k-12 education

CAMPBELL — One of the oldest county libraries is getting a complete overhaul more than a decade after city officials first identified the need for a drastic upgrade. The 24,000 square foot-library, which has been out of commission since…
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Just a few months ago, one of the country’s most renowned high school Japanese programs was at risk of extinction. Struggling with declining enrollment, the Fremont Union High School District had planned to phase out Japanese classes at…
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The Newport-Mesa Unified School District does not consider the phrase “Free Palestine” to be hate speech, Superintendent Wesley Smith said Tuesday. Smith, during the Nov. 14 school board meeting, addressed the suspension of a Corona del Mar…
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Last week, the attorney general’s office completed paperwork for an initiative that, if qualified for the 2024 ballot and approved by voters, would require California’s nearly 6 million public school students to take a course in personal…
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A former Marin County schools superintendent accused of inappropriate contact with a child was convicted by a jury on Monday. Robert Patrick Raines, who used to administer the Shoreline Unified School District, could face a year in jail and…
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Award for ‘Edible Learning’ The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District won a 2023 Golden Bell Award from the California School Boards Association for its food service program. In 2019, Los Gatos High School assistant principal Kristi…
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A Corona del Mar Middle and High School student was suspended this week, allegedly for saying remarks deemed to be threatening, such as “Free Palestine,” to a classmate, according to social media posts circulating Friday. Newport-Mesa…
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Helen Pierce has spent her life creating buildings for the future. As the design director of LPA, an architectural firm based out of California and Texas, Pierce has focused on bringing sustainability to the forefront of her designs,…
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OAKLAND — Former school principal Jorge Lerma has a substantial lead in the race for a vacant Oakland Unified school board seat, but later returns on Thursday indicated that opponent Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez is cutting into it. Lerma now has…
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California kids, do you follow the news about the culture wars over local school boards? If you do, you’ll see these wars portrayed as political contests between groups that want to take education in different direction: progressives and…
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