Moorpark Unified School District Superintendent Teresa Williams announced Tuesday that she will be retiring and her last day with the district will be June 30.
After weeks of talking about closing schools, Simi Valley trustees broadened their discussion to money matters this week, taking up their future budget, a potential bond measure and the sale of surplus property.
Just minutes after the Rowland Unified School District school board evaluated their superintendent behind closed doors Tuesday night, a steady stream of teachers evaluated him in public — in front of all gathered inside a packed board room.
Students are refining and improving their algebra knowledge with a computer program called Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces, or ALEKS, which evaluates students' skills before giving them more challenging problems.
New City Public Schools will not be disciplined by the state for failing to meet targets on standardized tests.
Fresno Unified Superintendent Michael Hanson assured parents Wednesday night that confidential information about district schools and students sent to a research institution at Stanford University will be secure.
Two middle-school graduations and a concert will be held at a local megachurch this year despite arguments by a parent and atheist group that it would violate the separation of church and state.
The Ocean View School District has developed standards for what type of technology to have in its classrooms, announcing a massive overhaul of the district's technology and infrastructure costing about $1.9 million.
About 20 school staff members demonstrated outside the Orange County Department of Education on Wednesday to boost support for their union’s push for cost-of-living increase, a one-time pay increase and a boost to the cap on health care benefits.
As K-12 districts begin seeing more state money, nearly 2,000 employees in Folsom Cordova schools will receive one-time bonus checks next month equal to 5 percent of pay.
“Unfortunately, the status remains the same.” So responded Gloria Madera, interim superintendent for the San Ysidro School District, in an email to U-T San Diego when asked about recent state-mediated labor talks between the district and the teachers union.
The San Diego County Board of Education, acting as a committee on school district organization, approved a proposal Wednesday to have voters elect Sweetwater school trustees from geographic areas within the district, a move that a citizens group says will improve representation.
Xavier De La Torre, the embattled chief of the Santa Clara County Office of Education, late Wednesday was named the lone finalist for superintendent of the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso.
Neighbors say the alarm has gone off about six times in the past 10 months, many times shaking them from their slumber. It has stayed on for as short as 15 minutes, they say, and as long as five hours.
Jose Fernandez, the Centinela Valley school superintendent who amassed $663,000 in total compensation last year, has been formally evaluated by the school board only once since he was given one of the most lucrative contracts in the state in 2009.
California led the country in opening new charter schools this fiscal year, adding 104 campuses and 48,000 students, according to a report released Wednesday.
Tom Torlakson, state Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced his support Wednesday for legislation that would require school districts to train employees in identifying and reporting suspected child abuse.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
As if the drought gripping California wasn’t enough to worry about, hundreds of Salinas Valley youths face the drying up of a key source of funding if Gov. Jerry Brown succeeds in eliminating $4.1 million for high school agriculture programs.
Unclear and contradictory board policies and practices at the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District paved the way for changing the transcripts of 93 students. That was one of the major conclusions reached by Monterey County Superintendent of Schools Nancy Kotowski and her team of investigators after they conducted an audit behind the changes to the transcripts.
Novato Unified School District has been gifted a large piece of property from the military and district leaders are now trying to figure out what to do with it.
A former board member for a Newport Beach-based charter school district was arrested this week on charges he stole $750,000 in school funds for personal use.
A San Diego County Superior Court jury on Tuesday awarded a solar-power company $12 million in damages against the San Ysidro School District, already facing significant financial troubles.
Sacramento-based StudentsFirst is seeking to expand its political clout in California by asking its members to contribute to a new election campaign fund.
Upping its campaign to root out what it views as its lowest performing schools, the California Charter Schools Association last week criticized a San Jose school district for allowing a charter school to open two more campuses next year.
A proposal to appoint a caretaker to a vacant Los Angeles Board of Education seat failed Tuesday when a majority of the remaining trustees refused to support it.
