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Let the Latest Scramble Begin for California School Construction Money

The record 205 school districts that passed construction bonds in November will spend 2025 vying for matching money from a $10 billion state...

/ 5 days ago

Conflict Over Race, LGBTQ Issues Cost Schools More Than $3 Billion Last School Year

Conflicts between parents, teachers and school leaders over parental rights policies focusing on LGBTQ+ students, limitations on teaching ab...

/ 2 months ago

Legislative Analyst Reports on Highs and Lows of UC Merced’s First 20 Years

A Nov. 7 report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office looking back at UC Merced’s first 20 years finds that the campus in severa...

/ 2 months ago

College Application Deadlines Are Near. What You Need to Know.

College applications are open for the fall 2025 term, and deadlines are looming. Mallika Seshadri EdSource California’s two public ...

/ 3 months ago

Nature’s Classroom: Why Preschoolers Need More Time Outdoors

At a forest school, the roof is the bright blue sky, a cluster of ladybugs flying through the air can turn into a science lesson and the fog...

/ 3 months ago

Candidate Shortage Means Many Californians Won’t Vote for School Boards

Millions of California residents will not have the opportunity to vote for the people representing them on their school boards on Nov. 5 bec...

/ 3 months ago

Bakersfield Prof, Community College Reach $2.4M Settlement in Free Speech Case

Matthew Garrett, a former professor at Bakersfield College, recently settled a lawsuit with his former employer. Emma Gallegos EdSource A...

/ 3 months ago

Is Creativity a Superpower in Early Education?

Singing the ABC song. Learning the days of the week from a nursery rhyme. Making a finger-painted collage of little handprints. Karen D...

/ 5 months ago

Stockton Unified Superintendent Has Been on the Job for a Year. What’s Changed?

Stockton Unified, a mostly poverty-stricken community in San Joaquin County, has become known for its legal troubles, financial issues and s...

/ 5 months ago

Central Valley Struggles to Produce College Grads. Key Programs Are Turning That Around.

A new report delivers bad and good news for the Central Valley. Emma Gallegos EdSource The bad news: The vast majority of parents, 79%, w...

/ 5 months ago

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Apparatus sits on Sepulveda Blvd. as fire burns along Interstate 405, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

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Progress Is Made on a Huge Fire North of Los Angeles While New Fires Erupt in Southern California

A Fresno driver, Marcelo Gaytan, 56 was arrested for DUI after fatally striking a 98-year-old woman and critically injuring an 82-year-old man in a pedestrian collision. (Fresno PD)

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Fresno DUI Suspect Arrested After Crash Kills Pedestrian, Injures Another

Benny Brusso, 56, was arrested Thursday after fleeing from deputies on a motorcycle and found to be a registered sex offender with drugs and copper wire in his possession. (GV Wire File)

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Fresno County Sex Offender Arrested Fleeing on Motorcycle With Drugs

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Trump Signs Executive Order on Developing Artificial Intelligence ‘Free From Ideological Bias’

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Trump Pardons Anti-Abortion Activists Convicted for Blocking Abortion Clinic Entrances

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Fresno Police Seek Public’s Help in Star Pro Smog Burglary Investigation

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