Central Unified school administrators, community organizations and leaders arrived bright and early this Wednesday morning at Biola Pershing Elementary School to help students stay warm this winter. During the annual Warm for Winter event, elementary students lined up to receive and try on purple sweaters and spirit wear shirts. Serena...
School Trustees Appoint Acting Leader After Central Superintendent’s Arrest
The Central Unified School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint Assistant Superintendent of Education Services Ketti Davis as acting superintendent. Superintendent Andy Alvarado was put on paid leave after his June 3 arrest on suspicion of felony corporal injury on a spouse or co-habitant. The victim was not identified by...
Sheriff: Animal Activist Arrested for Stealing Goat From Central High School West Campus
On Tuesday night, detectives with the Fresno County Ag Crimes Task Force recovered a stolen Boer goat and returned it to a teenage girl who is a student at Central West High School. Detectives arrested 23-year-old Alexandria Fall of Los Angeles, charging her with felony grand theft. She was cited and...
Fresno Unified $240 Million School Bond Gets Strong Support in Survey
Fresno Unified taxpayers appear willing to pay more in property taxes if it means safer, better-equipped, and more up-to-date schools and technology. A survey of 764 district residents likely to vote in the November 2020 election found strong support for $160 million and $240 million bond measure proposals, even though...
Everyone Gets Their Kicks at School's Special Olympics Event
Whenever Julian Lorenzo is on the soccer field, he aims to achieve one of two goals. "Be a winner and to do my best," said Lorenzo, a 7th-grade special education student at Rio Vista Middle School. Lorenzo did both at the school's second annual Special Olympics Soccer event. Special Olympics...
Robotics Club Idea Brings Clean Drinking Water to Central Unified
A Robotics Club discussion at Saroyan Elementary School is changing the way all students drink water at Central Unified. The idea of getting filtered-water stations installed at every school in the district turned into reality when Saroyan Elementary secured a nearly $55,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente for 26 Elkay filtered-water stations....
6th-Grader's Idea Brings Clean Drinking Water to Central Unified
The idea of a sixth-grade student at Saroyan Elementary School is changing the way all students drink water at Central Unified. Ella Newton's idea of getting filtered-water stations installed at every school in the district turned into reality when Saroyan Elementary secured a nearly $55,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente for 26...
What Are Fresno Area Schools Doing To Keep Students Safe?
Student safety is top of mind for Fresno area school districts as they prepare for the return of students from summer break. Security cameras increasingly are on the front lines of defense in preventing mass shootings. But district leaders also are stepping up training for active shooter situations and strengthening...
It's Now Looking Good for Kepler Charter School
In a reversal of fortune, it appears that Kepler Neighborhood School in downtown Fresno will live to teach another day. Meanwhile, things aren't looking good for One & Only Academy proposed within Clovis Unified's boundaries. Fresno County Board of Education trustees will officially decide the fate of the two charter schools...