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Local Schools Inch Closer to Resuming Face to Face Instruction

September 29, 2020

When Fresno County on Tuesday moved into the red-tinged Tier 2 of the state's reopening plan because of lowered coronavirus infection rates, schools got a lot closer to being able to reopen for in-person classes. And once they do, students who play a keyboa...

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Distance Learning Comes with a Learning Curve for Students, Parents, Teachers

Nancy Price

August 19, 2020

Nearly all of Fresno County's 208,000 students have been outfitted with internet access and laptops or tablets for their distance learning, Superintendent of Schools Jim Yovino said Wednesday. But there are ...

Fresno Unified Teachers Want to Know: What’s the Distance Learning Plan?

Nancy Price

July 29, 2020

Fresno Unified officials say the distance learning program provided to its 74,000 students starting just three weeks from now will be markedly different than the one in the final two months of the past school y...

Fresno Teachers Union: Schools Can’t Safely Reopen by Aug. 17, Teachers Shouldn’t Return

Nancy Price

July 14, 2020

Fresno Unified School District schools can't reopen safely by Aug. 17, the district's teachers union says, because of rising coronavirus infection rates in the county and the need to maintain health and safety guidelines set by local, state, and federal health...

Fresno Unified Parents Must Decide by July 31: Campus or Online?

Nancy Price

July 9, 2020

If parents want their kids to attend Fresno Unified School District's online school for the new school year, they will need to opt in by July 31, Superintendent Bob Nelson said Thursday. Parents who don't re...

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Teachers Union: FUSD Should Protect Health Fund in 2020-21 Budget

Nancy Price

June 9, 2020

The Fresno Teachers Association says Fresno Unified School District's proposals to balance the 2020-21 budget could result in higher healthcare costs for employees and will reassign teachers from much-nee...

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FUSD Trustee: ‘Bare Minimum’ of Distance Learning Isn’t Enough

Nancy Price

May 7, 2020

Fresno Unified trustee Claudia Cazares says teachers who have been doing the "bare minimum" as negotiated in the distance learning contract amendment need to do more teaching for their students. "When the bare minimum is being done to outreach to our kids, ...

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Fresno Teachers Handing Out Meals Tonight at Addams Elementary

Nancy Price

April 2, 2020

Dinner tonight for 500 families living near Addams Elementary is being hosted by the Fresno Teachers Association, in conjunction with Live Again Fresno and Quesadilla Gorilla. The free grab-and-go meals prep...

Fresno Teachers Get Their Groove on to Raise Funds for Food

Nancy Price

March 26, 2020

The Fresno Teachers Association has a rock 'n roll solution for several conundrums: How to raise money to help feed people and support local restaurants during the COVID-19 outbreak, and what are we going to do...

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Fresno Teachers Union Grievance Has Potential $150M Price Tag

Nancy Price

February 13, 2020

Fresno Unified's teachers' union says the district has violated its contract by improperly spending millions of dollars — perhaps as much as $150 million over the past three years — to cover retirees' healthcare costs with money that's supposed to be spent onl...

Fresno Unified Virtual Fundraiser Nets $50K for Student Scholarships

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Local Schools Inch Closer to Resuming Face to Face Instruction

Distance Learning Comes with a Learning Curve for Students, Parents, Teachers

Fresno Unified Teachers Want to Know: What’s the Distance Learning Plan?

Fresno Teachers Union: Schools Can’t Safely Reopen by Aug. 17, Teachers Shouldn’t Return

Fresno Unified Parents Must Decide by July 31: Campus or Online?

Teachers Union: FUSD Should Protect Health Fund in 2020-21 Budget

FUSD Trustee: ‘Bare Minimum’ of Distance Learning Isn’t Enough

Fresno Teachers Handing Out Meals Tonight at Addams Elementary

Fresno Teachers Get Their Groove on to Raise Funds for Food

Fresno Teachers Union Grievance Has Potential $150M Price Tag

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