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Sep 14, 2026
The district’s Board of Trustees appointed a committee of 23 teachers, parents, students, business leaders and other Ventura residents to make recommendations to the board on which schools would be the best choices to close, and that committee has been holding public meetings every month since March.
Sep 14, 2026
Santa Rosa City Schools has made some progress in its financial recovery since slashing dozens of staff positions and narrowing some programs last spring, but it has yet to meet its goals for cash on hand.
Sep 14, 2026
After a nearly two-hour discussion at its meeting on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Sonoma City Chambers, the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees did not take a vote on establishing a revised flag policy for district schools and instead requested staff members to flesh out three options for further discussion.
Sep 14, 2026
“Money from the state is based on how many students we have,” Joshua Braff told trustees at their board meeting on Sept. 1. “We have 600 students less now than at our peak in 2016-17, and 300 less than two years ago.”
Sep 14, 2026
Steven Richardson accepted a contract through June 2028 at $275,000 a year. District trustees unanimously approved the contract on Thursday. The contract starts on Oct. 1.
Sep 14, 2026
In 2013, San Francisco’s schools got their first monetary donation from Salesforce, a $2.7 million check that the company’s CEO and founder, Marc Benioff, said was the down payment on $100 million over 10 years.
Sep 14, 2026
Fourth-grader Landon Gonzalez and one of his classmates ran the 5K at the L.A. Chinatown Firecracker Run last year. They plan to do it again in the spring — only this time, they have a new place to train at their school in Westlake.
Sep 14, 2026
The race for California’s next superintendent of public instruction is meant to be nonpartisan. Still, the two candidates — both school board presidents — are pushing decidedly political campaigns.
Sep 14, 2026
Trent Nettles was a toddler on Sept. 11, 2001. Now 27, Nettles is an 11th-grade Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher — too young to remember the day but responsible for teaching it to students who weren’t yet born when it happened.
Sep 14, 2026
An Oakland Unified program offering mentorship and academic support to Latino male teenagers is the latest target of a conservative national parental rights group that has filed multiple complaints which led to civil rights investigations at schools across the country.
Sep 14, 2026
A month into the school year, teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are still adapting to the district’s new policy that bans screen time for its youngest kids and will soon place significant restrictions on older students.
Sep 11, 2026
At Summerville Elementary, the $150,000 gift is expected to provide long-term financial support for instruments, sheet music and other needs while allowing the district to expand its performing arts offerings.
Sep 11, 2026
Six teenagers were arrested Tuesday, Sept. 8, after a fight among students at a Redlands high school that injured staff members and resulted in several students being pepper sprayed, police said.
Sep 11, 2026
A handful of students in the Paso Robles school district protested the district’s dress code at a school board meeting Tuesday night, saying the enforcement of the code has unfairly targeted female students and caused more disruptions than it has solved.
Sep 11, 2026
As it works to address its ongoing fiscal crisis, the Sacramento City Unified School District has revised its fiscal plan and asked the Sacramento County Office of Education to withdraw its rescission of a teachers’ agreement by Sept. 17, arguing that it has satisfied state and county demands for solvency.
Sep 11, 2026
Parents are frustrated and concerned after discovering many classrooms in the Torrance Unified School District do not have air conditioning, leaving students to endure hot temperatures amid a record heatwave in the region.
Sep 11, 2026
From a longtime elementary teacher in San Mateo County to a principal in Costa Mesa, several California school employees have been arrested for child sexual misconduct charges just in the past month.
Sep 11, 2026
California schools will test all kindergartners, first- and second-graders in basic math skills and provide them tutoring if they need it, under a bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
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.