likely coincide with a belt-tightening period for the state budget, forcing tough choices for the next governor.
Apr 07, 2026
Los Angeles schools are one week away from a historic employee walkout — which for the first time would involve three major unions representing teachers, most non-teaching staff and school administrators, including principals and assistant principals.
Apr 06, 2026
Redwood High School teachers and parents are accusing the school administration of interfering with the award-winning student newspaper, the Bark.
Apr 06, 2026
Los Angeles Unified principals and administrators will join teachers and school workers on picket lines beginning April 14, after their union announced Friday afternoon that members overwhelmingly approved a strike authorization vote.
Apr 06, 2026
With a potential strike looming in the Los Angeles Unified School District, students and families are facing a key question: What would happen if teachers and school workers walked off the job?
Apr 06, 2026
The superintendent of the Rio School District in northern Oxnard is on leave and an interim leader is now in charge.
Apr 06, 2026
Many teachers and parents say that the district’s cellphone ban last year has been ineffective.
Apr 06, 2026
A minor was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a 12-year-old girl who died after being hit in the head with a metal water bottle in an alleged bullying incident at Reseda Charter High School, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed.
Apr 06, 2026
After the state signaled it would not overhaul how schools are funded, districts across the Bay Area warned that failure to address school budget shortfalls will do irreparable harm to students.
Apr 06, 2026
Last week the Sacramento City Unified School District board unanimously approved spending up to $400,000 for budget advisory services from HYA Corporation, a school consulting group. The next day, the fiscal adviser assigned to the district by Sacramento County Office of Education blocked the deal, much to the board’s frustration.
Apr 06, 2026
Colton Joint Unified School District has paid $19.5 million to settle lawsuits by 12 former Colton High football players who alleged they were sexually abused by the school’s former athletic trainer, the daughter of the team’s renowned football coach.
Apr 06, 2026
The number of homeless students in Los Angeles County is surging, with thousands more unhoused in the span of a single school year.
Apr 06, 2026
Candidates for Fresno County Superintendent of Schools this week addressed declining school enrollment, the use of artificial intelligence in classrooms and the region’s early literacy crisis at a forum hosted by The Maddy Institute.
Mar 31, 2026
A state appellate court panel has vacated a former Granite Hills High School teacher’s child sexual abuse material and child molestation convictions related to sexual misconduct involving an underage former female student.
Mar 31, 2026
The Vallejo City Unified School District is terminating its Master Service Agreement with third-party contractor JF University/Luv Our Youth following an internal review of public statements made by the organization’s leadership.
Mar 31, 2026
With the emergence of student-led walkouts across Santa Barbara County campuses, local school districts and state officials say students have the right to protest — and may choose to leave campus — but those rights come with limits tied to attendance, safety and school supervision.
Mar 31, 2026
In a landmark decision, a California appeals court ruled that the West Contra Costa Unified School District violated state law by not doing enough to hire qualified teachers, sending a message to schools statewide that blaming vacancies on a teacher shortage is not a valid excuse.
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.