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Education Headlines
Sweep for 87 habitual truants brings 8 back to school
Of 87 students targeted and 62 contacted in sweeps for habitually absent students, only eight were returned to school Wednesday in the first truancy sweep of the school year. Nineteen local law enforcement employees from four different agencies searched Bakersfield schools and knocked on doors of students’ homes to find absent students.Contract extension approved for Oxnard Union superintendent
A divided Oxnard Union school board on Wednesday voted to extend Superintendent Gabe Soumakian’s contract to 2016.Fresno Unified middle school redesign shows positive impact
The first year of Fresno Unified’s effort to remake middle schools has improved student attendance, expanded electives offerings and raised grades in those classes, district trustees were told Wednesday.Saddleback school district to drop Edison program that cut AC during heat wave
Saddleback Valley Unified School District officials are seeking to drop out of a popular energy-savings program that backfired on them last week when it cut off air-conditioning to some campuses during a late-summer heat wave, leaving children inside sweltering classrooms.Judge grants extension to Twin Rivers trustee facing felony charges
The felony case involving Twin Rivers Unified Trustee Cortez Quinn remains unresolved after a judge continued his court hearing again Wednesday.CORONA-NORCO: Food banks collect leftover goodness from schools
Since March, the Corona-Norco Unified School District has donated about 52,000 pounds of food. Second Harvest Food Bank and Helping Hands Pantry are getting about 400 to 600 pounds a day from the district five days a week for the homeless and others in need across the Inland area.
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