Fresno Unified School District students will have daily live instruction with their teachers when they start the school year with online learning on Aug. 17 — and for all students, from transitional kindergarten through high school, the school day starts at 9 a.m. Their teachers will instruct either from home...
Best Place to Work if You’re A Woman? Check Out Clovis Unified
Clovis Unified School District has made another top 10 list — this time for being one of the nation's best employers for women in 2020. The third annual ranking done by Forbes magazine evaluates businesses or organizations that employ more than 1,000. The magazine partnered with the market research firm...
Central Unified Trustees Decide to Take Another Shot at $120M Bond Measure
Central Unified School District trustees hope the second time will be the charm for a $120 million bond measure and voted 5-1 Tuesday night to put it on the Nov. 3 ballot. In the March primary election, Central Unified's Measure C just missed the 55% voter approval margin needed for...
Valley Children’s Head Doctor Warned of COVID-19 Risk in Reopening Schools
Valley Children's Healthcare chief medical officer Dr. David Christensen was blunt during a recent Zoom meeting with Fresno County school district officials and county health officials about reopening: Based on the current COVID-19 infection and hospitalization conditions, "now is not the time to risk it." Central Unified School District administrators...
Want Kids Back in School? Officials Say Wear a Mask, Wash Your Hands & Control COVID.
Students in the Fresno and Clovis unified school districts will start the new school year next month with online learning, but it's not due to school board decisions. Because Fresno County is one of the California counties on a state watch list for rising COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, a mandate...
Superintendent: New Boundaries, Year-Round Schools Possible if Clovis Unified Bond Measure Fails
Clovis Unified School District trustees voted Wednesday to put a $335 million bond measure on the November ballot, even as trustees and the district's superintendent acknowledged that asking for voters to approve a tax measure during a pandemic is less than ideal timing. But district officials concluded that with steadily...
Parents Get Their Wish. Clovis Students Will Return to Classrooms in August.
For many Clovis Unified students, the new school year will mean returning to classrooms that were suddenly vacated in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The question for trustees at Wednesday night's meeting was whether students would be in class on campus for two days each week or all five....
Central Unified’s School Year Will Start with Online Instruction Only Due to COVID
Central Unified School District officials, with an eye on rapidly rising rates of coronavirus infection in the Fresno area, decided Tuesday night to provide online instruction only when school resumes in August. The decision to resume distance learning only was made after Central and other school district officials on late...
How Clovis Unified Trustees Are Elected Is Under the Microscope
Community activist Chris Milton says Clovis Unified School District is breaking state law and failing to provide true representation to residents by continuing to elect trustees at large instead of by area. A more diverse board, Milton said in a recent open letter to the district posted on Facebook, would...
Football Players Back on the Field at Fresno-Area Schools, But No Tackling Yet
Football practices look considerably different at high schools in the Fresno area this summer as teams adapt to restrictions designed to help protect players from the coronavirus. For now, at least, there's no tackling, no ball-passing, and no contact between players. Coaches are throwing "air passes" — think "air guitar"—...