KYBURZ, Calif. — On a steep mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand in silhouette against a gray sky. “If you can find a live tree, point to it,” Hugh Safford, an environmental science and policy researcher at...
Parents, Kids Join FTA Members on Picket Line While Teachers’ Outrage Over ‘Scab’ Flyer Builds
The sun was barely over the horizon Friday morning when dozens of adults and kids, most wearing bright blue T-shirts and carrying protest signs, began marching in a semi-circle on a sidewalk outside a southeast Fresno Elementary School as loud music blared from a nearby home. Winchell Elementary was the...
Parents, Kids Join FTA Members on Picket Line While Teachers’ Outrage Over ‘Scab’ Flyer Builds
The sun was barely over the horizon Friday morning when dozens of adults and kids, most wearing bright blue T-shirts and carrying protest signs, began marching in a semi-circle on a sidewalk outside a southeast Fresno Elementary School as loud music blared from a nearby home. Winchell Elementary was the...
Drugs Are Ravaging Our Local Schools. Here’s How to Fund Effective Drug Education Programs.
We have a drug issue in our schools. In just 15 minutes, you can purchase any drug on your phone and have it delivered to school before the next class period. High school is a time of learning, growth, and preparation for the future. However, it is starting to become...
Drugs Are Ravaging Our Local Schools. Here’s How to Fund Effective Drug Education Programs.
We have a drug issue in our schools. In just 15 minutes, you can purchase any drug on your phone and have it delivered to school before the next class period. High school is a time of learning, growth, and preparation for the future. However, it is starting to become...
Teachers Union: Subs Won’t Cross Pickets Lines; District Files Injunction
The Fresno Teachers Association announced Thursday morning that Fresno Unified's substitute teachers union has voted not to cross picket lines if Fresno teachers go on strike next Wednesday. The Fresno Area Substitute Teachers Association is a chapter of SEIU Local 521. SEIU spokeswoman Elsa Mejia confirmed that the association members...
Teachers Union: Subs Won’t Cross Pickets Lines; District Files Injunction
The Fresno Teachers Association announced Thursday morning that Fresno Unified's substitute teachers union has voted not to cross picket lines if Fresno teachers go on strike next Wednesday. The Fresno Area Substitute Teachers Association is a chapter of SEIU Local 521. SEIU spokeswoman Elsa Mejia confirmed that the association members...
Will Parents Send Kids to School or Keep Them Home if Fresno Teachers Strike?
If Fresno teachers go out on strike next week, parents of Fresno Unified school kids will have to decide whether to send them to school or keep them home. One of the messages from the union, which parents may hear from some teachers on informational picket lines at schools Friday...
Will Parents Send Kids to School or Keep Them Home if Fresno Teachers Strike?
If Fresno teachers go out on strike next week, parents of Fresno Unified school kids will have to decide whether to send them to school or keep them home. One of the messages from the union, which parents may hear from some teachers on informational picket lines at schools Friday...
Maine’s Governor Says 18 People Killed and 13 Injured in Mass Shootings Wednesday
LEWISTON, Maine — Maine’s governor says 18 people were killed and 13 were injured in shootings in Maine. Gov. Janet Mills made the remarks at a press conference Thursday. A man shot and killed the victims at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston and then fled into the night,...