These California trucking schools broke state laws. Regulators couldn’t do anything about it
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
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Twin Rivers Unified teachers vote for a strike. Here’s when it could happen
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
The union announced Monday that more than 95% of the roughly 1,400 teachers it represents voted to authorize the first strike in the district’s history if a contract agreement is not reached soon.
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Pasadena Unified did not discriminate in 2019 school closings, judge rules
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
Judgment has been entered in favor of the Pasadena Unified School District in a discrimination lawsuit filed by parents of children who attended the majority-Latino Roosevelt, Jefferson and Franklin elementary schools, all of which were shuttered by the school board in 2019.
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High Desert schools make state’s low vaccination rate ‘watch list’
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
A group of High Desert and San Bernardino County-based schools has been repeatedly listed on the low kindergarten vaccination rates "watch list."
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Schools putting new limits on Coachella Valley students’ cellphone use
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
As a state deadline draws closer to limit cellphone use at school, K-12 school districts in the Coachella Valley are outlining how those changes could look on their campuses.
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EdSource: Amid a shortage of arts educators, a new fund launches to train teachers
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
The Arts and Music in Schools Act, the historic arts education mandate that greatly expanded the role of the arts in California classrooms, is receiving a boost in specialized educators to teach arts education in K-12 schools.
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Leadership crisis unfolds at Sonora Elementary School
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
Sonora Elementary School Superintendent Cheryl Griffiths was placed on administrative leave Sunday night, two days after the Tuolumne County District Attorney’s Office filed a misdemeanor charge accusing her of failing to report suspected child abuse at the school last year.
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Petaluma school district leaders drill down on $6.1 million in potential cuts
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
The Board of Education is expected to vote on the cuts Tuesday, Feb. 10.
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Santa Rosa City Schools must make painful cuts to fix worst cash crisis in state, expert says
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
District officials must not to waver in the face of the deepest cuts in a generation, a state fiscal expert said. State takeover is imminent if district officials cannot immediately free up cash.
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Child care in California was already hard to find — the immigration crackdown has made it worse
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
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Over 300 Turlock High students walk out in solidarity with Minneapolis
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
At noon, more than 300 students left their classrooms in a show of solidarity with the Minneapolis community.
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LAUSD teachers just authorized a strike. A deal could still avert a walkout
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
The leaders of the Los Angeles Unified teachers union now have the power to call for a strike if they can’t reach a deal over pay, benefits and student support with the district.
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Walkouts, closures across Bay Area in protest against ICE crackdown
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
High school and college students — and even some middle schoolers — took to the streets in Oakland, Berkeley, Danville, Castro Valley, Santa Clara and San Mateo, while numerous businesses across the region closed their doors or donated their profits to immigrant groups in solidarity.
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Antioch school board trustees to receive pay hike
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
After decades of a $400 monthly stipend, Antioch Unified School District Board of Trustees members voted Wednesday to give themselves a raise of $2,000 a month.
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Tri-Valley school districts facing million-dollar budget cuts, layoffs
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore schools are all grappling with multi-million dollar budget deficits in the 2026-27 school year, with the districts citing declining enrollment and decreased state and federal funding as having created budget holes that will likely lead to difficult decisions.
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Years after A3 charter school fraud case, San Diego County plans to help students with $25M recovered from it
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
A new $25 million grant paid for by criminal fines from the landmark A3 charter school fraud case will benefit San Diego County’s K-12 students, the district attorney announced Friday, nearly four years after the case was resolved.
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California was first to require ethnic studies class. But it hasn’t gone into effect
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Finance, said the requirement was not funded because the state has “limited available ongoing resources” as it tries to close a budget shortfall estimated at $2.9 billion.
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San Francisco school workers are the latest California educators to authorize a strike
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
More than 5,200 members of the United Educators of San Francisco voted overwhelmingly to authorize the union’s leadership to call a strike as teachers push for more public education funding.
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LAUSD teachers union members authorize strike, ratcheting up pressure on contract talks
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
Members of United Teachers Los Angeles have voted overwhelmingly to authorize their leadership to call a strike, ratcheting up pressure as negotiations stall and L.A. Unified warns of likely staff layoffs and future budget deficits.
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Hundreds of students at multiple Fresno high schools walk out in anti-ICE protests
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
Hundreds of students from multiple Fresno Unified high schools walked out of their campuses midday Friday to join the anti-ICE “national shutdown” protest.
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Bakersfield City School District board approves 280% pay increase for members
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
All but one member of the Bakersfield City School District Board of Education voted to increase their own compensation by more than 280% Tuesday, the maximum allowable for a district of that size.
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Stockton Unified trustee votes on $130K in contracts for nonprofit she serves on
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
Stockton Unified School District Trustee Kennetha Stevens voted twice on contracts totaling more than $130,000 for a nonprofit where she serves on the board, prompting questions about potential conflicts of interest.
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Mon, 02 Feb 2026
San Luis Obispo High School received reports of threat against the campus Thursday night, principal Rollin Dickinson told families in a memo Friday morning.
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San Rafael district approves contract with high school teachers
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
After 16 months of talks, San Rafael City Schools and its high school teachers union have a deal.
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Ross Valley School District officials have outlined a three-tier plan for $4.3 million in budget cuts over the next three years.
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Strategic Decision-Making in Higher Education: State Legislators and Affordability Policy for Public HBCUs
Arsene Frederic Jr. | EdWorkingPapers | Tue, 03 Feb 2026
This study uses a multiple-case qualitative research design to explores how power dynamics creates challenges and opportunities for SLBCs and their constituent members working to broaden college affordability and access for undergraduate low-income Black students attending public HBCUs. Guided by the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and the Black Utility Heuristic (BUH), the study analyzed interview data and state legislative documents to examine how the process of policy change and coalition structure and collaboration informed the policy agenda and the role of power dynamics. The analysis identified SLBCs and their constituent members advocacy for college affordability at public HBCUs is simultaneously belief-driven and deeply constrained by institutional power. Findings revealed that tension between the moral commitment and political constraint. This further demonstrate how that SLBCs and their constituent members transformed limited procedural power into influence through collective strategy and adaptation. This study contributes to higher education research by demonstrating that decisions about college affordability, particularly for public HBCUs, are shaped by power dynamics that occur before formal votes take place. By examining these behind-the-scenes processes, the study helps explain why certain policy proposals advance while others stall, even when there is broad support for affordability goals.
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