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ACLU Complaint Says Fresno Unified Fails English Learner Families

August 6, 2020

The ACLU of Northern California says Fresno Unified School District violated the civil rights of English learners and failed to follow California Department of Education and district requirements when it failed to remove language barriers that limit parent par...

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What Will Online Learning Look Like This Time for Fresno Unified Students?

Nancy Price

August 3, 2020

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 kindergarte...

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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...

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Fresno Unified Plans to Roll Out Its Own Internet in South Neighborhoods

Nancy Price

July 28, 2020

Fresno Unified students who need the internet for virtual instruction this school year won't have to try to find a shady spot near a Wi-Fi-equipped school bus as they did in the waning weeks of the past school year. Listen to this article: https://d2...

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Could Local Elementary Schools Reopen with Waiver from COVID-19 Closures?

Nancy Price

July 22, 2020

Big Creek Elementary School sits high in the Sierra southwest of Huntington Lake and serves 56 students. Thus far, there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 in the tiny community. "In my opinion, teachin...

Want Kids Back in School? Officials Say Wear a Mask, Wash Your Hands & Control COVID.

Nancy Price

July 17, 2020

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 Cali...

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Central Unified’s School Year Will Start with Online Instruction Only Due to COVID

Nancy Price

July 15, 2020

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...

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 ...

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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McLane’s New Pool Full of Promise, Empty of Swimmers for Now

Nancy Price

July 2, 2020

The water shimmers invitingly over the 11 swimming lanes in the massive blue-tinged pool, which according to a nearby sign has a maximum occupancy of 434. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the brand-new pool at McLane High School in central Fresno has z...

You Have a 'Moral Obligation' to Wear a Facemask: Fresno County's Top Doc

If 100 People Go to a Party in Fresno County, It’s 99% Someone Has COVID-19

A Look at Some Deadly Explosions Involving Ammonium Nitrate

Election Challenge: Safe, Accurate Voting in Pandemic Era

Military Teams Arriving at Valley Hospitals This Week to Combat COVID-19

If 100 People Go to a Party in Fresno County, It’s 99% Someone Has COVID-19

State’s COVID Team Heads to Madera, Will Provide Fresno County Action Plan

Taxpayers Helped Make it, So Why Does Remdesivir Cost $3,200 a Patient?

Colin Kaepernick Has More Support Now, Still Long Way to Go

Big and Booming, Dechambeau Is PGA Tour Must-See TV

Raiders QB Derek Carr: ‘I’m Tired of Being Disrespected’

Lakers Beat Jazz 116-108 to Clinch Top Seed in West

Walters: LA County’s ‘Corridor of Corruption’

Walters: School Reformers Win Major Skirmish

Opinion: Why Biden’s VP Pick Matters

Walters: Should California Borrow More or Tax More?

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

COVID-19 Brings a New Kind of Ramadan for Muslim Community

Campaign Contribution Limit Set for Fresno County Races at $30K

Election Challenge: Safe, Accurate Voting in Pandemic Era

Opinion: Why Biden’s VP Pick Matters

Biden Won’t Go to Milwaukee to Accept Democratic Nomination

ACLU Complaint Says Fresno Unified Fails English Learner Families

What Will Online Learning Look Like This Time for Fresno Unified Students?

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

Fresno Unified Plans to Roll Out Its Own Internet in South Neighborhoods

Could Local Elementary Schools Reopen with Waiver from COVID-19 Closures?

Want Kids Back in School? Officials Say Wear a Mask, Wash Your Hands & Control COVID.

Central Unified’s School Year Will Start with Online Instruction Only Due to COVID

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?

McLane’s New Pool Full of Promise, Empty of Swimmers for Now

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